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Six thinking hats


    The Six Thinking Hats strategy aims to simplify the thinking process and increase its effectiveness. This strategy also allows the thinker to move or change the style.

Six thinking hats


    The six colored hats are a method that an individual uses in most moments of his life. These hats emphasize that thinking is a systematic, disciplined process. Below is a description of these hats.

The White Hat (Facts)

    This hat symbolizes thinking with facts, shapes, and information. Thinking according to this hat is a response to questions such as:
  • What information is available

  • What information might we need?

  •   How to obtain this information?

    The person who wears the white hat must focus on his request in order to obtain what he needs from it. This shows that asking focused questions appropriate to the problem at hand is an important part of the mechanism of requesting information. Likewise, whoever asks questions with the aim of extracting information must also use the white hat.

    It is hoped that white hat thinking will become a disciplined system that encourages the thinker to clearly separate numbers, facts, analyzes and special interpretations. The white hat represents a neutral and objective style of thinking, as indicated by the color of the hat.

The Red Hat (Feelings)

    In contrast to the white hat, the red hat relates to emotions, feelings, and inner sentiments, requiring no justification because it doesn't pertain to logical thinking.

    Unexpressed emotions and feelings in practical thinking may remain within the learner’s cognitive framework, influencing their thinking patterns.

    Thinking with the red hat acknowledges the existence of emotions and reactions. Questions posed by those wearing this hat might include:

  • I don't like this…
  • I feel satisfied with…

    Whoever wears this hat takes official permission to express feelings about an issue.

The Black Hat (Caution and Prudence)

    This hat symbolizes fear, caution, pessimism, criticism, caution, and thinking about dangers and loss. This is what is required when making decisions, and this hat is one of the most useful hats.

    The owner of this hat asks this question:

  • What is the profit margin of this project?

    Thinking through this hat avoids making mistakes, and the color of this hat is based on strictness, frowning, and lack of knowledge.

The Yellow Hat (Optimism)

    This hat represents thinking about benefits and positives, offering an ambitious outlook for the future and highlighting the advantages of a proposed idea.

    Questions from those wearing the yellow hat might include:

  • Why can this be done?

  • Why is this a good idea?

    The yellow color symbolizes sunlight; To indicate hopes and optimism.

The Green Hat (New Ideas)

    It is the hat of optimism, creativity, growth, energy, suggestions, alternatives, possibilities, and looking at the positive aspects and exploiting them.

    The owner of this green hat asks questions such as:

  • Are there additional alternatives?

    The color green is taken from the color of trees and branches, and it indicates growth and the generation of ideas.

The Blue Hat (Verdict)

    This hat symbolizes thinking about thinking, controlling the thinking process and adjusting it in the desired direction. It is the hat of thinking, controlling, evaluating, and looking at things in a constructive, critical way. It is the hat of the thinking agenda.

    The blue hat person can ask:

  • What are the priorities?

  • What have we learned so far?

    We can start with the blue hat to determine the types of hats and their sequence, and the color is bluer than the color of the sky. Therefore, the name “Blue Hat” came to rise above all ideas, as all hats involve thinking about material things, but the Blue Hat is concerned with thinking about opinions, summarizing them, and directing dialogue and discussions.

Benefits of the Six Thinking Hats

    De Bono emphasizes that the six thinking hats work to achieve a range of benefits, including:

  • Directs attention towards multiple aspects of the issue or problem; Thus, the individual realizes that there is more than one perspective or approach to understanding or solving the issue.

  • The individual's thinking focuses on solving the problem or generating a set of solutions.

  • The Six Thinking Hats lead an individual to the most creative solutions.

  • Improving the communication process with other parties; Employing the Six Thinking Hats strategies works to adopt roles among the participating individuals, and therefore the element of communication and communication is extremely important in creative science.

  •  Improving the decision-making process of individuals.

Why the Six Hats?

    The hat is part of the things we wear, but it is easy to put on and take off, symbolizing the ease of imitating the mood of that hat and moving from one hat to another.

    There may be another relationship, which is that the head is the location of the brain responsible for thinking, and wearing one of these hats to cover the head means controlling the brain, so that it thinks in the style of the hat that carries specific laws and rules.

    The Six Hats strategy is used when we want to think about something, be it a new project, making a change to a process, developing a specific device..., or doing other work in which we want our thinking to be comprehensive, creative, and balanced.

Applying the Six Thinking Hats Strategy

    This method can be applied in a group setting or individually:

  1. In a group, roles are assigned, with one member acting as the team lead
  2. The leader reminds team members of thethe pattern of each color from time to time. 
  3. The leader determines the timing for transitioning between hats and revisiting specific hats
  4. After blue-hat thinking, the timeline of the subject is discussed to assess whether the proposed ideas fit within the set timeframe.
  5.  The leader ensures that thinking styles are regularly referenced and fosters a conducive environment for creative thinking.

    De Bono suggests allocating (3–4) minutes per hat, extendable if needed.

Practical Example 

    Applying the Six Thinking Hats to Reading a Story

    Teachers can follow these steps to discuss a story using the Six Thinking Hats strategy:

  • White Hat (Facts and Information):
  1. List the facts learned from the book.
  2. Describe the characters.
  3. Describe the events.

  • Yellow Hat (Positives):

  1. What was the most enjoyable part of the story?
  2. What were the positive actions in the story?
  • Black Hat (Negatives):
  1. What mistakes did the characters make?
  2. What problems did the characters cause?

  • Green Hat (Creativity):

  1. Design something new unrelated to the story’s characters.
  2. Propose solutions to the characters’ problems.
  • Red Hat (Emotions):
  1. How did the characters’ emotions change during the events?
  2. How did you feel about the story?
  • Blue Hat (Planning and Reflection):
  1. How has reading this story deepened your understanding of Arab society?
  2. If you were the author, what would you change?

 

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