![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The gist of Cirillo’s technique is to use the timer for 25-minute intervals of concentrated work, followed by a five-minute break, and then take a longer break after you do a string of four short tomato bursts. How to hack the week so any day is your favorite day (even Monday) Courtesy Everett CollectionĬREDIT: 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Julie Andrews, 1965, TM and Copyright ©20th Century-Fox Film Corp. The name is the Italian word for tomato, which is the shape of a once popular kitchen timer in his native Italy. In the 1980s, while I was wasting countless hours playing video games, listening to my Walkman and riding my bike without a helmet, an entrepreneurial college student turned productivity expert named Francesco Cirillo came up with a time management method he named the Pomodoro Technique. What I came up with was a time cup, a way to capture handfuls of time before they evaporate. And much of the action is during an alternative dystopian timeline I hope to escape from, which is also the plot of “Back to the Future Part II.” But I now have more control than I did. Time is still, for the most part, shifting back and forth and up and down. I also learned that someone else had already come up with a similar idea. This whole time problem led me to a simple hack I’ve been using to wrest control of my days in the service of certain activities and projects I want to accomplish. Whether it’s home improvement, work projects, something creative or just reading a book, we’re hungry for concrete accomplishment. Then there is the collective, or self-induced, pressure to be productive right now, to make the most of the extra time we have because we lack commutes, social obligations and the regular schleps that gobbled so much of our pre-pandemic hours. Inspirational quotes to get us through the coronavirus shutdown ![]()
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