Pomodoro technique was founded by Francisco Cirillo on 1992. So what is the role of pomodoro technique? It is embodied in helping individuals or teams to improve their time management ability and make the results of each task meet expectations.
Pomodoro technique was written by the founder of pomodoro technique. After the publication of this book, this working method has been popular all over the world for more than 30 years. It is regarded as a "magical time management method" by friends all over the world who are keen on GTD(GTD is short for getting things done). This method has also been tested by many people, and 2 million people think it is very effective.
Brief introduction of the author
Francisco Cirillo Yu, the founder of pomodoro technique, is also an entrepreneur, software designer and time management training lecturer. Over the years, I have been training in time management all over the world, and now I teach at Berlin School of Economics and Law. In addition, he is also committed to researching tools that can help improve individual and team efficiency.
Brief introduction of book introduction content
The introduction of the book will introduce the book through five parts: reading difficulty, personal views and understanding, reading suggestions, main points of each chapter and excerpts from original golden sentences.
Difficulty in reading
The content of this book is suitable for everyone. It can be considered as simple reading without any reading difficulties. Several conceptual terms will be put forward in the book, which may be difficult to understand at the moment, but it will not affect your understanding of the following content.
Views and understanding
This book is a real reference book. The advantage for you is that you can learn a practical management skill immediately after reading it. After reading this book, I used this method and watched the completion of the project that would have been delayed, which really gained a lot of sense of accomplishment. After this book introduces time management, I have another understanding of my personal life style, that is, to control my limited time as much as possible. Before this method was really implemented, I often felt inefficient when I was working, studying and playing, and I didn't learn anything, and I was not at ease when I was playing. Then look at the time, and you will start to be anxious again, or you will start to procrastinate when you find that you can't finish it. When I read the author's introduction to working methods and some of his experiences, I know that "time is passing by, and it will never wait for you unless you do something." This book not only makes me control my work, study and play well, but also makes me dare to face difficult things, dare to challenge anything new, and want to fill my day with' x' bit by bit.
For example, I just read how this method is used. After I saw this method, I started the plan of this book. I used to have a plan, such as how many pages I planned to read in a day, how many days I finished reading, and so on. But I still won't do it, because when I look at the time, I think I have enough time and I think I can read so much content in as much time as possible, so I will put it off until the end of the day, look up at the time and see how long it is left, thinking, "No, no, I want to read it right away", but when I look at it at the moment, I will become more and more anxious and always want to finish it quickly, which is also psychological.
If you have such doubts or similar doubts, read this book, look at the cases put forward by the author and look at some personal experiences of the author, and you will get rid of many bad habits and nervousness. Doing a good job in personal or team time management, planning at work, planning in study, and implementing it bit by bit is the greatest responsibility for your life.
Suggestions for reading this book
When reading this book, you can use the method of quick browsing, and it is best to finish reading this book in one breath, so as to truly master the usage of this time management tool. Another purpose of breath is to hope that you don't give up halfway. Some people put it on hold after reading it, then slowly forget it, and then you still can't learn this method.
Because this is a reference book, some people will think about whether to actually operate it and follow it. My advice here is that you can follow the most basic time management methods first. Try to use this method after reading this book, and then explore a more advanced method.
The main points of each chapter
The book is divided into four parts, the basis of part 1, the achievement of individual goals, the achievement of part3 and team goals, and part4.
Part 1 talks about people's insensitivity to time and all kinds of bad results brought about by unreasonable time control. This part also puts forward the concept of "rheology". Next, please take a look at this dense explanation: rheology refers to the abstraction of time and the side of space, resulting in the habit of measuring time in seconds, minutes and hours; Rheology is also the idea of representing time on one axis, just as we use coordinate axes to represent various dimensions of space; Rheology is a time-consuming concept, an example between two points on the time axis; Rheology is also the concept of being late. ) and suggest that change will make us anxious. Some problems that can be solved by tomato cultivation techniques are introduced. It has been suggested that the establishment of this working method is based on three key elements, namely, a different view of time, better use of the brain and simple and uncomplicated tools. It means that a qualified pomodoro technique should have these three conditions.
