Six Thinking Hats

 

Everyone has his/her own perspective in seeing things. I believe that one! Even, we can see a single same glass on a table in many different perspectives. You see it right from above but I see it from below. Actually, what we see is the same – a glass on the table, but for sure we see it differently.

Dr. Edward de Bono proposed six thinking hats to give us the pictures of having many perspectives. He determined six different colored hats (red, yellow, white, black, green, and blue) as our different thinking ways. Red is representative for an intuition thinking way. Yellow is informative. White is constructive. Black is cautious. Green is creative. The last but not least, blue is reflective.

When you use a red hat, it means that mostly you take an action of something (that you think is good) by using your intuition. You follow your heart on it.

The yellow hat is the sunshine hat! It means that you think in always the positive side. You build up your spirit by thinking of something in a good way.

White hat is the information seeker hat. You always want to find out the facts. You think in a neutral way, based on the information and the facts you find.

The black hat is the cautious hat. You are always cautious on something, whether the steps you are taking gives you any risk. You are cautious on the risk it follows.

The green hat means that you are creative. The green itself symbolizes the growth and the development. Your mind is full of fresh ideas. It means that you always seeks for new ideas and the solution of something.

Finally, blue hat is the control hat. You are the controller in here. You make things under control. You are focus and you could provoke the use of the other hats. You like to reflect on something that happened to you.

I think from those six thinking hats, Dr Edward de Bono is trying to say that we have many kinds of thinking ways. It is good to have our own perspectives in seeing things, but it is better if we also see others perspectives. So that we dont see only the bad side of something happens, but we also see the good side on it, and we could make new ideas for the solution it takes for the risk it follows.  

Reflection: 

Now think about the situation around us. The simple one: when the flood occurs. What would you do? Try to apply these six thinking hats for you to think before taking a further action. Use the red one, then you will take an acting using your intuition, what will you do next when you are stuck on the flood. Sometimes your feeling tells you something right. Then, when you use the yellow one, you will think positively that may be this flood happens because God is blessing with water He gave. So, you do not always have to see the negative side like this flood happens because the goverenment fails to cover it up and so on and so forth.