External Interruptions People who work in social environments can be interrupted: your study partner asks you to explain a paragraph or suggests going to a movie after dinner; a phone call [...]
Objective II: Cut Down on Interruptions The length of a Pomodoro, 25 minutes, seems short enough to make it possible to resist being distracted by various kinds of interruptions. But experience [...]
The Pomodoro Technique 3. Objective I: Find Out How Much Effort an Activity Requires The traditional Pomodoro is 30 minutes long: 25 minutes of work plus a five-minute break. At the beginning of [...]
The Context Who hasn’t experienced anxiety when faced with a task that has to be finished by a certain deadline? In these circumstances, who hasn’t felt the need to put off that task or fallen [...]