Personally, I often use “[Let’s do 25 minutes.

  • He describes it as “Let’s just do one pomodoro.”
  • The purpose of this is to reduce the sense of burden by dividing tasks into smaller pieces.
  • However, there are people in the world who recognize “pomodoro technique” as “a method of repeatedly working for 25 minutes and resting for 5 minutes.
    • Thinking “repeat” undermines the “effect of making the task smaller.”

relevance - Forgetting the objective and repeating only the method


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