Answer Key

Artificial Intelligence - 9
Part A - Employability Skills
Unit 2: Self-management Skills-I

Review (Pg. 27)

Fill in the blanks.
1. Personality management 2. Self-control
3. Self-evaluation, Self-reinforcement 4. Self-management
5. Positivity

Quiz Time (Pg. 27)

Responsibility

Quick Guess (Pg. 28)

Self-awareness

Let's Review (Pg. 29)

Write T for True and F for False.
1. T 2. T 3. F

Quiz Time (Pg. 30)

b.

Let's Review (Pg. 31)

Fill in the blanks.
1. social 2. self-perception 3. self-belief 4. commitment

Exercises (Pgs. 33-35)

A. Tick (✓) the correct answers.
1. c. 2. b. 3. a. 4. All are correct
5. a. 6. c. 7. c. 8. a.
9. a. 10. c.
B. Fill in the blanks.
1. Stress management 2. abilities 3. social
4. Self-awareness 5. negative 6. commitment
7. self-control 8. acquired 9. respect
10. Teamwork
C. Write T for True and F for False.
1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F
6. T 7. T 8. T 9. F 10. T
D. Short answer type questions
1. Time management refers to making efforts to prioritise tasks according to their importance
and time in hand to increase a person's productivity. Preparing a timetable for work, play, and
relaxation activities and sticking to the allotted timings helps with time management. Hence, it is
important in self-management.
2. Some advantages of effective self-management are as follows:
³³ It helps you in utilising your abilities, skills, and knowledge to the fullest.
³³ It keeps you motivated, so that you can work towards achieving your goals.
³³ It gives you the confidence to deal with any situation effectively.
³³ It makes you more organised, so that you can achieve more in a limited time.
³³ It helps you in managing stress whether physical or emotional.
3. One of the many benefits of performing a strength and weakness analysis is that it helps in
identifying areas one is strong or weak in. It is one of the ways to develop self-awareness as
it also helps you to focus your energy on your strengths and convert your weaknesses into
strengths. Analysing these strengths and weaknesses is important for developing self-awareness
which is the act of knowing oneself better.
4. Conversing with positive people is a great way to ensure positive feelings as it boosts self-
confidence. Surrounding oneself with genuine and supportive people helps us to improve
ourselves and inspire us to be better.
5. One major tip for developing self-confidence is to think positive. Positive thinking means
developing a mentality where you look at the positive side of things and stay happy from within.
A positive approach keeps you calm, helps you learn from your mistakes, and lets you work
towards your goals. This also means doing away with negativity and not thinking about your
weaknesses constantly. Negativity can also come from personal and emotional issues. One of the
ways to tackle such issues is to discuss them openly with the right people.
6. The qualities of self-confident people are as follows:
³³ Self-belief: Faith in one's abilities and judgment.
³³ Hard work: The ability to put in the effort required to achieve important goals.
³³ Positive attitude: Learn from challenges and failures instead of being discouraged.
³³ Commitment: Dedicating oneself physically and mentally to the responsibility at hand.
7. Personal hygiene helps a lot in developing self-confidence. Staying clean and grooming oneself
helps in improving self-perception and how others perceive us. Activities like bathing regularly,
trimming the nails and hair, wearing clean and proper clothes, and exercising regularly also adds
to your mental peace and lets you focus on your work.
8. Good habits help us maintain good health and physique which are needed to perform to the
best of our abilities, thus improving our self-management skills.
9. Hockey would be his ability as it is a naturally acquired skill, and playing cricket would be his
interest because of his curiosity.
10. The importance of self-management is as follows:
³³ Self-management teaches you to self-monitor your behaviour. When you monitor your
conduct and behaviour you begin to take ownership of tasks that you are responsible for, and
you become more proactive.
³³ Self-management helps in self-evaluation which further allows you to set individual goals and
make timely course corrections if you find that you are moving away from the path toward
the goal.
 ³³ Self-management leads to self-reinforcement which motivates you to pick up the right habits
and prevents you from indulging in negative things.
E. Long answer type questions
1. Some skills that help in self-management are as follows:
³³ Self-awareness: It refers to the ability to understand your strengths, limitations, and emotions
in a better manner, so that you can enhance the positive qualities and learn to overcome the
negatives.
³³ Self-confidence: It refers to belief in one's own ability to achieve goals and face challenges.
³³ Self-control: It refers to the ability to develop your willpower, so that you do not give in to
temptation.
³³ Self-motivation: It refers to finding the driving force within you to do something instead of
relying on a continuous post from outside.
³³ Positivity: It refers to an attitude that helps you to see the positive side of things and move
