You spend most of your waking hours at your desk.
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Are you spending all your waking hours playing Pokémon Go?
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They get more waking hours in the day without feeling tired.
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You spend about half of your waking hours at your job.
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We spend the better part of our waking hours at work.
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He tried to pass his waking hours without getting into trouble.
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Nearly all of their waking hours, the Tsimane are standing or walking.
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Many of us spend the majority of our waking hours at work.
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We devote most of our waking hours to working for our organizations.
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During an episode, waking hours are characterized by a sense of unreality.
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But as the anniversary approached, flashbacks invaded her dreams and waking hours.
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It's easy to think of our waking hours as blocks of time.
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That means most of our waking hours are spent sitting on our butts.
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If you use an iPhone, Apple probably controls most of your waking hours.
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Cognitive tasks and mood tests were then carried out during their waking hours.
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It kept knocking during sleep, during waking hours, during time of contemplation of self.
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Our normal state—during waking hours—is just one state of consciousness we experience.
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During waking hours, participants were housed in a private room and kept basically sedentary.
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That truly, 15 of my 16 waking hours would be spent in unbearable nausea.
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Joey hasn't yet mentioned Morgan or Jaxon by name during his waking hours, she says.
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I spent so much time fixating on my appearance that it dominated my waking hours.
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How you wake up can have a major impact on your first few waking hours.
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McConville has sometimes used those waking hours to work on "fun stuff" for the game.
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Few waking hours pass during the cadets' term without the band playing in some form.
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The one rule was that they could only stuff themselves during some of their waking hours.
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They fill their children's waking hours with music lessons, organised sport and assorted mind-sharpening activities.
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If all of my waking hours are in pain, what is the point of going on?
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She said she could not quit, and spent her waking hours shoplifting and committing other crimes.
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People who spend most of their waking hours sitting face heightened risks for many chronic diseases.
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I spent most of my waking hours in its grip, oblivious of the world around me.
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A typical person's internet activity peaks during the most common waking hours and crashes after that.
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Many of these viewers desperate, isolated, lonely men who spend most of their waking hours working.
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Essentially, our internal clocks end up set a few hours behind typical sleeping and waking hours.
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After all, your job is where you are going to spend the majority of your waking hours.
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Netflix, a service that you probably use during most of your waking hours, costs $9.99 per month.
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That means we spend about half of our waking hours at work, not including our commute time.
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He thought it was a great idea and spent most of his waking hours making those lists.
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You're spending most of your waking hours in high school, a truly, truly terrible place to live.
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Wheel running is not arduous for mice, he points out, and did not fill their waking hours.
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According to the Atlantic, Americans are still spending most of their waking hours choosing to watch TV.
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For the last two years, Mueller has been a ghostly presence, dominating Washington's waking hours, but never heard.
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As a result, coyotes are eating more nocturnal prey, whose waking hours match up more closely with theirs.
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Afterward, the researchers determined how many waking hours each day the volunteers had spent seated or on foot.
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"We keep the mayor in front of a camera basically all his waking hours," Baccio told the audience.
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August: Movement In August I attempted to not stay seated for more than 30 minutes during waking hours.
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Perhaps people are using Slack for non-work activities because they already spend all their waking hours logged on.
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After all, they spend most of their waking hours making some of the best food in San Francisco, too.
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I devote most of my waking hours to delving into the consequences of digital technologies for society and democracy.
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Each person has to make 250 successful $10 decisions each week—or one $10 decision every 2.8 waking hours.
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And yet some spend more than a fourth of their waking hours checking email, more than any generation surveyed.
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Far too many people spend much of their waking hours obsessed with how to maximize their hours in bed.
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It's also a chance for the brain to clear itself of waste chemicals that build up during the waking hours.
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There were only five hours of daylight that far north, so they had to make the most of waking hours.
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"Most people on our planet spend half of their waking hours building something that is important to them," Hindricks said.
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We should capture as many waking hours as we can by creating 24/7 prospects for social and academic development.
