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Six Thinking Hats is the title and subject of a book by Edward De Bono, published in 1985.



De Bono considered human cognition and thought to be of several types, approaches, or orientations.





The main purposes of using Six Thinking Hats are:

focus and improve the thinking process

encourage creative, parallel and lateral thinking

improve communication

speed up decision making

avoid debate





How you do it:



write your idea at the top of the page

‘wear’ each hat in turn

write the colour of the hat and the thoughts that come to you while you´re wearing it

repeat for each different hat

read what you‘ve written – where is your idea strongest and weakest?

how can you improve or change it?