Tools And Technique
...can be as easy as choosing a TV channel or picking a flavor of ice cream. These decisions have little impact on the way you live your life. Other decisions have a bigger influence on your life and so you may be hesitant to decide, feeling nervous that if you pick incorrectly you will end up feeling unhappy. Examples of these types of decisions include choosing a spouse or determining what you want to do with your life in regards to work.
The Six Thinking Hats' is a technique that helps you see important decisions in different perspectives. This technique forces you to move outside your normal ways of thinking. It also helps you understand the difficulty of the decision, and spot issues and opportunities to which you might otherwise be blind. By using the Six Thinking Hats' technique, your decisions and plans will have a mix of sensitivity, creativity, ambition, and good contingency planning. Each Thinking Hat' is a different style of thinking. These are explained below:
1. White Hat Focusing on the data that is available to you. Look at the information you have on hand and see what you can learn from it. Look for gaps in your knowledge, and try to fill them or take account of them.
2. Red Hat - This is were you look at problems using your intuition, your gut reaction, and emotion. One should try to understand other responses of people who do not know your reasoning. Take into consideration how others will react emotionally.
3. Black Hat Look at all the bad points of the decision. Try to see why it might not work. This will help highlight the weak points in a plan. It also allows you to eliminate them, alter them, or prepare possibility plans to counter them. Black Hat thinking helps to make your plans tougher' and flexible. This will also helps you think positive and allows you to get used to thinking positive of which you cannot see...
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