![]() He found the objective validation he was looking for in a kitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro (“tomato” in Italian), and the rest, as they say, is history. As the story goes, he made a bet with himself, daring himself to dig in and study for 10 minutes straight. In the late 1980’s, a university student named Francesco Cirillo invented the Pomodoro Technique as a way to help him concentrate and avoid distractions when he studied. Tremaine, of course, is not alone in her time-management tools. She thinks it’s the perfect amount of time for a reading session: “Long enough that you can get through a chapter or two of the book, but not so long that your mind wanders.” Before long, she realized she was actually getting a lot of reading done in several short sessions throughout the day.įast-forward 12 years Tremaine remains faithful to what many call the timer method, even going so far as to host 20-minute reading parties on Instagram Live. Since she was already using a timer for the feedings, she naturally ended up timing her reading as well. Breastfeeding was a struggle, so she distracted herself with a book. ![]() It wasn’t all that different for Tremaine, who started using the timer method when she breastfed her first baby in 2009. Mostly, though, I just marveled at the fact that so much reading could happen in small, succinct periods of time. I read The Education of an Idealist and White Rage which had been on my list for far too long. Soon, I made my way through Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and Caste, two books that couldn’t have been more different if they tried, but paired together rather nicely when a timer was set. ![]() It’s as simple as that: Focus a manageable chunk of time solely on reading books. If you don’t want your phone nearby, you can use an actual timer or stopwatch. Before my work day began, I sat at my desk, laptop shut, and phone to the side with a timer app set to 20 minutes. So when Laura Tremaine, author of Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First, suggested I set a timer for 20 minutes, everything changed.
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