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The advice here is to sit for 20-30 minutes at a time and then take a 2-minute walking break. This sort of schedule happens to correspond nicely with the Pomodo
by dmpatierno 15y ago
The advice here is to sit for 20-30 minutes at a time and then take a 2-minute walking break. This sort of schedule happens to correspond nicely with the Pomodoro Technique, which suggests 25 minutes of work followed by 5-minute breaks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
- gurkendoktor 15y agoThere is even a nice OS X app for that. Moving around is really, really the best thing to do in a Pomodoro break. Every time I check Facebook or mail instead I regret it. The downside is, I never figured out how to apply Pomodoro to research work or other stuff that has no discernible tasks - just feels weird then :(
- reinhardt 15y agoI dunno, slacking off for (at least) 16.67% of time sounds a bit too much to me.
- gjm11 15y agoThe point is that (1) most people are in fact going to slack off for at least that much time, and (2) doing so in a controlled way is actually beneficial to your performance when not slacking off. The only evidence I know for these is anecdotal, but I'll take a substantial body of anecdotal evidence over "sounds a bit too much to me" any day.
- pointyhat 15y agoThat sounds like someone is having a massive laugh at everyone's expense.