Techno-Science

After having “used” this technique for one day, here’s what I’ve been in front of:

1) 10 minutes is a small amount of time
10 minutes is not a big enough amount of time. This should be replace by at least 20 minutes or half an hour. I know it’s suppose to be aimed at people who procrastinate, but I think that I’d rather get things done in half an hour than 34 minutes because I took 2 pauses of 2 minutes between each sets of 10 minutes.

2) 2 minutes pauses are not “pauses”
The 2 minutes pauses are really there only to get out for a moment, but it really breaks the contact. If you’re trying to learn something or remember before an exam, it’s most likely you’ll just keep losing it because you pause between each time you use it. It might seems good, but I can tell it’s doing the opposite. I’m not quite sure if it’s going to do the same thing in the long run. If it does, then it’s great. This will mean that’s it’s not a good technique for small-term memory, but it’s good for long-term one.

3) DAMN! I’ve lost 10 minutes of my studying hour
Yes indeed, I lost 10 minutes by stopping each ten minutes to “pause”, which reduced my learning time by 1/6 which is quite big. I haven’t been able to fully study the subject and ended up with about 2 or 3 pages I didn’t know a thing about. This technique should be used for light work, since heavy “last minute” work will be killed by it.

On a last note, I think this technique should be changed to something like this : 2(25+5). Better results, more of a break than a sudden stop. This hack isn’t useful in any way, don’t even consider using it. Someone that need to do those kinds of pauses must be retarded since it’s ain’t helping, you’re just stopping in the middle of what you’re doing losing all the informations you had been learning or doing to come back a minute later to start all again, no good.