Six Thinking Hats

Been away a bit... just finished a move back to MI and full time Fitz Family. Ready to be more consistent with these now.

Six thinking hats. An interesting way to consider how our brains work things out.
Came across this on Mind Tools.

Each "Thinking Hat" is a different style of thinking. These are explained below:

White Hat: focus on the data available, information, analyze past trends, extrapolate from historical data.

Red Hat: look at the decision using intuition, gut reaction, and emotion.

Black Hat: look at things pessimistically, cautiously and defensively. important because it highlights the weak points in a plan or course of action, allows you to prepare contingency plans to counter problems.

Yellow Hat: helps you to think positively, the optimistic viewpoint that helps you to keep going when everything looks gloomy and difficult.

Green Hat: creativity, freewheeling way of thinking, in which there is little criticism of ideas. A whole range of creativity tools can help you here.

Blue Hat: process control, worn by people chairing meetings. When running into difficulties because ideas are running dry, they may direct activity into Green Hat thinking. When contingency plans are needed, they will ask for Black Hat thinking, and so on.