The importance of Core Life Skills in Students Life

Introduction

The skills which are useful in life and mostly derived from life are called Core Life Skills. Core
Life Skills are very important in everyone’s life especially for students. Student life is the time
where students have the chance to learn all the skills which are necessary to live a successful life.
The core life skills enable the students to achieve life targets and goals and secure their future. The
core life skills provide ease and comfort in upcoming stages of life for students and make them
capable and competent. Without these skills, a student cannot achieve its life goals and targets.
The success in life is only possible if the students learn these core life skills in their student life
which enable them to get life targets.

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Understanding Core Life Skills

The origin source of core life skills is life and these skills are very important in everyone’s life
especially for students. Following are the core life skills which a student can learn during his
student life.

Coping with Stress

During student life, a student may face many stressful situations where his life skills which he
learns during student life came and give him an escape from the situation. These situations enable
him to understand and find a solution to these. It is a very good learning for a student in his student
life.

Coping with emotions

Another thing which a student learn during his student life is coping with emotions. In student
many emotional issues arrive which are necessary to deal, otherwise these emotions will destroy a
student’s career. So a student learns that how to deal with our own emotions and with others
emotions. This learning will very helpful for the student in their future life and targets.

Decision Making
One of the most important skill which a student learn in his student life is decision making skill.
Decision making skill is a core life skill which enable students to prepare themselves for upcoming
complex situations of life. A student faces many difficult situation and option in his student life
where he needs to choose one. So this decision making skills which he learns from student life will
play an important role in his future career.

Creative & Critical Thinking

Creative & Critical thinking describes the ability to think in different and unusual ways about
problems and find new solutions. Students face many different problems during their studies and
need creative and critical thinking. This skill enables student to counter upcoming problems in
their future life and career.

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Understanding Issues Faced by Students / Youth

Students / youth faces many different problems during their early life and tactics and solutions
they learned in this period will determine their future life and career. Following are some problems
which they face during student life.

Time Management

During studies, one of the major problem which they face is time management. Students faces
many difficulties while managing their time according to needs of studies. Give proper time to
study and other allied activities is very difficult for them to manage.

Social Problems

During studies, students meet students from different culture, color, race and language which
create difficulties for the students to settle down. Students faces different problems like food,
dressing, emotional attachments and different opinions.

Choosing A Major

It is very important for the students to choose a major in their studies which determine their future
career. Due to lack of career counselling at this level, students face many problems while choosing
their major. Choosing a major is a very important decision for students because it determine their
future career.

Depression

Every problem raises the stress level of the students which decreases the abilities of a student. All
these problems create depression and depression become another problem for student. Depression
affects a lot the career of the student and cause a major in failure of the students which ends in low
career portfolio.

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Importance of Core Life Skills in the lives of Students

Core life skills are very important in the lives of students because these skills enable the students
to find a good career in their future life. These skills enable students to score high grades in their
studies and secure a good career in the future. Core life skills also helpful to the student in their
professional life where they face different problems and competition. The good communication,
creative thinking, stress management skills helpful to secure a good future and professional
growth. Core life skills improves all three stages of the life of a student i.e. student life, personal
life, and professional life because all these skills are very useful and applicable in every field of
life. When a student enjoys a good academic record, definitely he will enjoy a good personal life
and both will affect the future career and professional life of the student. Core life skills enable the
student to meet the upcoming challenges of academic, personal and professional life and live a
good healthy life in future. These skills almost cover all the aspects of life of a student and improve
his capabilities and abilities.

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Conclusion

All the problems which a student faces in his student life also provide him a chance to learn the
core life skills. The skills which a student learns during his studies enables the student to improves
his academic career. These skills also improve the personal life and helpful in personality growth.
These core life skill enables the student to score high grades in their academics which leads them
to a secure and prosperous future. Core life skills enable them to live a successful professional life
and rapid growth in personal life of a student. Core life skills which a student learn during his
studies are the asset for him which make his future secure and successful. A successful person
always leaves a road map for new comers which is also a factor of motivation for them.