Life skills are the fundamental abilities acquired through learning or direct life experiences, that empower people to deal with various life issues that they may encounter.
These life skills are important because you would need them through life- even after schooling. Experts say that the best time to acquire life skills is during the formative or teenage years. However, it’s never too late to start building certain life skills, even if you are past the formative or teenage years.
The following are some necessary life skills you must acquire to get an edge in life:
1) GOOD LISTENING SKILLS
Good listening skills are fundamental to a healthy relationship between human beings. You will need it to have a quality relationship with your parents, other family members, schoolmates, and friends. Now, what you may not realize as a student is that as you pay attention to your teachers in class, you are also developing your listening skills. A good listening skill allows you to understand every task that has been listed out, hence making you a more productive person. The importance of this life skill cannot be overemphasized.
2) ROBUST VOCABULARY
Education exposes you to a vast opportunity for learning and improvement, which is why one of the vital indicators of education is a rich vocabulary. Note that your enlarged vocabulary is not just for the school but is also a tool you use outside the school and in your life journey as you interact with people from different walks of life. Note that a robust vocabulary helps improve your listening, comprehension, writing, and other aspects of communication.
3) ESSAY WRITING
You have been exposed to essay writing since your primary school days. Essay writing is a necessary skill you need for life. It will surely be needful one day.
4) MEMORY RETENTION
Through the entire process of reading, studying, and passing examinations, you are training and boosting your mind’s retention power. You need memory retention in practical life situations outside of the four walls of the school.
5) HEALTHY COOKING
What better time to learn healthy cooking than now that you are still a student? Not just to learn how to cook but also to combine your knowledge from school, you would know how to do meal planning and settle only for balanced diets alone.
6) LEARNING FROM MISTAKES
One of the irremovable features of the school is the test and examination feature. No single student gets 100% in every examination. At the end of the test, there are always some corrections. The teacher comes and solves all the problems, and the students learn from their mistakes. This is very crucial, we will fail in life sometimes, but the most important thing is learning to accept corrections, so one does not continue making the same mistake endlessly.
7) PUNCTUALITY
Countless people have either lost job interviews or their jobs because of lateness, which they have been guilty of since secondary school times. You can choose to be punctual in school, till the point it becomes a habit and a life skill.
8) SOCIAL SKILLS
The school presents an excellent opportunity to learn how to socialize and interact with people.
When you get a firm grasp of this skill, it stays with you for life, and wherever, whenever you can talk and socialize with people freely.
You probably are engaging in most of these skills already.
Be intentional about every activity in school, as it will be beneficial even beyond the walls of your school.
Which of these skills do you think you need more because it’s either little or vacant in your life?