“I put two fingers on my wrist and counted my pulse: seventy-two beats in one minute.”
From Latin pulsus, meaning “a beating”, from pellere, “to beat or drive”. The same root gives us the pulse in music — the beat you can feel.
Find your pulse with two fingers, count the beats for 15 seconds, then multiply by 4. Tell someone your number.
💬 If a slower beat can mean a stronger heart, what else in life looks slower but is actually stronger?