About a year ago I was caught in a check-out lane in a grocery store and it was progressing slowly. The person at the head of the queue was in her own time and space it seemed and every one else did seemingly not exist. The final straw for everyone observing her was when she fumbled ineptly for her wallet to extract her card which she needed to swipe if she was ever to complete this transaction. Even after that triumphant event she slowly packed away her goods into an as yet unfurled set of bags. Meanwhile the man behind her was being handed goods as they cleared the cash register of the staff member in charge of this process. He then stepped out and around this women and left the building. My reaction to all this was one of seething anger.
Since that event I have always had my card at the ready to pay for my purchases and I use a trolley so that I can move my goods away from the scene with haste. I then take them to the side and pack them into my pack-pack or bags at my leisure. I find that exiting a grocery store whether through a staff assisted or an automated process is so much more enjoyable and far less time wasting. The key here is to anticipate the future and prepare accordingly.
In a post-2020 world the movement of goods and services to you and by you will speed up to a degree not previously experienced by any of us. One metaphor here is that it will be akin the difference of driving a vehicle at 30 mph and 150 mph. Because one's reaction times stay about the same the consequences of not anticipating the next step in the process is so much more important. Having a blow-out at the lower speed [30 mph] is nowhere near the same as experiencing one at the higher speed [150 mph]. The experience of being in those two environments is sharply different. The mind that has been prepared for a high-speed event is totally different to one that has not. The techniques and skills required to maintain command of a vehicle at those higher speeds are not those trained into a novice driver. And when it comes to living with the speed and pressures of a post-2020 world we are all novices.
Richard
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