A Crash Course on Creativity Assignment Fall 2012 from Stanford University. It describes MY feeling about 6 Thinking Hats experiencs.

1. 6 MAD HATTERS
I feel like walking Luke Skywalker’s path here. From my
experience, the older I am, the less I am expected to think in
the light side. I suddenly remember being like a child. It is
amazing to see that almost everything (I said ‘almost’) can
have benefits and advantages, even only slight ones. Thinking
with this hat clearly widens my point of view and opens much
more opportunities.
This is a hat I never thought I would use. In fact, I just
realized that I have been using this all my life more than I
expected. Wearing this hat creates a disturbing views in
my head because I am not sure that feelings should
correlate with the success of a team. My question: how far
should we use this hat? When do we say enough to our
feelings to involve in the project?
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2. 2
My previous learning in critical thinking and economics
help me to think based on data. Applying that knowledge
is a different thing, though. A role as a reader could help
here because I have to gain information based on written
sources.
I am now the real mad hatter. This hat is
stimulating, fun, fascinating in an unimaginable way. It
is because I am allowed to throw strange ideas, plus
there is no right and wrong. One challenge for this hat:
How to apply this hat in other circumstances apart
from brainstorming? It is apparently not an automatic
mode for me in other cases. I clearly need more
habituation.

3. Most-loved Hat 3
Even though this hat is associated with the coolness of
Darth Revan, I don’t choose this hat because of him. It is
partly a curse for an overly anxious, cautious, and
suspicious person. Plus, a must-have skill for a person
with a background in accounting. All of the things
combined, here is my comfort zone. Challenge: I still don’t
know how not to overuse it.
Most Go-to-hell Hat
This hat is the arch-enemy of a procrastinator. I don’t have a problem
with planning ahead and making a decision. The only problem for me is
controlling. Controlling takes significant burden of must-knowing &
must-admitting that the work is not yet finished. It is about acceptance
of fact; and acceptance needs certain mentality. Moreover, to make it
work we need strong ethos. Planning is one thing, but walking the walk
is another thing. It is difficult, it makes me anxious & delusional, like
being haunted by a ghost.
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