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The answer to the most important question “Who am I” will help you identify your true self. This can be done by
finding out about:
• Your beliefs that control your thoughts and feelings.
• Your background and past experience will shape your decision in future.
• Your opinions about yourself will shape your personality and will give you clarity and understanding about your life.
• Your likes and dislikes will help you prioritize your activities and will keep you emotionally healthy.
• Your values that persuade your choices you make in life.
Strength and Weakness
Strength is a positive trait that enhances your knowledge, skills, talent and brings confidence in what you do. They are
the talents and abilities that uniquely identifies you. It helps you believe in your capabilities and use them efficiently
to achieve your goals.
Weakness is a negative trait that brings unhappiness and sometimes pulls away from the path of success in life. It is
also sometimes associated with pain, trauma, and negative emotions.
Knowing about your strengths and weakness will help you:
• Understand what you can do and what is difficult for you.
• To work on turning your weakness into your strength.
• To gain confidence and achieve your goals in life.
uiz Bee Answer the following questions:
1. What are your top four qualities or strengths? List them.
2. How do you use them in your school life?
3. Mention your one strength which you used recently to get good grades in your project.
4. Which negative trait in you gives you pain and disturbs you mentally?
Difference between Interests and Abilities
Interest is something you prefer to do and you enjoy doing it. It provides you a direction to develop your habits and
skills. If you are interested in anything then motivation comes automatically. On your own you will put extra time and
efforts to complete an assigned task. Learning what you enjoy will help you develop your skills in it so that you can
pursue it as a career in future. You may be good at playing guitar so give more time to it, enjoy exploring it and may
pursue it as a career in future.
Ability comes naturally without any effort. It is your talent that you acquire naturally. It is a key for your happiness in
life. It enables you to do a particular task efficiently with full confidence and good results.
Self-Motivation
Self-motivation is the force that drives you to do things to achieve your goals. It is a life skill and must be necessarily
developed to keep you going even in the times of set-backs and look for new opportunities in every move of life.
Self-motivation helps you:
• Push yourself to face the challenges of life.
• Survive the tough competition in personal and professional life.
• By giving you happiness.
• By improving your quality of life.
• To withstand setbacks and grow as an individual.
• To believe in yourself and convince yourself to do things as and when
put to you.
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