text: Secondly, an extracurricular activity will help you build skills that you can use on a day to day basis. Doing an extracurricular activity requires you to interact with a lot of new people. By interacting with new people you will build lots of new social skills that will help change you from a shy person, to a kind outgoing person. Most extracurricular activities are only one hour a day. Since the activities have a short time to do everything, they will teach you how to manage your time and how to stay organized. Not only will you learn skills that will help you from a day to day basis, but some of the extracurricular activities will teach you skills that you can use to show off.