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by Kodix 3107 days ago
The largest benefit of Pomodoro for me is just starting things instead of procrastinating. It's a very "light" thought that I'll just spend a pomodoro on something, making it easy to get started. And once you get started, it almost always gets far easier to continue than to stop.
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That's called Zeigarnik effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik_effect

Like the old writer's trick of leaving your daily work mid-sentence / paragraph to keep your mind working on it even in "offline mode."