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In fact, I wondered whether this represented the best possible use for cafes: a total break in your waking hours.
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More than half of their life is spent sleeping, and even during waking hours, most sloths just hang there, motionless.
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Those younger than them are spending the majority of their waking hours on social media, which acts as its own bubble.
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Unlike Westerners, who increasingly spend their waking hours glued to chairs, the Hadza are on the move most of the time.
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Research suggests that the average adult spends about three-quarters of their waking hours communicating with other people in some form.
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As a result, they may grow up believing that adulthood is about spending half of your waking hours in complete misery.
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Even animals, for whom sexual urges are inexorably linked to olfactory sense, don't carry this single-minded pursuit through waking hours.
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But for most of his waking hours, Gundogan's work demanded that he was alone, or as close as possible to it.
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He stood naked and painted in the top-floor London studio where he had spent so many of his waking hours.
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Nearly every night they dream of Aleppo, and they spend their waking hours obsessively checking their phones for news on Syria.
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In the dream, I was consumed with guilt, and pretty soon that agonizing feeling spilled over into my waking hours too.
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All of Bourdain's waking hours, including his meals, are meticulously scheduled by a producer for the series, currently in its 11th season.
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Let the light in when you're awake: Lastly, you should get as much light during your waking hours as you possibly can.
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The majority of my waking hours were already filled with an obsession to work, or at the very least thoughts about work.
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A digital-minimalist approach is never going to stick if you're left twiddling your thumbs for 23 percent of your waking hours.
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Those who dedicate most of their waking hours to the climate crisis view the challenges to come with varying degrees of optimism.
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Somehow, I wake up every day and find something marginally less terrifying to do with my waking hours and here we are.
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Or maybe you're at a point in your life when you want work that doesn't monopolize almost all of your waking hours.
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That still comes to 5,398 false or misleading claims, which comes to 6.2 a day, or about once every three waking hours.
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These were hyper real, minutely detailed scripts that played on the walls of their minds for great chunks of their waking hours.
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Ms. Weiner's bittersweet piece made me wonder: How many waking hours of our short lives do we spend worrying about cosmetic "flaws"?
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It's a hot one, sparking strong feelings from people either defending or hating the space where they spend half of their waking hours.
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I was developing a headache that just wouldn't go away, and I felt like I might faint for most of my waking hours.
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Even in my dreams I can't catch a break: I'm laden with guilt for a crime I've never once considered in waking hours.
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Although the battle consumed her waking hours and frustrated her, it was the only thing keeping her from taking her life, Jasmine said.
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But you spend a large portion of your waking hours concerned about your emotional well-being, always trying to ensure you feel good.
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Still, these states tend to produce a spacey quality during waking hours, not the kind that lends itself to tossing off vituperative insults.
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For workers in the doldrums, spending the bulk of their waking hours in a place delivering little joy can become a downward spiral.
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It's not that I couldn't use a massage; I spend most of my waking hours hunched over my computer, curled into a question mark.
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The idea originated centuries ago when men like Benjamin Franklin thought it made economic sense to fuck with our waking hours in the wintertime.
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This is especially important considering many of us spend more waking hours with our colleagues than we do with our own friends and family.
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Although Larry spends half his waking hours at the bottom of a bottle, he hasn't gone soft in the middle—or in the mind.
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Most of her waking hours are now spent recording gameplay, fielding emails, responding to comments, and keeping up to date with other YouTubers' content.
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If security issues haunt your waking hours, tune in to be prepared as Yoav Levy and Ami Dotan discuss the future of cybersecurity threats.
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You know those friends you have—okay, not friends, Instagrammers—who seem to spend most of their waking hours jet setting around the world?
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She was submerged at points: during one year she spent roughly a third of her waking hours at parties connected to the chemsex scene.
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Narcolepsy is a neurological sleep disorder that messes up the sleep cycle, causing people with the condition to be extremely sleepy during waking hours.
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Intermittent fasting also provided a more Zen-like approach to my waking hours, a change that I soon came to realize I desperately craved.
