| WAS (fast) | IS (slow) |
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Fast food, take out |
Slow food, cooking, dinner parties |
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‘Super’ market, processed food, discounts, shelf life, conveniencve |
Growing vegetables, farmers market, gourmet food, butchers, real ingredients, less packaging, joyful inconvenience and hence quality |
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Get rich quick, money making schemes, flipping –shares & property assets, asset accumulation |
Passion jobs, wealth in doing, not keeping score, grand designs, experience accumulation |
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Instant coffee – isolated ergogenic aid |
Café latte, macchiato, espresso cappuccino – discussion and social facilitation. |
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Cheap, more, value |
Premium, less, gourmet, |
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Doing more, expectations |
Taking time, internalizing |
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Ladder climbing, competition, job hoping |
Ladder building, collaboration, sabbaticals |
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Long hours, skipping meals, avoiding exercise, financial objectives, excuse making |
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Spending less on more |
Spending more on less |
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Pay rates, fringe benefits, promotional opportunities |
Mind growth, real flexibility, independence |
This is some, not all…. but all follow the path. Feel free to add ‘some’
What path is your start up on? The slow path or the fast path?
*reader warning. (none of the above refers to doing reacting slowly in your startup. Just the ’real’ trend of getting our lives back)
