22/03/2020
The Importance of Life Skills
In a constantly changing environment, having life skills is a basic part of being able to address the difficulties of regular day to day existences. The dramatic changes in global worldwide economies over the course of the recent five years have been coordinated with the change in innovation technology. All these are putting a greater impact on education, the working environment and at our home life.
To be able to cope up with the increasing pace and change of present-day life, students need to learn life skills, for example, the capacity to manage pressure and disappointment.
Benefits for the Individual:
In regular day to day life, the development of life skills encourages students to:
1. Encourages them to take responsibility for what they do, instead of shifting blames.
2. Build confidence both in speaking skills, for group collaboration & cooperation with joint effort and participation.
3. Analyze various alternatives, make decisions and understand why they make certain specific decisions outside the classroom.
4. Develop a greater sense of self-awareness, feeling of mindfulness and an appreciation for other people.
5. The capacity to self-manage, tackle issues while understanding individual responsibilities.
6. Readiness and flexibility to various jobs in adaptable workplaces.
7. Help them develop self-confidence & higher self-esteem.
8. Give them a voice in their group, community, society & at schools.
9. Enable them to make a positive contribution by developing experience & expertise within them.
10. Prepare them for upcoming challenges, difficult situations as well as opportunities in their later life.
Benefits for Society as a Whole:
The more we develop life skills individually, the more these benefit the world in which we live by recognizing cultural awareness and citizenship makes international cooperation easier with people of other societies and by respecting diversity to allow creativity and imagination to flourish a more developed society.
Vocational & life skills need to be encouraged. These factors are the reason that developing countries like India should invest in skill development for youth with proper education.
In short, “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
