As a graduate business student and a voracious reader of articles, I have come across the term Pomodoro Technique a lot over the last few months.
It is a time management and productivity theory developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. When I first saw it mentioned I had two questions: “Why on earth is it called the Pomodoro Technique?” and “Why does this work?” The answer to the first question is simple.
Cirillo used a tomato-shaped kitchen timer when developing this theory, and pomodoro is the Italian word for tomato! The second question is a little more complicated but equally as engaging!
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