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Glorifying those who sacrifice nearly all of their waking hours at the altar of work harms everyone, from the chief executive to the custodian.
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It's a serious point of contention in my life, considering I spend most of my waking hours outside of my house listening to music.
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The arrangement also allows them, if they choose, to spend most of their waking hours around teammates and others associated with the football program.
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But after years of toiling away her waking hours for a pittance, DeCrescenzo married another Scientologist and became pregnant at the age of 17.
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Amber Christensen watched her husband die over and over again as she replayed the video that has since haunted both her dreams and waking hours.
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Even if you're only drinking bloodies at brunch, you ostensibly have eight or so more waking hours to make up for it and drink water.
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Virtually no one starts out wanting to be a three-joints-per day smoker, spending most of his or her waking hours under the influence.
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As if you didn't cram enough game time into your waking hours, Pokémon is launching a new way to catch 'em all... while you sleep.
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Overall, sedentary behavior accounted for 77 percent of participants' waking hours, or about 113 hours a day, researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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And unlike the employees themselves, they have great influence over the environment and culture in which employees spend a large portion of their waking hours.
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Ms. Munroe dedicates most of her waking hours to volunteering in the chapel, her duties as varied as bookkeeping and helping the priest administer communion.
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To find out, she recruited more than 16,000 female volunteers, whose average age was 72, to wear accelerometers during their waking hours for a week.
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To find out, she recruited more than 16,000 female volunteers, whose average age was 72, to wear accelerometers during their waking hours for a week.
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Charlie had colic and cried five hours a day; all of Ugleholdt's waking hours were devoted to nursing her, comforting her, or tucking her in.
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Scott works 9-5 as a senior designer for Debrett's and spends most of his waking hours outside of work on his "side hustle" — designing geofilters.
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Most of us spend more waking hours in the office than anywhere else — so it's only natural that we want to enjoy our time at work.
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And she had said that a small percentage of people taking the kind of medications she prescribed for me reported having hallucinations during their waking hours.
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To work in an office is to spend a good chunk of your waking hours surrounded by people you never set out to spend time with.
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Sleep scientists suspect that at least some of these reactions represent "mixed states," when mental processes of the slumbering brain leak into the patient's waking hours.
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"Over time, we're spending more and more of our waking hours interacting with the internet or using those services on our mobile phones," Brynjolfsson told CNBC.
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Stephen spent his waking hours on his prized Steinway grand piano, which sat in a makeshift studio just off the main living room of the Paulus household.
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Contemporary society, by contrast, is much less active: Industrial populations spend 54 percent of their waking hours being sedentary, compared to just 10 percent among the Tsimane.
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King was soon spending many of his waking hours with Robbins, traveling the world with him, carrying his luggage, and even sometimes accompanying him to the bathroom.
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And then there's the fact that more research has shown how our bodies respond to front-loading calories during our waking hours versus consuming them later on.
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By the time most kids enter elementary school, they can expect to spend the majority of their waking hours of the next decade or so in school.
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Also, around that time, I was spending the majority of my waking hours in Second Life and other real-time 3D gaming systems, rigging avatars with chatbots.
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In the bait-and-switch of a misleading headline, I woke up to the fact that I was spending most of my waking hours inside something ugly.
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Startlingly, Mr Caulkins calculates that in America more than half of all cannabis is consumed by people who are high for more than half their waking hours.
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Eventually he and other researchers learned that during this state, the brain shifts from low-frequency to high-frequency electrical waves, like those produced in waking hours.
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As someone who apparently sees work as the ultimate purpose in life, his waking hours are spent immersed in saffron, in meetings, in reading, in everyday conversation.
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And yet, those same parents often struggle with the knowledge that their young children spend more waking hours with their nannies than with their mothers and fathers.
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Instead, I spent as much time as I normally do online (all my waking hours), but shifted most of my energy to looking for Trump-free zones.
