According to statistics, a person will devote 36 years to sleeping and watching TV. The number of years sleeping will exceed the number of years watching TV by 20 . Over the lifetime, how many years will the person spend on each of these activities? The person will spend years watching $T V$ and years sleeping. (Type whole numbers.)

Step 1 ：Let's denote the number of years spent sleeping as S and the number of years spent watching TV as T. From the problem, we know that:

Step 2 ：1) \(S + T = 36\) (the total number of years spent on both activities is 36)

Step 3 ：2) \(S = T + 20\) (the number of years spent sleeping exceeds the number of years watching TV by 20)

Step 4 ：We can solve this system of equations to find the values of S and T.

Step 5 ：Solution: \(S = 28\), \(T = 8\)

Step 6 ：Final Answer: The person will spend \(\boxed{28}\) years sleeping and \(\boxed{8}\) years watching TV.