How to Develop Personality as a Student

How to Develop Personality as a Student, If we hear the word personality, the first thing that comes to mind is looks. Generally, people think that when we say that someone has a good personality, we interpret it as he is a good-looking guy. But it’s not true. Looks are just a small part of the personality. And also when we say that looks are a part of personality we do not mean a beautiful or handsome guy, but someone who is well dressed, proper haircut, ironed clothes, etc. 

Components of Personality

Let us deep dive into it. Though personality is made up of many essential things, the most important components of personality are as follows:-

• Adaptation and Coping Mechanism
• Social interaction and interpersonal relationships
• Emotions and emotional expression 
• Character
• Trait Dimension
• Temperament
• Cognition and thinking styles
• Motivations and Values
• Self-concept and identity
• Self-regulation and self-control

All these things together form the personality of a person. If you work on these areas and improve in them, then you would be making the best use of all opportunities coming your way. 

Why is developing personality necessary?

It is very necessary to work on your personality as a student. There are various advantages that you would be getting with a good personality. Some of them are as follows:-

• Increased self-confidence 
• Improved relationships
• Effective leadership
• Excellent communication skills
• Adaptability and Resilience 
• Career Advancement 
• Positive attitude
• Stress management
• Personal growth and fulfillment

How a student can improve his/ her personality

Now many of you might think that personality plays a key role in success. If I am decent in my studies and knowledge I can easily manage to succeed without a good personality. But this is not possible. Without a good personality, it is very difficult for one to get ahead of their peers. As a student, you can develop your personality in a much more effective way as compared to adults.  This is because adults have already built their personalities and now it would be difficult for them to change them. As a student, you are at a stage where you are now forming your personality. So you have better chances to ace it. So below are some ways by which you would be able to gradually develop your personality. 

1) Proper Analysis of Strength and Weaknesses

You can take your time and analyse your strengths, weaknesses, and interests. With the help of this analysis, you would be able to make a good decision regarding your goal. 

2) Continuous Learning

You can seek knowledge beyond your studies on a variety of topics and broaden your perspective. This would ensure that you can take part in almost every conversation and maintain a good network with people from different domains. 

3) Speaking and Writing skills

Work on improving speaking and writing skills as it is very necessary for personal as well as professional growth. 

4) Listening skills

Develop your listening skills. Listening skills are the most underrated skill but are a very important component of personality as it shows that you pay attention when other people speak and show your interest in talks.

5) Social skills

Work on your social skills by participating in various group activities, and clubs. Extracurricular activities, etc.

6) Time Management

Learn to manage your time effectively and efficiently. This will make you ready for a strict deadline.

7) Accept failure and learn from it

You should never fear failure, especially when you are a student. Because as a student you do not have responsibility for someone else and therefore your mistakes would have the least impact on others and would give you a lot of learning. 

8) Stress Management 

Develop stress management techniques such as exercise, breathing meditation, etc. from a very young age. This would help you to stay calm and think better in the worst situations. 

This differentiated table would help you understand how personality would affect your life and help you grow. 

People with good Personality	People who lack Personality
talk and listen well, and as a result, people love to spend time with them.	They would be generally either only listening or speaking. If they only listen, people will think he does not have his own opinion, and if he only speaks people will think he does not listen to people and do whatever he wants.
They will feel confident about themself which would encourage them to try new things	They would always resist doing new things and not want to come out of their comfort zone.
They will have the ability to manage time effectively and efficiently.	They will always struggle with deadlines.
Their social skills will help them to make a good network.	Due to a lack of social skills, they would not be able to network well.
They would be able to collaborate.	They would not be able to collaborate effectively.

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