Quite interesting to me how different people seem to have a deeply ingrained personal speed setting, and how much this can vary.

Like the default/natural speed at which they'll walk, talk, do the dishes, probably read. 

On the slow end, there are some people where this is very obvious, especially if you're walking/biking with them somewhere.

On the fast end, it can be impressive but also jarring. Certainly better to be fast than slow though. 

I'm very curious what the source of this default speed is in the biology. Heart rate? Cognitive capacity?

There's a bunch of articles/old studies about walking speed being correlated with different cities, e.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-21/why-people-in-cities-walk-fast

So sounds more cultural (people change after they move) or maybe design (how narrower roads promote slower driving vs stroads).

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Maybe in some cases, but there are also definitely people with their very own speed. 

Visited my friend on the Sunshine Coast recently, dude walks insanely fast.

On the other hand, there are people in my own metropolis, who despite having lived here for many years, move quite slowly.

New skill I've been learning is how to vary my velocity depending on who I'm with

Could be metabolism. Smaller creatures have a higher rate of metabolism and live life faster but also die earlier.

Fascinating how individual default speed varies, wondering what determines it