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If I had hoped to persuade him that I did, in fact, spend most of my waking hours thinking about either math or BRCA, I needn't have bothered.
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But can't we all agree that when the ordeal is over and the sun is suddenly around much more often in our waking hours that life is amazing?
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Let's be honest — most of BTS' dedicated fandom, called ARMY, already spend their waking hours daydreaming about what it would be like to manage the Korean group's careers.
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Chi gives his ballpark estimate as six times or every three or four hours, during waking hours, but "there is a lot of variation of normal," he says.
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They spend two hours a day working out to maintain muscle and bone mass, and the rest of their waking hours are spent working on tasks and experiments.
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So she played no limit, often for eight hours at a time, and spent her remaining waking hours reading into the psychology, economics, and mathematics of the game.
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They traded life in the city for a cabin on Einarson Lake, a remote speck of water amid snow-capped mountains, and spent their waking hours fur trapping.
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It is true that he's released for only a few of his waking hours every day out of that confinement to walk around and be with other people.
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" Selena Gomez: 'My heart is absolutely broken' Dennington believed Loibl "spent most of his waking hours watching Christina on YouTube as well as constantly monitoring her social media accounts.
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And since the guy probably spent most of his waking hours promoting Spider-Man: Homecoming recently, there's no doubt that the croissant fiasco of 2015 came up a lot.
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More than 12,500 people ages 23 to 84 years wore activity trackers to log how many of their waking hours they spent active and how many they spent sitting.
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With sessions starting most waking hours, instructors that interact with you directly and a sense of herd mentality, you feel compelled to dedicate the time to clearing your thoughts.
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"During our waking hours, we have the 'id' which says, 'I want', 'I'm hungry', 'I want sex', 'I want comfort', 'I want warmth' — it's an animal drive," Burke explains.
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We'd travel to see each other, but our waking hours together were totally diminished, and we both spent a lot of time bored while the other person was sleeping.
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Yielding to Trump would mean selling out the suffering of North Koreans, and it could bring Kim closer to the coup he reportedly spends his waking hours worrying about.
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For the scouts who spend their waking hours evaluating and projecting the crude, unrefined basketball abilities of still-growing teenagers, Tatum's mature game was a breath of fresh air.
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You learn that Obama's speechwriter takes vitamin D because he spends his waking hours in a basement office; the scheduler talks about the hassle of arranging a foreign motorcade.
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But a new breed of no-rinse masks can be applied in the morning and left on all day, providing benefits when they'll actually be visible: the waking hours.
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Better Things is, above all, a very funny show about motherhood and the mundane, the snarl of tedium and tenderness that fills the waking hours of a parent's life.
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Noel spent some of her waking hours surfing the internet for furniture sales and benefit websites, they said, while Thomas looked up websites for motorcycle sales and sports news.
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Moments of rage, confusion, terror and paranoia make me feel like an alien; night terrors interrupt my sleep, soak my sheets with sweat; and flashbacks haunt my waking hours.
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At the time, however, I felt sure that each word of the description would remain vivid in my waking hours and make itself visually manifest in my dreams each night.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Wimbledon's head groundsman Neil Stubley spends most of his waking hours worrying about the 18 championship lawns under his command in the weeks leading up to the tournament.
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For now, those like myself who don't like to sleep will have to use a combination of science, diet, technology, and stimulants to have more waking hours of the day.
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Finally, there was a name for all the people who spent their waking hours immersed in the online world of Lady Gaga; one that was getting bigger by the year.
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While past presidents preferred to fly overnight and waste precious few waking hours in transit, Trump often arrives to his destination at night and begins his talks the next day.
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He probably thinks a minute of silence is a minute he is wasting, and spends all his waking hours trying to impress Saira and throwing smarmy one-liners at her.
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I have an iPhone in my pocket almost all my waking hours, and spend an enormous proportion of my time, both at work and at home, looking at a screen.
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Paleo people were hunter-gatherers and spent most of their waking hours walking and running around in search of food, with additional time and effort spent preparing it for consumption.
