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Monday, 14 April 2025, 21:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 35

The Telegraph

But what if you could engineer the perfect day? Not by luck, or with crystals, but with actual science? A new study published by researchers at the University of British Columbia analysed data from the American Time Use Survey, which recorded how thousands of people spent their time across more than 100 activities.

By comparing these patterns with whether participants rated their day as “better than typical,” they were able to pinpoint the building blocks of a good day.

Their conclusion? There’s a formula for a truly joyful day.

BDE = 6h family + 2h friends + 1.5h socializing + 2h exercise + 1h eating/drinking – work >6h – TV >1h – commuting >15min

OR

BDE = FAM₆ + FR₂ + SOC₁.₅ + EX₂ + EAT₁ – WRK₆ – TV₁ – CMT₀.₂₅

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35 Comments on Have a Nice Day

  2. I guess for a Brit (secular) woman, this formula works……..for me, not so much.

    My ideal day is not so rigid. We can throw out the usual; a good night sleep, a good workout and good food, these are a given for just about everyone. I can even dismiss the socializing (more a guy thing), somedays I spend it with friends and family but other days, its just me, neither moves the needle either way.

    If my day was productive and purposeful, did I accomplish something, did I make progress (not perfection) in those endeavors I value, did I learn something, and am I keeping my mind right in moving towards both virtue and theosis. If all these boxes are checked at the end of the day, my day was “nice”.

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  3. Collectivist claptrap. The pursuit of happiness is an individual pursuit. An essential element of your perfect day may make me want to go back to bed and sleep until tomorrow.

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  4. I’m old!
    A good day is when I’m able to make it up and down the stairs to the second floor without pain and talking to God or using profanity. It’s usually one or the other.

    And I haven’t even started doing the yard work this year yet.

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  5. Wow, that’s quite a useless formula. I set goals/accomplishments every day. Her formula reads like someone who is in assisted care living facility. I leave nothing at the gym. Meaning I give it everything I’m capable of. That’s auto pilot. But the day to day tasks the demand attention will make you or break you. I attack them aggressively. And sleep well at night, Suzy Walker should follow my old ass for a week. She left out porno worthy sex. No I’m not joking.

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  6. “I’m old!”

    I know how old you are. Maybe you should stop using that as an excuse. Just sayen. Of course unless you lead a very unhealthy life style up to this point. And even that’s no longer an excuse. I hate quitters.

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  7. Clearly the nerd who thought up that formula did not know my family. 6 hours with my family would assure that you become the victim of assault and possible larceny… and rape if my uncle Bernard showed up.

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  8. HERE’S WHAT I WROTE TO GUIDE MY DAYS:

    USE TODAY AS A BENCHMARK, TOMORROW AS A GOAL

    STRIVE TO DO BETTER TOMORROW THAN YOU DID TODAY, IN PERPETUITY

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  9. 5 hours of sleep a night? I’m afraid I need almost twice that. 2 hours every day with friends. I like my friends and all, but 2 hours every day seems like a burden. And what’s an hour and a half of socializing if you’ve already spent 2 hours of time with friends? I hope no one got paid for putting together such useless crap!

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  11. SHIT!, I’m disappointed in yous guys…..I’m thinking’ a good day is Jennifer Aniston and Jenny McCarthy making me the center of a love sandwich….

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  15. Has there ever been anything useful coming out of a university “think tank”?

    Apply this formula to an early 20th Century Pennsylvania coal miner:

    1H family – quarreling with wife who tries really hard to keep a clean establishment when her coal-dust covered husband gets home at 6 pm. Both are right and trying to do the best for their little ones.

    2H with miner friends drinking whiskey in a nearby saloon to help forget about the dangers and scant wages of being a coal miner.

    1/4H socializing + 9H exercise in the mine digging and hauling coal.

    15 minutes for eating/drinking lunch in the mine. 15 minutes eating evening meal, usually consisting of oatmeal

    1/2H – Looking and drooling at French Postcards handed around by friends in the mine

    15 minutes commuting by elevator to 2.000 feet below the surface.

    1H feeling chest pains in the evening just before bedtime and coughing up black bile from the lungs.

    Life was good.

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  20. I’m retired, so every day is a good day. Took up metal detecting where I live, and on spring-fall RV trips to the beach. I’ll walk 4-6 miles a day, swim detector, dig holes. Haven’t felt this good since I was a kid, and I’ve found some incredible stuff. Replaced smoking with vaping in 2012, and haven’t had a cold since. 🤔

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  22. A good day is to scatter my enemies and drive them before me. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to my bosom his wives and daughters.

    It’s either that or to put in a good day’s work, read something, learn something, exercise some, then have a good bourbon and a cigar and hit the hay. I’m kind of on the fence about what constitutes a good day.

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  23. Hmmmm, I think a good day would be to be able to tune into the security cams at CNN and watch them throw a blanket over Dana Bash and walk her back to her stall after the broadcast….

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  25. Bad_Brad MONDAY, 14 APRIL 2025, 21:53 AT 9:53 PM

    Call me anything you wish. When the replacement parts start needing replacing and you don’t want to go on the table anymore, it doesn’t get better. Certainly haven’t gone through anything close to your difficulties, but think I’m up to fifteen surgeries from taking such good care of myself. Then too, one of my other friends is up to thirty-five.
    More power to you!
    Going to the gym ain’t in the cards for this whiney old man (closer to eighty than seventy-five).

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  26. I don’t know about perfect days, but I know what the perfect date is: April 24th. It’s not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket. ~”Miss Congeniality”

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  27. Anymounse — I’m with you! I thank God I haven’t needed any replacement parts yet, and I don’t begrudge anyone who is up to it, but I’m already beyond blessed to have come through cancer by His Grace. Every new day is a miracle to me.

    I know fear strongly motivates a never-ending quest to keep death at bay, but I can’t understand why anyone wants to struggle against relinquishing this old jalopy for that new car smell. I’m have no sentimental attachment to failing brakes, oil leaks, dimmed headlamps, frayed belts, burnt spark plugs, a seized transmission, and all the rest. (apologies for the car analogy)

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  28. Tim Bukto — Blessings on your day! I’m glad I wasn’t drinking my coffee when I read your miners’ comment! Too funny! Especially the French post cards!

    I’ve always thought Fur should turn the “best of” IOTW threads/commentary into a book. It would sell.

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  29. A good day is when nothing bad happens, all chores get finished, nothing breaks (or something broken that’s been bothering me gets fixed), no one who is irritating calls or visits, the company is gone, the kids have only happy news to report, the weather is nice, the house is clean, and I make a lot of money.

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  33. AbigailAdams
    Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 10:41 at 10:41 am

    “I’ve always thought Fur should turn the “best of” IOTW threads/commentary into a book. It would sell.”

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