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Arousal - the spectrum from drowsiness to manic anxiety, and how we have to manage this effectively
Challenge - has to match your level of ability
Communication - how you are able to contextualise your work
Confidence - the other factors enhance this
Constructs - and the need to be flexible
Emotions - a tacit response resource
Environment - does it help or hinder you?
Humour - can be inclusive (facilitating social cohesion), exclusive (aimed as an attack on certain people) or abstract (where social situations begin to generate creative potential)
Imagination - well documented basis for creativity
Incubation - immerse yourself in all the information, then allow the subconscious to work for you.
Knowledge management
Moods - you have to learn to control them
Motivation - see above
Nutrition - we cannot be 'academic' and ignore these important, holistic facts; cognition can be influenced by the this
Play - great tool for concept building; simulations
Sleep - as with nutrition
Stimulation - we need it; can intellectual or environmental
Stress - enough to dynamise us; not so much that we begin to suffer
Support - can be knowledge, financial or social
Recognise thinking styles - what works best; being flexible
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