Six Hats Thinking Process
Six hats represent [point of view
- White hat Objective facts and data
- Red hat Anger, passion, emotional perspective
- Black hat Earnest and thoughtful, alert and careful, pointing out weaknesses in thinking
- Yellow hat Bright, positive, optimistic, hope and positive thinking
- Green caps Images of plants, fruitful growth, creativity and the birth of new ideas
- Blue hat calmness, color of the sky, image of transcendence, composing the process of thinking or controlling the use of other hats
pair
- White and Red
- Black and yellow
- Green and Blue
- This is the only subtle one.
Compare with [Four-Player Framework
Bystander is blue
Opposer is black
I think Mover is green and Follower is yellow.
The rest.
- Red may Follower or Opposer emotionally.
- White may calmly Follower or Opposer with data.
- Okay, the red-white axis seems to be going straight.
In this book, it is translated as parallel thinking, but is it the same as lateral thinking?
- Is it different from the horizontal thinking of "lateral" because it is pretended to be "parallel?"
- There's a chapter on horizontal thinking in the chapter on green hats, which is different.
- The word imagination is ambiguous; it is imagination that creates confusion and harmony.
- Horizontal thinking is "pattern transformation of asymmetric exchange systems."
just as logical thinking is based on the principle of action in a symbolic language (a particular worldview).
Horizontal thinking is based on the behavioral principles of pattern systems (also a particular worldview)
This is a translation that the translator doesn't understand.
- I think he means symbol manipulation.
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