NPTEL-Developing Soft Skills And Personality Week-1 Assignment 1 Answer

                Week 1: Assignment 1

                                                 ANSWERS

 1)What does learning mean?

Learning to search information through Google

Human interaction with the environment that results in a permanent change in behavior

Ability to store and reproduce knowledge

Getting employed in a reputed company with excellent pay package

Earning a lot of certificates to make one's family proud

Knowing how to compete with others and win

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2)As suggested in the lessons, what can we do before we die?

We need to earn the respect of our neighbors.

We need to accumulate enough money for our children.

We need to travel the world as much as possible.

We need to rid the world of social and economic injustice.

We need to enjoy our personal and professional lives as much as we possibly can.

We need to ascertain our purpose, meaning, and mission in life, and live a fruitful life before death catches us unawares.

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3)How would you go about planning for your life’s mission?

i. Set yourself short-term and long-term goals. 

ii. Evaluate your performance at the end of a day, a week, a month, and then a year at a time. 

iii. Ascertain the purpose and ultimate mission in your life. 

iv. Note the things you have done well, and where you would like to improve. 

v. Visualize where you would like to see yourself progressively at the end of 5,10, 15, and 25 years. 

Select the correct order from the options below: 

iii, ii, v, i, iv 

ii, iv, v, ii, i 

iii, i, v, ii, iv 

v, i, iii, ii, iv

iii, v, i, ii, iv 

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4)Which of the following is NOT part of soft skills?

 Self-awareness 

 Handling Stress 

 Emotional Intelligence 

 Embroidery

 Patience

 Self-confidence

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5)Imagine the following scenario: A member of your family keeps misunderstanding your message. No matter how much you try, they just do not seem to be complying with your wish. As an emotionally balanced person, what would you choose to do? 

 Shout at the person and show dissatisfaction

 Find a way to punish the family member. 

 Talk to him/her calmly to understand their viewpoint. 

 Calmly ignore the person.

 Gang up with other family members to bully the person into accept your views. 

 Emotionally blackmail the person.

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6) Identify the belief that clearly indicates the Law of Abundance: 

 The belief that every human being should have access to an unlimited amount of wealth 

 The belief that one needs to do enough charity work 

 The belief that if one is calm in difficult situations, good things will happen 

 The belief in the unlimited riches of the universe

 The belief that even a lazy person that remains idle will become successful one day 

 The belief that there are too many people on this planet 

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7)Who is the author of the following quotation: “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

 Oscar Wilde

 Steve Jobs

 Abraham Maslow

 Stephen Covey

 Warren Buffet

 Danah Zohar

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8)You are doing a well-paying job, have money, status, and material comfort. But you feel that your talents and potentials are not realized to their fullest extent. In such a situation, which of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is not getting fulfilled for you?

 Emotional needs

 Physiological Needs

 Self-actualization needs

 Esteem needs

 Safety Needs

 Social Needs

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9)Why does Abraham Maslow say that a musician must make music, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself?

 Because society needs people to do things they are actually good at

 Because they will be arrested by the police otherwise. 

 Because what a man can be, he must be. 

 Because their families would then be happy. 

 Because it is morally wrong to not do the job that you have been chosen by God to do. 

 Because the society needs as many musicians and writers as it can possibly get. 

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10)What does the Japanese term "Kaizen" mean

 Radical Change

 Unfortunate happening

 Efficient time management

 Continuous improvement 

 Stagnancy

 Emotional Intelligence 

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11)Why are soft skills extremely important in life? 

 They are not. Conventional intelligence is the most important thing in life. 

 Soft skills are people skills. Hence, knowing how to interact efficiently with the people around us will bring harmony and peace in life. 

 Soft skills are useful to get in a roundabout manner what one cannot get in a straightforward manner.

 Soft skills are necessary to make people highly manipulatable and marketable. 
 Soft skills teach you to better interact with the people with whom you spend maximum time, in order to derive harmony and peace in your life.  
 Soft skills help people who are not exceptionally talented to somehow survive in an increasingly competitive world.  