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Since then he has continued to devote most of his waking hours helping survivors sort through the wreckage of their destroyed homes and find somewhere to stay or park their trailers.
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In our current age of email and smartphones, work has pervaded more and more of our waking hours — evenings, mornings, weekends, vacations — rendering the idea of a fixed workday as quaint.
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Ms. Kaufman did not see a need for one because at the time she wasn't working, and she planned to dedicate her waking hours to the task of rebuilding her home.
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"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the waking hours of the day to making money for money's sake," he wrote in a memoir.
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Sandy A., Elizabethtown, Ky. Dear Heloise: I installed an instant hot water circulating device, with the timer set to waking hours, and I have hot water right away with no waste.
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Because, let's be real: Not many people see you at night (or maybe they do — live your life, in that case), while plenty of folks do see you during the waking hours.
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These modules direct many of our waking hours as we navigate dating scenes, tend to our current relationships, determine what to wear and how to maintain our bodies, and so much more.
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"Every single day, you have so much daylight and you have so many waking hours," said Scott Jennings, a former George W. Bush hand who ran Mitt Romney's Ohio operation in 2012.
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Singapore is known for its tropical climate, but is it codified that a man must spend half of his waking hours (and 100% of his sleeping ones) airing out his upper half?
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We asked him about spending most of his waking hours in the part of Kampala once apparently described as "Tijuana on acid," and what it taught him about sex, class, and stereotypes.
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Daniel Nadler spends most of his waking hours running the technology start-up Kensho, which has become a darling of the financial industry, attracting big investments from Goldman Sachs and venture capitalists.
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As someone who is naturally suspicious of people who don't seem to be experiencing some level of existential anxiety during their waking hours, I have watched my temporary neighbors with deep interest.
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It is a chance to come to terms with the existential fragility that is overlooked in most of our waking hours and that must be faced even by the greatest among us.
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Compared to sitting for less than three of one's waking hours each day, more than 10 hours of sedentary time was tied to an 133 percent increase in risk for developing heart disease.
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For her lightning ascent, Vogel slept in a low-oxygen tent and spent part of her waking hours at her job in a low-oxygen chamber, both made by Hypoxico Altitude Training Systems.
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Nailah, who spent all her waking hours in the hospital, became friendly with some of the nurses, who told her that the surgeon who performed the tracheotomy had been ostracized by his colleagues.
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As is the case with many other residents, most of the Rawbone-Viljoen family's waking hours are spent on an assortment of vessels and water toys on the turquoise waters down the river.
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He spends most of his waking hours in his manufacturing facility in South Central Los Angeles, where he keeps a humble room furnished with a twin-sized bed that adjoins the factory floor.
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But after being hired full-time by the 92nd Street Y as the associate director of dance education in 2015, she started spending most of her waking hours on the Upper East Side.
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I've got 20 minutes to spare and an eight-year-old brother who spends most of his waking hours on YouTube watching Minecraft tutorials, so I decided to take a stroll through Interland.
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Between animal prints of all varieties to nightgowns that beg to be worn during your waking hours, we're starting to feel a little more excited about cooler temperatures (0kay, but maybe just a little).
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If you were offered a nap at any point during the waking hours of the day, you'd be foolish not to take it — and it seems like everyone else is right there with you.
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I was hooked on the fact that I think so many of us spend most of our waking hours at work, and yet very few of us find our jobs really meaningful and motivating.
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They did so by providing steady current, during waking hours, through two electrodes implanted on either side of the thalamus, a deep brain region often described as a central switching center of the brain.
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Last January, senior BuzzFeed News reporter Anne Helen Petersen wrote a sweeping, definitive treatise on how capitalism and a society predicated on optimizing all our waking hours has contributed to a culture of burnout.
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Factor now that people are spending an average of 70 percent of waking hours away from the home, in environments where the most effective mediums to reach them are mobile and out of home.
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"With people spending most of their waking hours on screens, constant exposure to blue light is taking a toll on eyes and health," says Justin Barrett, CEO Healthe, a company that creates eye safe technology.
