I've been educating adult learners in the IT field for many years now. The thing I find most interesting is what motivates people to learn. With adults they have to know it will benefit them in someway before they feel it's worth their time. Learning for the sake of learning is pretty rare, especially in the business world where I teach.
Even for myself, although I find a great deal of things fascinating and interesting to learn, I'm not motivated to attend a class unless I see clear benefit to someway in which I intend to apply it.
What motivates you to learn new things?
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Even if I am not learning something to apply, I need to at least know that what I am about to learn can help me make connections between existing or to new ideas.
I agree. All learning I tend toward (and I feel like a constantly dry sponge) does need to have some relevance or applicability or at lease a sense I might apply it one day.
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