“Today is life - the only life you are
sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself
awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live
today with gusto.” - Dale Carnegie
Students must focus on both curricular
and extracurricular activities equally as both can be compared with two eyes of
an individual. Often students focus too
much on academic activities and ignore extra curricular activities. It is a
retrograde step leading to lopsided personality. For Indian students, there is a lot of
pressure academically, and as a result, they ignore extracurricular activities.
Here are the advantages of emphasizing on extracurricular activities:
Playing games and sports enhances team
spirit and leadership qualities. Students will be able to build more energy
levels thus getting relaxed and focusing on academics effectively. As it is
rightly said, “All the work no play makes the Jack dull”. Hence, involving in
physical activities has innumerable advantages for them.
Extracurricular activities help manage
time effectively apart from building various skills that are needed for overall
personality development. They remove negative thoughts from mind as people are
engaged with various other constructive activities.
During employment interview the HR
people often ask questions about extracurricular activities to assess the
suitability of the candidates. It shows the importance attached to
extracurricular activities.
If curricular activities develop hard
skills, the extracurricular activities develop soft skills. Hard skills are
about technical subject and competence, and soft skills are about interpersonal
skills, personality, attitude and behavior. Right chemistry between the hard
and soft skills is an imperative not only at the campus but also at the
corporate world. There are a number of employees who are fired due to lack of
soft skills despite being good in hard skills. In fact, people rise in
organizations due to hard skills and fall due to dearth of soft skills.
There is no meaning to life when
people focus too much on regular activities neglecting others activities that
promote spiritual, mental, emotional and physical faculties. Hence, students
must blend both curricular and extracurricular activities to eat the cake and
have it too.
“We need a sense of the value of time
- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.”
- Arnold Bennett
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