The Ultimate Learning Technique (You Might Be Ignoring)

pkm is a new term to describe an old problem how do we make sense of the world maybe you're trying to get through history class or write your dissertation for a phd maybe you've gone down the internet

rabbit hole into some fascinating topic but you don't want to forget everything by next week maybe you're putting together a grocery list or a list of to-do's for the day maybe you're working your way in a new career

trying to track who's who and how and how that's relevant to your aspirations maybe you just love ideas and you get inspired and blown away by how the plow yes the plow changed humanity

shout out to james burke maybe you want to track your dreams your heart rate or your workouts over time maybe you want to remember the memories you had with cherished friends and family some of whom

aren't around anymore except in memory maybe you want to figure out how to go about living a good life something the ancient greeks might call eudaimonia if you do anything like this

then you're managing knowledge that's pkm that's personal knowledge management according to wikipedia knowledge management is the process of

creating sharing using and managing knowledge and information oregon as i like to stress personal knowledge management is really about the process of making sense of the world sense

making how do we make sense of this world now that's a thread that once you start pulling it unravels all sorts of juicy questions questions like what should i do in this world

how should i conduct myself where should i spend my limited amount of attention what really matters if we decide these existential questions are fundamental to a life

worth living then we better have a way of dealing with all the stuff you know the intangible ether of ideas the stuff that surrounds all of our waking living breathing

moments pkm can help us do just that so how do we deal with the stuff of ideas well what did we do a few thousand years ago our ancient ancestors tried to

manage knowledge so they could remember the most important stuff in buddhism our ancestors codified knowledge into something called the eightfold path not the eightyfold path our stoic

ancestors had their four virtues not forty and at some point in time basically all formal religions have taken a crack at phrasing the golden rule these things are easy to remember

let's call them reminders and they act as a helpful guide for us to at least strive to live a good life whatever that means to us whoa that's it what does this stuff mean to us what

does it mean to you how do you make sense of the world and even if you think you have it all figured out today how can you make sure you won't forget what you've learned because while life is too short

for our memories it's too long believe me i say to myself the you of today isn't the same you of 10 years ago and it follows that the u of 10 years from today will have changed

in equally big ways way bigger than we usually comprehend on a day-to-day basis in that way we give ourselves way too much credit for what we'll remember

and there's the rub i can't tell you how many times i've had some amazing breakthrough on how to live a good life but i quickly forgot it because i just kept consuming and

collecting other ideas until i drowned out the very idea that meant so much to me that's bad pkm the reverse of that is good pkm

instead of collecting more idea noise stop for a bit and focus on the signal when you find it and then do something with it with today's digital linking tools you can easily connect that nugget of

wisdom to an existing note in your note library boom you've spent more time with it you've externalized it and you've connected it to other ideas now you've got a way of making sense of the

world that can reliably grow with you over the years so 10 years from today future you can return to these notes and connect them to new experiences that you've had

or maybe future you is having a mid-life crisis and having these notes can re-ground you and remind you of what brings you meaning now that's some powerful personal

knowledge management now since there are so many ways to manage knowledge it would be helpful to have a framework we can all point to

to that end i'm excited to share with you the pkm planet the pkm planet allows us to see where and think about how we are spending our time

in the world of knowledge management by the way if you're digging this content make sure to join the light notes newsletter the link is in the description below this newsletter focuses on

how to think better and with more joy and how to be a better note maker and not just a note taker alright welcome to the pkm planet let's check this thing out

what is happening here on this graph what you need to know is that there are six main areas lands realms where we spend time

managing knowledge so let's travel around the planet a bit and get a sense of what's what let's start with pmm this is memory management the collecting and using

and developing of our memory how we remember things next up we have pim this is idea management this is the sense making the connecting

and the developing of ideas then we have pwm writing management this is writing packaging stuff together and sharing content

then we have ppm this is productivity management the understanding the developing and the advancing of projects and goals keeping going around the world we have

psm skill management the improving and developing of skills and abilities the creation of habits finally we have prm relationship

management the understanding developing and maintaining of relationships anything we do in the wide world of personal knowledge management can go

on this planet and we will explore this in depth in the series of upcoming videos now in practice these areas often overlap as you connect ideas you're writing about them as you're

writing about things oftentimes it's to achieve a goal or advance a project that's why the pkm planet is a blended color wheel filled with all the shades

under the sun the beauty of the pkm planet is it forces the question where am i spending time in my management of knowledge

and how because the thing is we only have a limited amount of time on this planet so if we can bring more wisdom and intention to our knowledge management efforts we can waste less time we can get better

results and we can experience more joy in the process all we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us using the pkm planet we can finally map

out our use cases in a common way we can more easily explain to people where we are spending our time in this really hard to describe world called pkm

and it turns out there are some common pkm archetypes knowing these archetypes better can help you better know thyself the next seven videos in this

what is pkm series will explore these archetypes how much time are you spending as a top-down thinker how about as a bottom-up thinker how can we map these archetypes on the

pkm planet how does time spent with knowledge differ from the note takers versus the note makers what about the note takers who get caught in the trap of continually summarizing the same

information and never get to the point where they're actually making sense of it how does their quality of experience differ from the note makers how can we recognize the content

regurgitators from the sense makers we can actually map their different weather patterns on the pkm planet are you a writer a journaler a fiction writer a world builder

how do those workflows map on the pkm planet are you a personal development nerd a project manager your time spent on the pcam planet can show a unified view of where you

spend your time thinking are you a student what kind a churning burn student or a know and grow student we'll explore the different goals and the ocean currents

on a student's pkm planet and maybe you also want to keep track of a few personal and professional relationships what do those weather patterns look like on the pkm planet before we're done we

will have detailed over 14 pkm archetypes knowing these archetypes will help you avoid some of the most common pitfalls in knowledge management while spending

more time confidently saving developing and maturing your ideas sustainably over time if pkm could utter a single line

it would be this through me you make sense of the world that's fundamentally important because through your sense of the world all your actions are influenced that

means through better sense making you become empowered to create better to learn faster to work at a higher and more sustainable level and yet stay grounded and focused as the

world attempts to tear your attention apart through better sense making by digitally linking your thinking you can develop your ideas over decades you can make more valuable leaps of insights and all the

while you can't help but train yourself into the habit of better thinking by better thinking i mean the ability to think critically creatively and connectively

all at the same time this type of sustainable sense making will fill your thoughts with more joy meaning and personally unique perspectives

armed with all that you can't help but be able to contribute more value in more ways to your family your friends your community and society as a whole and it's all from

developing a personal environment to encourage nurture develop and reliably save your best thinking that's the promise and the premise of personal knowledge

management that's pkm this is the start of the ongoing what is pkm series make sure to hit the subscribe button and click the notification bell

to get all the future juicy installments next up we'll look at the forever battle

of pkm planet archetypes top down

versus bottom up see you there you