The second part introduces how to use pomodoro technique through six objectives. We can also make our plans through these six goals. The first goal is to calculate the time required for the activity, the second goal is to reduce interference, the third goal is to predict how much effort is needed for the activity, the fourth goal is to make our tomato time more efficient, the fifth goal is to make a timetable, and the sixth goal is to clarify personal promotion goals. Following these six goals, we can actually design a plan. These six goals seem to be macro, but the content inside will be particularly micro. The content of goal one is completely described from the actual process of planning, starting, completing tasks, resting, starting and completing tasks. In addition, the skills of time estimation and the human value of calculating the total cost of completing a project when many people cooperate are given. The second goal introduces the classification of interference, which can be roughly divided into two categories, one is endogenous interference and the other is exogenous interference. The author also answers how to solve endogenous interference and exogenous interference through specific scenes, and changes your views on endogenous interference and exogenous interference through past experience to make you less disgusted, which can solve these things well. The content of goal three is mainly to exercise your ability to predict the time of a project or a plan. Don't underestimate your time estimation ability. All products or development of large factories must have this ability. Given the requirements of a project, it is best to evaluate the development or product together at this time. If you often have no time limit for what you do, you will find that you actually do very little. Because the estimation of time is often inaccurate, there are special circumstances such as early completion and overfulfilling, so the author provides tomato recording methods for different situations. The fourth goal seems to be to make tomatoes more effective. In fact, the author's original intention is to hope that you can continue to work better and produce more efficient methods in the review process by reviewing the previous content. I hope you can continue to work in this way and put forward the importance of setting tomato time group reasonably. The author puts forward the importance of timetable, that is, you must not have too much tomato time at your disposal in a day. For example, you can only work eight hours a day, but the time you allocate to these eight hours is more than eight hours, which is wrong. And as long as you have done these allocated time, you must not do it again, because it is too late. If you have done it today, you should try to optimize your schedule in the future, or if you really have a lot of time, you can try to advance the simple things you want to do the next day. The sixth goal is to optimize our own working methods. We need to know that our ultimate goal through pomodoro technique is to manage our time, but other goals can be to optimize our time, such as improving our work efficiency. In the past, it took two tomato hours to hold an important meeting, so we must find ways to change it into 1 tomato hour to improve work efficiency.
The third part explains how to apply pomodoro technique to the team. In today's society, most goals are difficult for individuals to achieve. We need the help of others to succeed. They can be our partners, family members, work partners, people who have worked together for several years or occasionally. Working together allows us to evolve and acquire knowledge. It is pointed out that unreasonable project time planning will make the whole team feel depressed and anxious and destroy the team atmosphere. Then, after the team is frustrated and anxious, over time, the team members will circle around the goal, blame each other and doubt each other, and finally get exhausted. Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, we should make use of pomodoro technique. There are several advantages for the team to use pomodoro technique: 1. Reduce the friction of members. 2. Reduce unnecessary meetings. 3. Protect the team from interference. 4. Help the team complete the set goals and tasks on time. In order to cooperate with the team, pomodoro technique's goal should be defined as the team goal from the original personal goal, namely: 1. Determine how many hours a task requires. 2. Reduce interference. 3. Predict the time spent on each task. 4. Improve the tomato time effect. 5. Make a timetable. 6. Define the team's personal improvement goals. Then how to use the tomato time for the team, that is, "one team and one tomato time". For example, in a PGC content team, a leader said that 20 articles will be published now, and then someone will be responsible for what. If there are three ABC people, A is in charge of 6 articles, BC is in charge of 14 articles, and BC is in charge of the content together, then the two of them use a tomato time, and A uses a tomato time. As shown in the figure below:
Why not give a tomato time to the whole team, because the more people there are, the more uncontrollable factors there will be, which will seriously interfere with the whole tomato planning time and so on. Because there is a lot of teamwork, how to arrange a meeting that everyone needs to attend? Who will set the timer? Who will make the prediction? Who will record the tomato time? How to adjust the worksheet in team work? How to shift during tomato time? And so on, a series of problems have put forward solutions. Because it takes a long time for a team to find a working method suitable for its own team, the author also puts forward three common working methods of teamwork tomato time, namely, counter working method, tomato hacking method and city breaking hammer working method. The team can actually use one of these three methods quickly, and the latter method can be used when the team is running in for a long time.
