Reflection Journal (EE) : Six Thinking Hats by Dr. Edward de Bono

Let's we watch this video first !!!

 

Do you get the point from this video?

Well, let me explain more about six thinking hats by Edward de Bono.

Six thinking hat describe the ways of our thingking actually. Sometimes we didn' realize what kinds of thinking that we have whether it is a 'reflective', 'intuitive', 'constructive', 'creative', 'cautious' or 'informative' thinking. Okay, before we continue this topic about, let see the pictures bellow ^__^

Use your hat to think about that condition. If necessary, you can also use the whole six thinking hats to get different oppinion with different perspective of thinking. And then what do you think ?

After using the six thinking hats to think about the condition in that picture above. Now you have understood which one is better to use in our thinking right? If you still don't understand, here i'll give you the explanation about each hats to make it clear. Just read it and decide which one better. 


The Red Hat :
What do you feel?
What are your gut reactions?
What's your intuition?
Do not think too long or too heavy.


The White Hat :
Information seekers.

What are the facts?
What information is available?
Is this information relevant?

Neutral in thought.

The Yellow Hat :
The sunshine hat.
Positive and constructive.
Effectiveness and tried to get the job done

What are the benefits?

The Black Hat :
The Caution hat.
Thinking about the error.
Are the risks?
Identify the problem.

The Green Hat :

Creative.

Green symbolizes growth and development.

Looking for ideas and new solutions.

Lateral thinking.

The Blue Hat :

The control hat,

Organising think.

Focus and elicit the use of another hat .

Monitor and reflect the thinking process.

Blue is for planning.

So which one is yours ? And Which one is better?

Okay,,, I think we can use the whole of Six Thinking Hats for thinking based on context. When we want to get the information, we can use the white one or when we want to think about the negative impact, we can use the black one. But....Try to use the blue one to contol our all hats okay?

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