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  • Don’t just take a stand , showcase parallel thinking

    Edward De Bono’s 6 thinking hats is a lesson in itself.The legendary author’s 6 Thinking Hats framework has shown beyond doubt how to get the best out of a brain storming session.

    Just taking a stand and opposing contrary ideas , no longer works in the modern era.Parallel thinking by means of use of the 6 thinking hats framework helps cover all scenarios to come to a fruitful conclusion avoiding conflicts..

    The 6 thinking hats and meaning has been provided as follows to be used on a turn by turn basis..

    Black Hat – Focus on Possible dangers, critical points

    Yellow Hat – Focuses on benefits and values

    Green Hat – For creativity and new ideas

    Red Hat – Permission to our forward emotions , feelings , intuitions

    Blue Hat – For better organising

    White Hat – Focus on information

  • Perception vs Logic – Which dominates?

    In the book “The Free Mind” , Ed De Bono talks about perception as the dominant force behind influencing our thoughts.

    The Harvard stalwart David Perkins goes the distance in saying that 90% of errors made by us in thoughts is due to perceptions and the rest due to logic.

    This goes a long way in proving that school education that teaches us to analyse and use logic falls flat in most practical scenarios wherein a false judgement is made due to perception aka the limbic Brain.

    This makes is necessary to make thinking a central focus of all modern day educational curriculum.

  • “The Free Mind” by De Bono – Funny fact about the Chinese

    This fantastic book by Edward De Bono makes a mention of the fact that the Chinese because of small eyes tend to have near sighted ness and hence a majority of them use spectacles.

    Since the invention of spectacles dates back to only as late as the 14th century hence the author mentions that majority of plain & ordinary looking girls would have got married to such innocent Chinese because of their near sighted ness.

    This explains the high Chinese population 😀😅