Everyone wants to look good, to have a strong impact on others and to be confident and successful. Taking part in productive extracurricular activities can help you reach that. If we take a look at the types of extracurricular activities that are offered to you people (the students), we come across some very good career and personality building work. It’s been proven from research that extracurricular activities develop a person psychologically, physically and socially. The activities you’re interested in and the activities you do really define who you are.

Read the following points to know more about how extracurricular activities help you grow:

• Self-Concept: Extracurricular activities help you to understand yourself better and develop a better self concept. The activities you take part in make your personality.
• Self-Assessment: Developing a self concept is not very difficult but to assess yourself and be your own judge is what makes you a better person. Extracurricular activities promote this practice. For instance, an editor of the college magazine can assess his/her success and failures far better than a person who does nothing.
• Confidence Building: Extracurricular activities help a student develop confidence inside and outside the classroom as he interacts with more people and also develops confidence in his abilities other than schoolwork.
• Socially Acceptable: It is the essential component of extracurricular activities that a kid must be social as it encourages interaction at every level. Kids who love to debate, kids who play soccer, cricket; everyone has to become socially active. According to research by Marsh (1992), social competence in kids has been proved to be a key component for success in later life.
• Inculcates Responsibility, Punctuality & Discipline: Extracurricular activities tend to make you a better person as you are given extra responsibilities and you are held accountable for your actions thus developing conscientiousness in you.
• Empathy: It makes you feel and understand the priorities of others as well. It is very important to feel for others pain and hardships to have peace at heart. Certain extracurricular activities promote empathy like visiting old house etc.
• Develops Competitiveness: When in competition, everyone tries to do his/her best. This is exactly what happens when you take part in activities, it motivates you to work hard and strive for excellence.
• Adaptation to Change: This is one of the best traits that extracurricular activities would develop in you. When you’re involved in different activities, you tend to meet different people, adjust to different situations and you’re taught to work in such different surroundings thus making you more adaptable to change.