#PKMChat 2017-03-01 Motivation for PKM

Motivation for PKM

PKM is the growth engine for personal development. This was said during a past chat.

It is enough to fuel a sustained motivation?

For some of us, learning is a journey worth doing. For me learning and constantly monitoring, elaborating on what I find take time. beyond time it”x also tiring. Checking is something is worth reading requires attention. Focused reading requires some willpower. Sorting, annotating stuff requires extra discipline justified only by long term benefits.

Everyday I’m wondering if it’s worth it. Many people don’t learn and share on a regular basis. It can be compared to running, taking regular exercise. Not everybody is doing it and it requires intrinsic motivation.

On the flip side, it often happens that I come across something that saves me 2 hours in my day work. 2 hours off from my planned goal is worth it. It’s even better because I usually benefit from a better, more mature solution. Should I reinvest those two hours now that the return on investment was proved? Those who , just after I ask myself if spending 2 hours a day learning is worth it.

My conclusion today was yes, it’s worth it and should be sustained at the same level.

I was also inspired by this guy who made a complete ReactJS course in chinese for his team.

Then he shared it with everyone.

That’s a PKM well employed.

Was is your view on this topic?

We could share some ideas on what motivates us, why we lack of it sometime, the rational behind.

• Do you consider PKM being a valuable component of your professional life?
• How do you motivate yourself?
• Do you lack motivation in general?
• Did you face the case where you have to motivates others to do so.
• Which part of PKM requires more motivation
• Could willpower help when motivation is missing?
• How do you motivate/encourage others to practice PKM?

PKMChat being about Personal Knowledge Management encompass Knowledge lifecycle in general. Our first chat was about learning, acquiring Knowledge. Our second is about sharing it. Week after weeks we will switch from one end of the lifecycle to another while exploring all the channels that could be used: social, formal, writing, videos. Feel free to suggest topics by tweeting to @pkmchat.