We've all got that teammate who is over eager in the warm doing bumps and giving corkies to half the team before the siren's even gone.
We've all got that teammate who seems to have not actually woken up from bed even though he managed to drive 30mins to the ground without incident.
Arousal can be a powerful tool if you know ho to harness and modify it correctly but I'll just list a few dot points about it right now and will possibly do something bigger on it very soon.
Arousal is:
- Your state of readiness
- Refers to your physical, emotional and mental state
- Is a measure of your internal energy level (think butterflies)
- It also includes your psychological (anger, confidence, fear, butterflies) and physiological (pulse, breathing, core temperature) elements.
- Each of us has an optimal arousal level
- We also have personal optimal arousal levels for various tasks
- New and difficult tasks usually go with low arousal as you're probably taking more output, thinking more and taking longer to make decisions
- Well-learned and easy tasks usually go with high arousal
- Most tasks are in the medium range
- You need to develop routines for decreasing, increasing and maintaining arousal to avoid burn out
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