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THINKING HATS
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THINKING
HATS
https://www.learning-mind.com/six-
thinking-hats-theory/
The Six Thinking Hats Theory
The Six Thinking Hats is essentially a decision-making tool that you
can add to your arsenal. It is ultimately designed to facilitate
decision making in a group but can be adopted into making an
individual decision.
The Six Thinking Hats Theory
It’s about coming from different angles or approaching any given
problem from a certain specific standpoint or strategy. The six
thinking hats, categorized by color, are important when used alone
or together.
1.White hat
The white hat represents just the facts in any
given situation. This hat is used first and
foremost to state the obvious and the
material. Factual information, looking at what
you have and noticing what is absent can be
used to help find a solution.

They use everything to analyze past trends

and learn from them. Common questions
include:
What information is available right now?
What do we need and what is missing?
How are we going to get any needed or
missing information?
When you’re wearing a white hat, you’re not
in idea-generating mode, although you can
report on ideas that others suggest. If this
mindset had a catchphrase, it would be “Just
the facts, ma’am!”
2. Red hat
This hat is utilized when an emotional way
of thinking is present. This is where your
intuition comes into play, as you start to
judge things by the vibes you get from
them. Although the red hat goes by this
powerful emotion, you have to be careful to
keep a certain amount of control over the
red hat mentality.
They ask questions like:

How does this make me feel?

How does this make other people feel?
What’s my hunch about this?
Are there any internal conflicts?
3. Yellow hat
On a positive note, the yellow hat is
optimistic, making us see the best and
nothing less. This mindset tries to see all the
good things in certain situations. Even if it’s a
severe problem, those who think with this
mindset will see something that benefits
them or others, even in its most minute form.
Questions you can expect from a yellow hat
thinker include:
1. What’s the best way to approach this
issue?
2. What positive outcomes could result?
3. How can we make it work?
4. What are the long-term benefits?
5. Green hat
The green hat allows you to do
something interesting in the midst
of your problems or specific
situations. This hat governs all
creative thoughts that could help
you alter, fix or accept the given
issues.
They ask questions like:
1. Can we do this a different way?
2. How can I think outside the box
about this issue?
3. How can we adopt a unique
perspective?
6. Blue hat
This hat is used for process control. When you’re
facing a problem and utilizing logic and positive
thinking, the blue hat mentality will be able to lead you
over to creative ideas with the green hat or even your
“worst-case” scenarios navigated by the black hat
mindset. This is probably why blue hats are compared
to movie directors (or project managers!) responsible
for making multiple moving parts work in unison. They
ask themselves questions like:

What problem are we facing?

What are the desired outcome?
What will solving this problem achieve?
What is the most effective method of proceeding?
4. Black hat
On the flip side of the yellow hat thinking
model, you get the black hat. The way
the black hat works is by forcing you to
think negatively in order to weed out
potential future problems. They’re
cautious and look for reasons why
something might not work, asking
questions like:

Will this really work?

How is this likely to fail
How can we justify this financially?