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Feb 25, 2004

"The pace of our lives governs our experience of the passage of time. And how we move through time is, ultimately, the way we live our lives." --Robert Levine

Pace of Our Lives

To physicists, the duration of a "second" is precise and unambiguous: ~1.2 billion cycles of frequency associated with the energy levels of the isotope cesium 133. But then there's psychological time, the tempo of life. After measuring walking speed, postal speed, and clock accuracy in 31 countries, psychologist Robert Levine came up with an index for "the overall pace of life" -- Switzerland is on top, US is 16th place and Mexico at the bottom.