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Visitors can observe the pandas from above, or from a ground-level restaurant where they can dine while watching the male panda, who spends most of his waking hours scarfing down bamboo, at close range.
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Insomnia, nightmares that repeatedly hauled you out of sleep or barged into your thoughts during waking hours, guilt and sadness, and a constant anxiety about the future — of your finances, your safety, your city, your home.
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Jason and his wife, Carrie Breneman, 36, left their full-time jobs after Torrin's diagnosis, and have spent much of their waking hours at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit to be by their son's side.
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" Rachel Syme reviews the tv series Better Things in "Mom, Interrupted," and how the show is about "motherhood and the mundane, the snarl of tedium and tenderness that fills the waking hours of a parent's life.
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It's all about meetings, deadlines, impossible tasks, scary or clueless bosses and, above all, the people in the next cubicle, with whom we spend most of our waking hours, even when we're trying to avoid them.
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As you take out your sweat-encrusted earbuds and put them on the nightstand, you wonder: Are you damaging your hearing by spending most of your waking hours with two miniature speakers stuffed in your ears?
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Every bartender worth his bitters has a favorite hangover cure—when you spend half your waking hours dishing out liquid headaches, you better know how to mix up a solution to the problem you helped create.
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So we can all spend our waking hours fretting about (and more accurately overthinking) its fate or we can wake up to the reality that the fundamental economic backdrop is pretty darn good even without it.
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He sleeps only about five hours a night, works most of his waking hours and jumps on the Metro to get around the Washington, D.C., area, from his office to the Capitol and the White House.
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"I'm pretty devastated," said Mr. Gren, 2003, a manager of an online entertainment business in Krakow, Poland, who has spent almost all of his waking hours since Friday looking for ways to reclaim his digital data.
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Before then, she had been spending her waking hours with Howie Zeimer, who lived down the hall, the couple no closer to marriage than when they had announced their intentions a year and a half earlier.
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Between walking, feeding, exercising, training and other care, you should expect to spend at least five (waking) hours with your dog a day, said Sandra DeFeo, the executive director of the Humane Society of New York.
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Sometimes this condition is not apparent during waking hours, but reflux may occur during sleep, resulting in inhalation of a bit of regurgitated stomach contents or causing a reflex that constricts the airways, Dr. Edelman explained.
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Some experts believe that sleep reduction gadgets will intensify the planet's income inequality problem, because only wealthy people will be able to afford them and can spend those extra waking hours working, making the rich even richer.
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It had become clear to others that by the end of her tenure Ms. Hicks was exhausted by West Wing infighting and the daily grind of spending most of her waking hours on call to the president.
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Tagged by President Trump as "17 angry Democrats," they have shown themselves to be typical, if harried, government lawyers, staying at the hotel opposite the courthouse to devote most of their waking hours to trying the case.
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Like anyone else with a desk job, I spent the majority of my waking hours peering into a computer, typing and tabbing through the days, the web browser a current of digital digression running beneath my work.
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The more you use social media in the way it's designed to be used — persistently throughout your waking hours — the more your brain learns to crave a quick hit of stimulus at the slightest hint of boredom.
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It's so much to keep up with that even those of us, who spend all our waking hours sifting through the internet, have a hard time remembering what happened ten days ago, much less ten years ago.
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Though it might seem sexier to focus on things like love horoscopes and compatibility, you likely spend most of your waking hours at work, and your performance there can have a big impact on your quality of life.
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As a junior corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a law firm in New York, John Bick remembers spending most of his waking hours poring over contracts looking for clauses that could complicate or kill off a deal.
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But here's the thing: The decisions you make in the morning can either set you up for success and encourage you to make healthy choices for the rest of your waking hours or seriously sabotage your overall wellness.
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With so many waking hours dedicated to arcane guidelines about what does and doesn't constitute a man, I couldn't help but wonder where these paragons of masculinity find the time to live the manly lives of their dreams.
