This document discusses the Six Thinking Hats exercise which involves thinking about a topic from six different perspectives represented by colored hats. It provides details on each hat: Blue represents process/meta thinking, Red is feelings, Yellow focuses on benefits, Black looks at risks/judgment, White deals with facts/data, and Green encourages creativity/alternatives. It notes that Blue and Yellow tend to be the most comfortable hats while Black and White are least comfortable as they involve more negative or detached thinking styles.

1. Six Thinking Hats Exercise
Venture Labs Course
Stay KLASSy team
Dec 2012

2. Blue Hat
The META hat.
Blue hat looks at the thinking process.
Are we using the hats correctly?
What hat can help us right now?
Did we overuse any hat?
What’s our next step?
Who is contributing more/less?

3. Red Hat
The FEELINGS hat.
Red hat looks for subjective views.
How do we feel about this decision?
Does it smell good? Bad?
What’s our first impression?

4. Yellow Hat
The BENEFITS hat.
Yellow hat looks for positive points.
What are the good points on this
idea?
Who benefits from this?
What are the advantages over other
ideas?

5. Black Hat
The JUDGEMENT hat.
Back hats looks for potential risks.
What can go wrong?
Is there a problem here?
Are we misleading ourselves?

6. White Hat
The INFORMATION hat.
White hat looks for facts.
What is a dry cold fact?
What numbers do we have available?

7. Green Hat
The CREATIVITY hat.
Green hats looks for alternative ideas.
What if…
What else can be done for this?
Is there anything else we can do?
Can we create something that wasn’t
there before? Or renovate something
that was?

8. Most Comfortable
Hats…
The Blue hat is detached The Yellow hat has an
from the problem and optimist view on things, and
because of this it is easy to the upbeat mood is
approach. something that feels good
while working with.

9. Least Comfortable
Hats…
The Black hat is pessimist The White hat is too data-
and thinks of bad news all oriented and cold. It
the time. It leaves a bad requires a very detached
tastes to work with it for personality to give extended
prolonged time. treatment and care for this
mindset.