Essential Life Skills for a Successful Career

What are Life Skills?

A set of skills that make your life worth living are Life skills. They are the basic skills that are very useful in our life; For example, organizing your room properly or driving the vehicle by keeping all the safety rules in mind.

On a broader aspect, life skills are those abilities that help us deal with our emotions, success, failure, and all the demands and challenges of life effectively; For example, dealing with loneliness by engaging yourself in some work or other mind refreshing activities that can stop you from sliding into depression.

These skills promote the mental well-being of a person

 that help to lead a healthy and productive life.

Why is it important to impart life skill education to students?

The challenges that today’s generation is facing are hard to survive. Mainly, this covid era where children are unable to hold the grip of their studies. It is the most unexpected and unfair time of every student’s life. Taking classes at home has disturbed the healthy schedule of a student. They have become socially inactive and lost that enthusiasm to live. Hence, it becomes very crucial to impart life skills to children that will help to deal with and survive these challenging situations.

Core Life Skills

• Self-Awareness
• Empathy
• Critical Thinking
• Creative Thinking
• Decision making
• Problem solving
• Effective communication
• Interpersonal relationship
• Coping with stress
• Coping with emotions

How can Life Skills be made an Essential part of School Curriculum?

As per the CBSE curriculum, the introduction of CCE has fulfilled the part of life skill education where teachers assign a multidisciplinary project to students that help them learn various life skills within a group of students.

It is basically an activity where students learn and grow among themselves only under the supervision of a mentor.

Apart from main subjects like maths and science, this particular activity has actually upgraded the overall personality of students.

Then, NEP 2020 also highlighted this aspect very well. It focuses on experimental learning that says ‘Learn from Experiments’

For example; Gardening and learning about different kinds of soil practically will be going to make a stronger impact than reading in books.

When they understand the concept properly, it will be easy for them to learn and write about the topic. Therefore, it will eliminate the idea of rote learning from students’ minds.

In this way, NEP 2020 proves to be an effective as well as an interesting way of learning that can help students to build a positive mindset towards life.

The Most Important Life Skill in a Student’s Life

Communication skill is one of the most important life skills a person should learn and work on. It is that special skill that makes you stand out from a crowd. The way you communicate, the way you put your ideas and thoughts in front of others is how you create your impression on people

Mastering this skill will help you achieve great goals. Degrees prove that you are educated but having good communication skills prove you are intelligent enough to implement that.