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12)What are some of the most crucial takeaways from Steve Jobs’s commencement address? 

  Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking that you have something to lose. 

 All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. 

 Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to him. Going to bed at night saying they've done something wonderful; that’s what matters to him. 

 It is an overwhelming thought, that one day you will have to die and none of what you're doing right now will be relevant to you on your dying day.

 Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

 The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

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 13)What did Stephen Covey learn from his life-changing experience on the New York subway? 

 One must maintain a sense of decorum in a public space. 

 One does not know the struggles that an individual might be going through internally. 

 It is important to know the other person’s reasons or perspectives before we judge them. 

 No matter who you are you must respect a social code. 

 Seek first to understand; then to be understood.

  One can feel pity for a person in distress, but that does not mean that one should compromise on discipline. 

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14)After going through the lessons of Module 1, what according to you should our Self-Management and Planning Skills reflect? 

 Thinking about the end-result before beginning a new task 

 Setting yourself new goals in the middle of accomplishing the task 
 Determining your priorities before undertaking a task 

 Committing to do only high value tasks 

 Using will-power and perseverance to complete the tasks in time 

 Planning to work as hard as possible, without being particularly conscious of the goal 

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15)Imagine you are a team-leader in your office who has to turn in a certain number of deliverables to your boss at the end of a work-day. You have a member of your team who turns up to work, sick. Which of the following actions would reflect empathy, on your part?

 Ask him about what is ailing him.

 Ask him, if he would like to take a day off, and distribute his share of the work equally among the other members of the team. 

 Let him know that he is responsible for his share of the work, and he should not offer unprofessional excuses like being sick.

 Tell him that being sick is his personal problem – why bring it up to you? 

 Threaten him that if he is unable to do his share of the work, then he would have to answer to your boss at the end of the day. 

 Tell him gently that if he feels well enough to work for some time then he can work as much as he can, and the rest of the day he can take off. 

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16)Which of the following qualities tell you that a person is self-aware?

 She wants to imitate the way her role-models carry themselves in public.

 She understands who or what makes her angry. 

 She understands that divine blessing, not hard-work, is needed for accomplishing anything in life. 

 She understands her driving forces. 
 She understands what makes her procrastinate, and how she can overcome it. 
 She understands what makes her feel calm and motivated.

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17)If you possess spiritual intelligence, you would be?

 Selfless

 Devotional

 Contemplative

 Compassionate

 Contemptuous

 Courageous

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18)Which of the following qualities are seen in people with a strong personality?

 Low self-esteem

 Pessimism

 Fixed mindset

 Confidence
 Ability to learn from failure

 Poverty of Mind

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19)Which of the following are NOT traits of an emotionally balanced person?

 Someone who starts to shake in anger at the first sign of altercation.
 Someone who avoids expressing their liking for a person for fear of not having their feeling reciprocated.
 Someone who feels slighted when their junior colleague criticizes them.

 Someone who is not afraid of admitting when their feelings have been hurt.

 Someone who does not try to avoid situations that cause them anxiety.

 Someone who tries to offer constructive criticism, instead of squarely placing the blame on someone else.

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20)Identify the constructive ways that you can relieve stress.

 Go for a quiet walk.

 Take recreational drugs.

 Eat plenty of junk food.

 Shut yourself up in your room for half an hour.

 Watch your favorite movie.
 Take deep breaths and/or meditate.

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21)A person who can think rationally and make objective decisions even when consumed by their emotion, is said to be an emotionally stable person.

 True

 False

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22)People with a growth mind-set always reject criticism.

 True

 False

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23)People with a poverty of mind possess great risk-taking ability. 

 True

 False

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24)The Japanese term “Kaikaku” means gradual realization of your mission.

 True

 False

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25)The first need according to Abraham Maslow is physiological need.

 True

 False