Six Thinking Hats
by Edward de Bono
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Book Reviews of Six Thinking Hats
Book Review: Color Schemed Thinking
Summary: 5 Stars
In The Six Thinking Hats, De Bono is able to create a simple analogy of colors linked to specific thought patterns that everyone is familiar with. Using six of the most common colors including black, red, blue, green, white, and yellow to represent negative criticism, emotion, logic, creativity, objectivity, and exuberant optimism respectively, De Bono creates an easy to remember model that can create great flexibility in thinking patterns. This model is applicable and easy to remember to to its fundamental nature of linking familiar colors with unique traits to their predisposed thinking patterns. All people are biased and have a certain natural behavioral thinking patterns they follow based on nature and nurture characteristics. Tinkering with different hats allows individuals to witness a wider spectrum of viewpoints and thus potential solutions and discourse to their issue at hand.Book Review: Teaches Thinking Skills
Summary: 5 Stars
I seem to find some of the most meaningful work by accident,and this one is a great find. Bono talks about the skills of thinking and how they can be taught an used in all areas of our decision making. He is a dry speaker but the content makes it worth while to concentrate and learn from his amazing insight within the mind. Bono simplifies the thinking exercise by using hats with different colors, making it easy to discipline your thinking in the way of steps. These thinking concepts enable one or teams to thinking together looking at different areas of a situation and brainstrom together to a end result that can be arrived at within harmony. Bono puts thinking into steps: 1. Information 2. Benefits 3.Critical thinking 4. Feelings 5. Creative thinking 6. Thinking about the thinking and creating and action plan for implementation. Very good book.Book Review: Approach a problem from multiple viewpoints
Summary: 5 Stars
This book discusses six thinking hats. They each have a different color and they each stand for a different fundamental perspective or approach to a problem or issue.
The book discusses how this construct can be used in group meetings where each person is assigned a role. For example, the positive viewpoint would be a person just pointing out all the positives. The other viewpoints include emotional viewpoint, the negative viewpoint, a viewpoint concerning rules of the process, etc.
The reason I liked the book is that it goes into detail on why approaching a problem, an issue or an opportunity should be done by utilizing a multitude of viewpoints. This ensures better thinking.
I thought the book was excellent and highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning to be a better overall critical thinker.
Book Review: Great Easy Read
Summary: 5 Stars
I would recommend this book to students of every discipline, as well as non-students. This book has great examples for each lateral thinking concept. It's one of those feel-good books that can be motivating and empowering.
Edward de Bono writes about using different styles of thinking that can be used for any situation. He organizes philosophies about thinking that has been around for ages into visual concepts to be applied in daily scenarios.
Brief spoiler ahead..
White Hat- State the facts
Red Hat- State the emotions
Black Hat- State the negative aspects
Yellow Hat- State the positive aspects
Green Hat- Think creatively (outside the box)
Blue Hat- Think about thinking!
Yes the blue hat is tricky, so you should buy the book and get more details.
Book Review: putting my yellow hat on
Summary: 4 Stars
Six Thinking Hats was written by Edward de Bono. This is a great book to read not only if your a manager of a company and you want to make your meetings more productive but also an average person will be able to use de Bono's methods to make good decisions. This book is a great read for people who typically don't like to read, its easy to understand, it goes straight to the point, and at the end of it you'll be thinking "its that simple?" And yes it is that simple, de Bono doesnt try to confuse you but he just makes you understand that thinking in 6 different ways is better than one.
This has been my first book that I've read from cover to cover since....elementary school and I enjoyed it. I would recommend this book to anyone especially people who are fed up of non productive meetings.