I am participating to a course on Problem-Based Learning (PBL) with the intent of finding new ways of motivating students to engage in their learning process. Here, for students I mean the more general category of people that commit to some training endeavour, including both academy and industry. As a matter of fact, a quite widespread problem with training is keeping students engaged in pursuing their studies. This is not a recent issue, it is enough to consider that many of the teaching and learning theories about learning styles have been investigated as a need of understanding why some students performed much better that others, regardless the topic and/or the teacher. (Image found somewhere on the web) I started reflecting more on my personal experiences as a "student", my driving motivations and faced difficulties affecting my engagement. One conclusion I can surely make is that the engagement has effectively worked each time I was the donkey in the middle of the figu