By Robert V. Levine
Even though it is difficult to recollect in our clock-driven age, the concept that of time is relative and versatile. Robert Levine issues out cultures feel of time has profound outcomes for an individual's mental, actual, and emotional health. vacationing round the glope, in either earlier and current occasions, he describes "clock time" against either "nature time" - the rhythm of the sunlight and the seasons - and "event time" - the structuring of time round happenings. He argues that by means of studying to embody those 3 varied perceptions of time, via constructing a "multi temporal" procedure, you possibly can get pleasure from a extra versatile and lucrative lifestyles.
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They can be analyzed independently. In the world of social time, however, the lines are less clear cut. But the pace of life people experience goes beyond tempo. The pace of life is a tangled arrangement of cadences, of perpetually changing rhythms and sequences, stresses and calms, cycles and spikes. It may be regular or irregular, and in or out of synch with its surroundings. The pace of life transcends simple measures of fast or slow. It is this overlaying and interconnectedness of tempo with the many dimensions of social time, I believe, that constitutes the pace of life that people experience.
Do you take time to eat three meals a day in a slow and relaxed manner? • Walking speed: Do you walk faster than most people? Do fellow walkers sometimes ask you to slow down? • Driving: Do you get excessively annoyed in slow traffic? When you are caught behind a slow driver, do you sometimes honk or make rude gestures to try to speed them up? 1 12/7/05 11:54 AM Page 21 • Schedules: Are you addicted to setting and/or maintaining schedules? Do you allot a specific amount of time for each activity?
Some people believe that the slow tempo of warm places has an ergonomic explanation-that it results from a general lack of energy. Certainly, anyone who has been through a heat wave knows that high temperatures can wear one down. Others hypothesize that the slowness has an evolutionary/economic sensibility. They argue that people in warmer places don’t need to work as hard. 1 12/7/05 11:54 AM Page 18 pler homes, so why bother to rush? Then there are people who believe that warmer climates simply encourage taking time to enjoy life.