Abstract Time Unit

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When you don’t use the Pomodoro Technique, you have many tasks to do, and your teammates or your client wants to know when you’re going to be done with them. Often that creates problems.

Predicting how long something will take and then realizing that your guess is counted as a promise creates anxiety. The problem is that you don’t know exactly how long the activity will take, and you will be punished—by, for example, missing a client’s expectations—if you don’t live up to your prediction. Anxiety reduces motivation and productivity.

As you know, in the Pomodoro Technique, a single Pomodoro is 25 minutes of effort. It’s an indivisible ...

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