PBTO S2E5: Personal Knowledge Mastery with Harold Jarche

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Opening music credits goes to Riju Mukhopadhyay & Pavan Cherukumilli

Who is on the show:

In this episode, we host Harold Jarche. He is focused on providing actionable insights for workplace transformation. He works with individuals, organizations, and public policy influencers to develop practical ways to adapt to the technological, demographic, and societal changes facing us today.

Why is he on the show:

I have been reading his blog for almost a couple of years and have learned a lot. He helped me change my approach to internalising important information that I come across through a framework that he has developed.

What did I learn from this conversation:

Here are the lessons I learned from this conversation:

1. We are getting to a situation, where we come across a lot of information and if we don’t have a framework for us to internalise what is important, file away things that we might want to come back to later and ignore everything else, we are only spending a lot of time reading, listening to podcasts or watching videos turns out to be mostly time wasted.

2. His framework for personal knowledge mastery is the following – Seek, Sense & Share. It is important to be intentional about what we want to learn (Seek). Once we seek this information, we need to make sense of this information and decide what to do with it (understand & learn, file it some place, categorise, etc). Once this is done, we then identify a community of practice that could benefit from the information and share it with them (through your own blog, podcast, videos, etc).

3. One of the important pillars of the PKM model is the communities of practice. It is important to build or join communities of practice, where we can share our learnings with peers who can then either help us gain a deeper understanding, provide a different perspective or thank us for sharing some valuable information.

4. Building networks of loose ties are important as well. Most interesting opportunities come from people with whom we have weak ties.

5. Every one of us needs to find our very own (personal) way to internalise information and transform it into knowledge and wisdom.

6. The more we share within our networks, the stronger the community becomes. A community that doesn’t share knowledge, becomes weaker as a community.

7. We are all better off living in perpetual beta. We, as individuals, can also remain in perpetual beta. We are never fully evolved and thereby we are all in perpetual beta.