continuously towards your goals.
2. Small things in life can bring contentment. Contentment in turn brings peace of mind. The
small things can include minor achievements in daily life; good things happening to people you
care about, brief periods of doing something you enjoy, and so on. Being grateful for the small
blessings, including people in your life, helps you notice that there are many positive things in
your life and keeps you confident. Thus, improving the confidence of a person.
3. The process requires you to think about yourself beyond typical defining characteristics, like
name, family, occupation, and so on. Talking to people who know you well and being open to
receiving honest feedback from them is also helpful. Your strengths and weaknesses could be
related to a wide range of aspects, including the following:
³³ Subjects taught in your school or college
³³ Sports
³³ Arts
³³ Practical skills
³³ Your interactions with people around you.
4. The three kinds of factors associated with one’s self-confidence are as follows:
³³ Social factors: It refers to your relationship with people around you especially, family members
and friends. The feeling of belongingness and affection that you get from these people has a
positive impact on your self-confidence.
³³ Physical factors: It refers to factors like personal health, grooming, and perception about one’s
appearance. If you are healthy and well-groomed and feel that people have a good opinion of
your appearance you tend to be more confident.
³³ Cultural factors: It refers to the values and customs of people around you. If you feel
pressured by these customs and forced to do things you do not believe in, it could negatively
affect your self-confidence.
5. Meditation is an activity that can help in many ways including helping develop several
self-management skills. Neuroscientists have found that when you ask your brain to meditate
it gets better with time at self-control, tension, stress management, and self-awareness. In
Indian culture, meditation has been known for more than 2000 years as a means to gain
self-knowledge.
6. Self-management can be defined as the strategic management of one's abilities and resources
throughout one’s life to achieve personal goals and become more productive. Self-management
 involves understanding yourself better, being aware of your abilities, developing a positive
attitude, grooming yourself, and taking responsibility to give your best. Self-management skills
can help you to manage time, resources and your ability and sentiments to overcome the
situation. A self-managed person has been compared to a tree that does not only take care of
itself but also helps other plants growing around it.
Knowledge increases self-esteem and the ability to do things. This aspect includes developing the
curiosity to learn. Knowledge also plays a vital role in effective self-management which works like
a skill in the process.
7. Some ways to develop self-motivation are as follows:
³³ Find the driving force within you to do rather than relying on a continuous push from others.
³³ Set short-term goals that can lead to the attainment of long-term goals.
³³ Measure your daily progress.
8. Interests are activities that you enjoy doing and want to learn more about whereas on the other
hand abilities are related to your natural or acquired skills. For example, a person may have
good artistic skills as an ability and may be interested in sports at the same time. When interests
and abilities match, they become your most important strengths, and you are able to perform
those tasks better than most people around you. If you are interested in something, but your
ability in that area is not strong enough, you can work to improve your ability in that area.
9. To inculcate positive thinking, there is a mantra called SMILE.
S: Start your day in a positive way: Before starting work in the morning, spend some time
indulging in a positive activity that you enjoy, such as watching a motivational video, doing yoga,
or talking to a positive person.
M: Over a short break during the day or over a longer period once your work is over, do
something that is calming for you. It could be meditating for a few minutes, listening to music,
or watching a rejuvenating video.
I: Imagine the best in any situation. Do not focus on how things can go bad; think of how you
can make them better! Even the darkest clouds have a silver lining; learn to notice the positive
aspects of things.
L: Learn to accept a feedback positively. Instead of being offended when someone shares the
feedback with you, focus on how it can help you improve yourself.
E: Express gratitude and be thankful for the good things in your life and the people who want
good things for you. Let them know, you appreciate them.
10. Being committed to a task means dedicating oneself physically and mentally to the responsibility
at hand. An example of this could be scoring well in exams wherein a student wants to score
well by physically studying for exams and mentally preparing themselves and concentrating on
the ways they can improve themselves.
F. Application-based questions
1. a. Time management
b. Teamwork
c. Personality management
d. Responsibility
e. Stress management
2. c.