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How do you guys feel about the Pomodoro Technique? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by shapis@lemmy.ml to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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I've been trying it out recently to some degree of success, finding the right intervals was the hard part, 25-5 feels like absolute torture to me.

Is anyone else giving it ago?

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[–] Shou@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't work for me. The breaks break my focus entirely.

What did work was "if I can study for 20min, I will have studied enough for today." Which sometimes followed with hyperfocus resulting in studying for a time. 20min or 2hours were both victories in my book.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What did work was "if I can study for 20min, I will have studied enough for today."

I've had mixed results with this approach. On one hand, the constant interruptions don't work at all for me. But it's an uphill fight to really feel like that 20 minutes (or whatever) is "enough." I often feel like if I start, I have to finish, or else I risk not picking it back up again. It's frustrating and makes me want to put my head through a wall.

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

That "I have to finish" only made me more reluctant to start. Was able to drop it by learning how to let go of perfectionism.

It's better to do 20min quality, is better than nothing or 7hours of unfocussed slogging.