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But several hours of physical activity a day leave multiple waking hours open, and the researchers began to wonder recently whether the ways in which the Hadza spend their downtime might be contributing somehow to their well-being.
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In a time of economic precarity, environmental chaos and racial protest, when many of us spend the majority of our waking hours thumbing screens, there is something comforting and even restorative about art that sinks into the floor.
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Andrew Lumish of Land O' Lakes, Florida, spends most of his waking hours scrubbing down the tarnished and moss-covered tombstones in historic cemeteries around Tampa, exposing the essential information of a life story just waiting to be rediscovered.
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A lot of Game of Thrones fans are still slightly upset that George RR Martin took time to write a 700-page book of Targaryen history, when he should be spending all waking hours finishing The Winds of Winter.
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The school of thought posits that, when we spend our waking hours bottling up anxiety over certain issues, our dreams act as a release valve for those worries while we're subconscious so that the anxiety doesn't compound over time.
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Whether you're a repeat snoozer, an early riser, a long shower in the morning, or a dash out of the door kind of morning person, how you start your day often sets the tone for the rest of your waking hours.
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Natalie O'Neill writes: Some experts believe that sleep reduction gadgets will intensify the planet's income inequality problem, because only wealthy people will be able to afford them and can spend those extra waking hours working, making the rich even richer.
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They cobble together all their pennies for studio time, funnel all their waking hours and energy into writing songs they think other people will like and then they try to get record deals and release those songs into the world.
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They had dedicated their waking hours (and some sleepless ones) to developing a mattress that could ship in a box and that was undeniably comfortable, but they didn't want to be a "mattress company," they wanted to be a sleep company.
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As we sit here in the waking hours of another government shutdown, the last one still visible in our rearview mirror, let me assure those who think our country is in need of a good shutdown: there is no such thing.
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Although there is clearly value to unfocused activity — what Professor Lightman calls the free-grazing mind — to get unstuck, there is no evidence that for most people it makes sense to dedicate anything like half our waking hours to such musing.
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On the Verge At an age when most kids spend their waking hours playing video games, the ceramist Marc Armitano Domingo — not yet in high school, and living in Northern California — was learning a 15th-century instrument and yearning to take Communion.
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By now, Big Tech is following a familiar pattern: launch in a single lane, expand, kill competition, capture more and more of your users' waking hours, kill more competition, expand more, and all the while deaden any public suffering with free services.
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"We obviously didn't invent techno, but we're taking a different approach," Nikolaj says when I meet him at his studio in Copenhagen's Nordvest neighborhood, where he spends most of his waking hours, a couple of months prior to the KPH Volume rave.
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But in both cases, if you concentrate those steps into a single session of exercise and then spend the rest of your waking hours slumped in a desk chair or in front of a television, you will be more sedentary than active.
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According to recent estimates, most school-age children in the United States sit for more than eight hours a day, while children as young as 2 or 3 years of age can be sedentary for 90 percent or more of their waking hours.
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If I spliced all my waking hours in New Orleans onto a continuous reel, it would play like footage from an Arctic observatory in winter: 20-some hours of darkness, then a paltry bit of daylight before the next 20-hour night.
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Most of us now spend our waking hours sitting at desks plugged into a computer, squeezing in time for exercise — making that a job, as well — and packing our schedules with "required" social activities, like team-building exercises, networking events, and school fundraisers.
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Most mornings, especially since the news of the shooting in El Paso reached me, I wake up sore, my body stiff with pain from clenching my jaw and remaining tense for hours, not just during my waking hours but even in my sleep.
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A vast majority of our waking hours are filled not with witty jokes or brilliant thoughts or epic feelings but with tiny, private mind-motions — thoughts that are hardly even thoughts at all, that don't rise to the level of sharing with another human being.
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Then there's the topic of their very diligent self-care routines: Cats spend a significant part of their waking hours using their sandpapery tongues to tend to their fur, and it's not just so they look well-groomed in your next Instagram — the hygienic benefits are plenty.
