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• Committed: When you are committed to doing something, you accept no excuses, it’s only results. Your confidence
level will automatically increase with your commitment.
• Focused: It’s only when you begin to focus, you transform, change and grow. If you stay focused, you will grow up
to be a more confident person.
• Knows your strengths and weaknesses: Our strengths and weaknesses make our character. A confident person
always focuses on his strengths and not on weaknesses.
6. Discuss any two tips to build self-confidence.
Ans. Following are the two tips to build self-confidence:
• Stay Happy with Little Things: Happiness always comes in small packages. Try to appreciate the smallest of things
that you have and make the most of it. Show gratitude.
• Stay Clean and Hygienic: An individual’s personal hygiene is very important. It is one of the biggest reasons of
acceptance or rejection by your peer group. It not only builds confidence in you, but it also keeps you healthy.
7. How can you keep your thinking positive?
Ans. We can keep our thinking positive by following way:
• Start your day with a positive gesture: One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.
Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen. Every positive thought takes
you in the right direction
• Manage time to relax: A tired body can be harmful to your productivity and health. Relaxed mind brings inner
strength, self confidence and positive thinking and that’s very important for your health.
• Imagine the best in any situation: No matter what challenging situation you find yourself in, imagine the best
outcome in it and feel it. When you do, you can change the circumstances and situation into what you want. It makes
you a positive person.
• Learn to take feedback in a positive way: Bill Gates said “We all need people who give us feedback. That’s how we
improve.” Feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication. No matter how good you think you are,
people around you will have all kinds of feedback, learn to take feedback in a positive way.
• Express gratitude: In our lives we do not realise that we receive a great deal more than we give. No one who
achieves success does so without the help of others. Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more.
8. What are the factors that affect self-confidence? [NCERT]
Ans. The factors that affect self-confidence are given the following:
• Social Factors: It is pre-evident that man is a social animal. We experience positivity and confidence when people
appreciate our effort and respect us. It can be understood simply that when a man is in a comfortable, friendly
environment, he forgets his weaknesses, flaws and incapabilities, rather he generates self confidence and starts
using his qualities more rationally and takes more interest in social issues too. Hence, social factor plays an
important role in confidence building as he takes positive inputs from the society around him and gives back the
same.
• Cultural Factors: In this scientific era, where technology has excelled so much, we Indians still haven’t forgotten our
culture, family values and ethics. Our traditional culture holds important position in our lives. Keeping or sticking to
cultural habits or traditional ethics, a strong value system or self recognition is felt in personality of a person and such
feeling gives more of self confidence.
C. Competency-based/Application-based questions: #Communication
1. You have noticed that your classmate does not wear appropriate clothes to school. You have to educate him about the
dressing and grooming standards. What would you tell him?
Ans. • Clothes should be clean, neat, and ironed
• Shoes should be clean and polished
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