Part4 mainly tells you how long it takes to learn pomodoro technique and how to personalize our usual tomato time according to our own situation. Besides, because we are not robots, it is impossible to carry out the plan without making any changes, so how to decide when to rest and how long to rest when there are changes has been solved. Among them, we talked about a new perspective about time, the sound problem of tomato timer, the problem that users are affected by sound in pomodoro technique, the problem that using tomato timer in public places will affect others' solution, and the anxiety of users about ringing the bell. If you respect the rest arrangement between each tomato time and each group of tomato time, you can work or study at your own pace. It is natural that you will be tired, but you will not be exhausted. In other words, by consciously arranging the rest time and the complexity of work content, every user in pomodoro technique can finally understand his sustainable rhythm and physiological rhythm.
The next few ideas are more important, namely 1. We should know that every tomato time is very important, and don't think that we need to race against time in our work. Time is fair. Everyone has so much time, it depends on who can finish the task they want more rhythmically and efficiently. 2. Many people are still anxious when using pomodoro technique, and still think that what they are doing is inefficient. Don't worry, you have to tell yourself that the next tomato time will be smoother. Rest keeps you away from work for a while, which makes us more efficient. They won't interfere with our work. 4. Complete one goal at a time. If our task is very complicated and needs more than 5-7 tomato hours, then we can consider whether we should split the target and finish it bit by bit. We don't need to worry! ! ! Our goal is not to complete all the goals in the shortest time, but to complete the goals we set bit by bit according to our rhythm. But let's not be a person with a plan but no optimization. For example, I need four tomato hours to do one thing, and others need three, so we should consider how to optimize our working methods, quality and efficiency when we do it next time.
Finally, there are some laws that are more important. These laws can remind yourself from time to time not to forget pomodoro technique's original intention:
1. A tomato time includes 25 minutes of work time and 5 minutes of rest time. 2. Every time you finish a tomato group, you should rest 15-30 minutes. 3. A tomato time is inseparable. 4. Tomato time must have a beginning and an end. 5. If a tomato time is stopped, it will be invalid. 6. If the tomato time is finished before the end, please wait until the timer stops. 7. Protect pomodoro technique, notify the other party in time, negotiate quickly, reschedule the interruption time, and reply to the person who comes to you according to the negotiation time. 8. If the task is more than 5-7 tomatoes, divide it equally. 9. If a task is not enough to finish a tomato job, see you later and add it up. 10. The result is the accumulation of tomato time after tomato time. 1 1. The timetable takes precedence over the working hours of tomatoes. 12. In teamwork, team one has tomato time. 13. The next tomato time will be smoother! ! !
Excerpt from the original golden sentence
Remember, time is a greedy gambler, never cheats, and always wins every bet.
-"During work, these ways of interference or procrastination are called endogenous interference. It usually masks our fear that we can't finish the work in the way and speed we want. Endogenous interference is often closely related to the inability to concentrate. "
-"At the beginning of a new project or learning activity, it is harmful to spend some time exploring."
-"Those who are not used to self-discipline and those who attach great importance to achieving their goals can hardly concentrate on achieving pomodoro technique's primary goal."
-"If you go to the first book for entertainment, you won't need to use pomodoro technique at this time. You must take the time to eat tomatoes out of your free time. "
-"By breaking and reversing our dependence on time, a new view of time has emerged."
-"pomodoro technique" Frequent siesta is conducive to smooth, awake and effective brain activity, which can improve productivity. "