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Midway through the game—which, with schools-off family time taking up most of my waking hours, became my go-to bedtime entertainment for late December, perfectly suited as it is to bite-size sessions—I found my curiosity piqued beyond the confines of the fictional hotel.
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" Caulkins of Carnegie Mellon University put it another way: "At some level, we know that spending more than half of your waking hours intoxicated for years and years on end is not increasing the likelihood that you'll win a Pulitzer Prize or discover the cure for cancer.
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Calling their movement "digital wellness," some behavioral scientists and former Silicon Valley developers have begun trying to counterprogram all those news alerts, friend requests and updates crowding our waking hours, and they're using fire to fight fire — creating apps that try to put users back in control.
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Having got the measure of retail, he starts a millinery business using the name William J. (The omission of the last name was an attempt to minimize the cringings of his conventional family.) Designing, fabricating and selling hats instantly consumes his waking hours, with one major exception: fancy-pants costume parties.
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As has been covered on many occasions by writers more journalistically inclined than I, there is now a pretty well-trodden path from the online fringes of the far right directly to the cable news network our demented big boy in chief spends 60 percent of his waking hours watching.
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It's silly to me that Beto spends like half his waking hours hopping on the countertops of coffee shops across Iowa, but—and I assume this is part of the point—I am enjoying the mental image of Trump wheezily humping himself up onto a table at a Ruth's Chris in Ottumwa.
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"As our workday expands to engulf the majority of our waking hours thanks to technology, you can be at dinner, put the kids to bed and then hop back on the laptop and work for an additional three to five hours," says Scott Birnbaum, founder of venture capital firm Red Sea Ventures.
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I spent the rest of my waking hours hanging flyers for my life-coaching business on every bulletin board at every Starbucks in Dallas every day, working with the early clients those flyers brought me, and trying to piece enough money together to pay my rent and create the life I wanted.
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As he has put it, beyond the fact that pot use has been correlated with a wide variety of negative outcomes in terms of physical and mental health, the real issue is that more than half of marijuana is consumed by people who are high more than half of all their waking hours.
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Much like your bank is now doing Mental Health Awareness day posts while damaging your mental health all year around by charging you extortionate fees for going over your overdraft, a huge part of the emerging sleep industry is interested in the importance of restorative sleep only inasmuch as it leads to more work during your waking hours.
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The aching joints, the creaking backs, the stench of failure — this is reality, this is a future we all face, but who on earth goes clubbing to confront the deeply depressing facets of life that we can barely bring ourselves to think about during our regular waking hours, let alone at 4am in a room full of people in varying states of disrepair?
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On the hate side: the prose can be extremely clumsy, as it is in this paragraph where teenage protagonist Wade Watts describes the virtual car he constructed for himself in the vast online world where he spends most of his waking hours: The DeLorean came outfitted with a (nonfunctioning) flux capacitor, but I'd made several additions to its equipment and appearance.
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Speaking of Sam's time in the library, that early montage of his life of drudgery — emptying chamber pots and reshelving books and eating horrible meals — is a highlight of the episode, thanks largely to the clever, enjoyable work from the show's editing team, which both gives a playful rhythm to Sam's time at the Citadel and neatly boils down how horrible most of his waking hours can be.
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Carr concludes: "Phone makers like Apple and Samsung and app writers like Facebook and Google design their products to consume as much of our attention as possible during every one of our waking hours, and we thank them by buying millions of the gadgets and downloading billions of the apps every year ... "As strange as it might seem, people's knowledge and understanding may actually dwindle as gadgets grant them easier access to online data stores.
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Around that story, director Mark Osborne has built a frame narrative that owes more to Pixar's Up and the stories of Roald Dahl than to the Saint-Exupéry fable: It's the tale of an overworked little girl, forced to spend every second of her waking hours studying for an honors academy, who befriends the narrator of the original book, a dotty old man (voiced by a grizzly Jeff Bridges) who claims to have once been a world-traveling aviator.
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