Pomodoro BF & Strategies Flashcards
What is Absorption
Background processing of previously assimilated information
BB reason for Breaks
Brain needs breaks to recharge and allow for offline processing = absorption
BS for needing to recharge brain and allow for offline processing
- Short Detached breaks of mental relaxation
- Long Detached Breaks of mental relaxation
- Sleep
BS: What is a detached break?
time away from the activity and anything else that is mentally challenging
What 3 things must occur during a detached break?
- Stand
- Stretch
- Take at least 3 steps
What are the 5 best detached break activities in order?
- Sleeping
- Walking
- Drinking
- Gazing out window
- Playing with animals
On the detached break continuum, what 5 activities fall below the line?
- Talking
- Reading/Viewing
- Interacting with digital devices
- Responding to anything
- Working on things other than focused activity from which you are taking a break
What BFs do breaks satisfy?
- Brains need mental relaxation in order to neutralize stress system
- Brains need offline time in order to absorb
What is the stress system?
The part of the brain that controls stress in our brains, including
What happens with lack of mental relaxation
- stress system becomes over activated
What happens when the stress system becomes over activated?
- Thinking systems in brain system diminish
- Limbic system begins to malfunction
- Senses become under performing
- Biological rhythms (sleep, eating,) affected
What happens at chronic stress levels?
- Working memory suffers a loss of capacity
- Reduction in ability to Concentrate
- Joy of working is transformed into anxiety
- Creativity and inspiration are transformed into irritation, procrastination and dread
- Loss of sense of safety/security - anxiety - procrastination
What is the Von Restorff Effect?
The concept that visually isolated items in a list of otherwise similar items will be better remembered
BF: Von Restorff Effect. Why is it true?
Visually isolated items in a list of otherwise similar items activated focus on the isolated item. It provokes the brain to receive, absorb and store the information as memory much more readily.
What are 2 BS related to Restorff Effect?
- Highlight items on the To Do Today List at the beginning of each new Comodoro
- Transfer an item onto a sticky to create a virtual Now List
What is the Now List
The 1 thing you give your entire attention to right now, during the work period of a Comodoro.
What is the challenge of executing the Now List
remaining focused such that you give no attention/focus to any other activity during the work effort session of Pomodoro
How many items can there be on the Now List
0 or 1
What is prospective memory?
our brains’ ability to remember upcoming plans - things we are supposed to do in the future.
What part of the brain manages prospective memory?
Pre-frontal cortex
What brain functions manage prospective memory?
Executive Functions
What is retrospective memory?
our brains ability to store past experiences
What activities accentuate prospective memory?
- writing items to be remembered down
2. setting alerts to prompt action
Why is it important to accentuate prospective memory?
Need to get prospective memory out of Working Memory because WM can hold a max of 7 items at one time. By writing it down and setting alerts as reminders, the brain feels safe that the action will occur - motivation
