This document is a self-profile created by Susmita Pruthi for a course on self-awareness and self-regulation. The profile outlines her values, beliefs, family background, educational and professional experiences. It describes her journey from childhood through different life stages and roles as a student, athlete, professional, wife and mother. It also addresses how she learns from experiences and seeks to improve her learning abilities through discussions with others.

1. Susmita Pruthi
ASSIGNMENT 2
NU ET511 | Assignment 3 | Self Awareness and Self Regulation
 Self-awareness and self-regulation is critical to
cognitive growth.
 Create a profile, a resume, of yourself in this context.
The profile should reflect self-awareness about yourself
as a learner (in all or many of your roles - in the
workplace, as a parent, an entrepreneur or any other
aspect that you choose.)
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2. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
This is an interactive profile . - Mahatma Gandhi
Regulation
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Every time an interaction is needed,
you would see a bright yellow star.
SUSMITA PRUTHI
- a brief profile

3. Susmita Pruthi
VALUES AND BELIEFS - SELF
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 Your Life is what decisions you take in life and how you
live your life with those decisions.
 Decision making/taking starts from the time you are born.
 There are many influencers in your life – positive and
negative. Life’s experience teaches you to differentiate
between the two. Till then, you depend on who you believe
are important in your life – Mother, Father, Elder brother,
sister etc.
 My parents have always been the guide but not the
decision makers of my life – they have left that to me. This
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itself has been a continuous learning process for me.

4. Susmita Pruthi
VALUES AND BELIEFS - SELF
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 Be positive towards life
 Be compassionate to yourself and to the world
 Don’t refuse negative emotions, Feel defeat and fear
and keep persevering
 Give the benefit of the doubt and don’t be judgemental
 Express your true self by being gentle and honest and
through thoughts and actions
 Appreciate success and happiness of other people
 Follow your dreams and desires
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5. Susmita Pruthi
ABOUT THE FAMILY
Second sibling in a set of three children. Part of a joint family
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with three younger cousin brothers.
 Father a Professor of West Asian Studies at JNU, an eminent
scholar of International Relations with a special focus and
interest in defense capabilities of different countries and
their impact on inter country political relationships.
 Mother a traditional housewife with special interest in pre-
primary education. Encouraged by her daughters, she took
up getting her professional Nursery Teacher training degree
at the age of 40.
 Looked up to the elder sister as the guiding light till the age
of 25. Elder sister proved to be a silent fighter and continues
to be.
 Had been the leader for the younger brother till moving out
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6. Susmita Pruthi
LIFE’S JOURNEY
ADOLESCENCE
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CHILDHOOD Father’s frequent travels abroad
for long durations and brother still
Fun loving, outdoor girl enjoying
a young kid, took up the charge of
school life – studies, sports,
all outdoor tasks – vegetables,
friends.
monthly groceries and all – biking
Chosen as the School Head Girl in
three kms one way all alone. This
class 4 for Junior School. Helped
experience turned out to be the
discipline the school full of
biggest initial learning experience
rowdies.
in life.
Started travelling long distances
alone.
TEENAGER
Moved into competitive sports, while academic life
continued. During free time, competed in Music and Dance
competitions too.
Competing in individual sports as well as team sports led to
self management and confidence building as well as bring 6
the same into a team as the Team Captain.

7. Susmita Pruthi
LIFE’S JOURNEY . . . AS IT CONTINUED
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 Learning experiences during different stages in life have
played a major influencer in my life there onwards.
 1984 - With a the big opportunity of turning a national volley
ball player in my first year in college, I made the biggest
decision of my life to move away and take up a professional
degree course – Hotel Management.
 And I proved myself for the next 10 years to reach the post of
a Banquets / Restaurant Manager. These years gave an
exposure of varied nature of experience
 Coping in a male dominated industry and yet holding your own and
proving it
 Leading teams of semi-literate males into industry literacy as well
as life literacy
 Confidence to go abroad and set my mark
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 My life partner – 12 years elder and from a different community

8. Susmita Pruthi
LIFE’S JOURNEY . . . A CHANGE OF COURSE
Till now, I had become a wife as well as a mother of a two
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year old daughter. Life was very satisfying but the quality
and quantity time that I wished to share with my daughter
was not happening.
 I was blessed to be married into a very forward looking
family who have always encouraged me to take my ‘right’
decisions and stood by me always.
 1994 - So instead of carrying on living with this agony, I
decided to change it . . . I quit my professional life and went
back to classroom to train myself for a career that would be
equally challenging professionally but be able to spare me
the time for my children.
 I joined NIIT for their 5 semester GNIIT – Software Exports
program with 2 semesters of Professional Practice. I also
parallely joined DU’s graduate program through
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correspondence.

9. Susmita Pruthi
LIFE’S JOURNEY . . . CLIMBING A STEEP HILL
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 The next four years were a roller coaster of events,
exposures and experiences.
 Challenging studying pattern for two separate courses,
health challenges of mother-in-law leading her to be bed-
ridden, having my second daughter as well as building a
house for my family all alone (husband had continue to be
abroad) ….. A lot was achieved in these 4 years.
 My parents had continued to be my sounding board till
now, but I matured to go on my own here onwards.
 As luck would have it, I got to join NIIT as a Software
developer.
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10. Susmita Pruthi
LIFE’S JOURNEY . . . AS A MOTHER
I have been a ‘different’ mother right from the beginning.
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 I have been termed as ‘weird’ as I have been
 Talking to my new borns when they traditionally can’t
‘understand’
 Talking to kids about things when they don’t understand the
relevance
 Expose them to ‘controversial’ topics and debate with them so
that they understand the basic logics
 Apart from singing to them till now and having endless story-
telling sessions which have now become life experience sharing
talks
 Continue to sing and dance with them still
 Joke and tease them till now
 Just repeating what my parents did with me and adding
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a little bit of my personality to it!

11. Susmita Pruthi
LIFE’S JOURNEY . . . AS A PROFESSIONAL
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 Keeping your values and beliefs intact, one must be on
the path of constant change.
 In Hotels
 Kept seeking a profile change by moving from one specialty
restaurant to the next, even the opening of a discotheque and
a night club.
 This led to constant upgradation/learning of the needs/scope
of servicing for that specialty. It also involved imparting
relevant info/skill to the downline.
 Many scenarios/situations/experiences led to additive
knowledge creation
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12. Susmita Pruthi
LIFE’S JOURNEY . . . AS A PROFESSIONAL
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 In IT industry
 Even in this industry, having been exposed to a variety of
roles, on job learning has included
 Increase in IT knowledge
 Increase in customer awareness – requirements, needs, solutions
 Increase in Subject knowledge – SW development, technology,
Subjects other than ITW
 Increase in skills – team management, product development,
leadership
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13. Susmita Pruthi
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
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 How do you learn?
 Self paced
 Self learned and applied through experiences
 Real life experiences
 From others experiences
 What prevents you from learning?
 Time constraints
 In some cases, mindset
 In some cases, capability
 How can you improve your learning abilities?
 Releasing more time, relaxed time
 Discussions with peers / colleagues / subordinates /
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supervisor