Six Thinking Hats

{{Term|SIX THINKING HATS|Technique for decision making based on the principle that a same issue to be fully understood and considered should be exlpored form many different perspectives (symbolized by the hats). The same technique can be used also ex-post, to assess past experiences from every point of view. The use of this technique allows necessary emotion and skepticism, as well as good expectation, to be brought into the decision making process, that otherwise would be purely rational. The Six Thinking Hats strategy also forces participants to move outside their habitual thinking style and not to feel ashamed to speak about their emotions and fears, so that they can reach a more rounded view of the situation. The various perspectives that the participants have to assume are symbolized by six hats of different colors, that represent six modes of thinking and directions to think rather then labels for thinking. The six hats are: White Hat: Objective, neutral thinking related to facts, numbers, information. Red Hat: Emotional, includes feelings, suspicions and intuitions Black Hat: Negative, critic, seeks for risks elements and things that could represent a problem. Yellow Hat: Positive and optimistic, seeks the good elements. Green Hat: Creative, seeks alternative. Blue Hat: Thinking about thinking (meta-thinking). The blue thinker’s role is to control what thinking is necessary to scout the subject.

All the participants should be “wearing” the same hat at the same time and brainstorm all together the same issue. Everyone should express his/her own personal opinion from each of the six perspective, not allowing someone to skip a point of view that they don’t usually use. ^[1]
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