EP 2

I needed objective validation, a Time Tutor, and I found one in arnkitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro (the Italian for tomato) – in other words, I found myrn“Pomodoro”.

One day in the classroom on campus where I used to study, I watched my classmatesrnwith a critical eye, and then looked even more critically at myself: how I got myself organized,rnhow I interacted with others, how I studied.

So I made a bet with myself, as helpful as it was humiliating: “Can you study – reallyrnstudy - for 10 minutes?”

Irntried to understand and solve more and more complex problems, to the point of considering therndynamics of team work.

Once the elation from completing my first-year exams had subsided, I found myself inrna slump, a time of low productivity and high confusion.

Once the elation from completing my first-year exams had subsided, I found myself inrna slump, a time of low productivity and high confusion.

After years of teaching the Pomodoro Technique in classes open to the public and inrnteam mentoring, general interest has grown.

Every day I went to school, attendedrnclasses, studied and went back home with the disheartened feeling that I didn’t really knowrnwhat I’d been doing, that I’d been wasting my time.

In that first small step, I found something intriguing in the Pomodoro mechanism.

More and more people are asking what it is andrnhow to apply it, so there’s a need for me to explain the Technique as I conceived it.