I’ve been doing a 30 minute cycle that’s fixed to the wall clock, the breaks always starts at **:00 and **:30. I have vague notions about training my brain to follow some sort of attention cycle with the fixed timepoints.
It’s not possible for me to browse the web for five minutes and then stop, so I just generally stand up, stretch, and go get some water for the break. The half-hour breaks do double duty as ergonomic stretching reminders.
I’ve known about the Pomodoro technique for some years, but haven’t found it consistently awesome. When my productivity was sufficiently bad, the tasks I procrastinated on felt too unpleasant to spend even the 25 minutes on. When productivity is good, I tend to just power through things and ignore the breaks. Enforcing the breaks might serve to sustain long-term performance during a good productivity run.
Someone on Hacker News had the interesting idea that working in 25 minute chunks with breaks in between could serve as training for entering flow quickly and on demand, since you can’t futz around setting the mood for 40 minutes before getting into the actual work.
Someone on Hacker News had the interesting idea that working in 25 minute chunks with breaks in between could serve as training for entering flow quickly and on demand, since you can’t futz around setting the mood for 40 minutes before getting into the actual work.
Yes, this is something I was wondering about. Has anyone else relevant experience re: Pomodoro and getting into flow?
I’ve been doing a 30 minute cycle that’s fixed to the wall clock, the breaks always starts at
**:00and**:30. I have vague notions about training my brain to follow some sort of attention cycle with the fixed timepoints.It’s not possible for me to browse the web for five minutes and then stop, so I just generally stand up, stretch, and go get some water for the break. The half-hour breaks do double duty as ergonomic stretching reminders.
I’ve known about the Pomodoro technique for some years, but haven’t found it consistently awesome. When my productivity was sufficiently bad, the tasks I procrastinated on felt too unpleasant to spend even the 25 minutes on. When productivity is good, I tend to just power through things and ignore the breaks. Enforcing the breaks might serve to sustain long-term performance during a good productivity run.
Someone on Hacker News had the interesting idea that working in 25 minute chunks with breaks in between could serve as training for entering flow quickly and on demand, since you can’t futz around setting the mood for 40 minutes before getting into the actual work.
Yes, this is something I was wondering about. Has anyone else relevant experience re: Pomodoro and getting into flow?