Thinking Hat: The Application Techniques of Parallel Thinking: The Application Techniques of Parallel Thinking

Author: Tony Buzan
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: The quality of thinking determines the quality of the future. You can analyze the past, but you cannot design the future. What matters is not judging "what is," but thinking "what could be." Ensuring the correctness of every step actually limits creativity. Analyzing information can only help us select an idea from stored standard perspectives, but it cannot help us discover a new idea. The essence of traditional thinking methods lies in eliminating false, chaotic, and erroneous assumptions, rather than proposing better ideas and methods. "Possibility" may be the most important word in the field of thinking. It is the power of "possibility" that has brought Western science and technology such tremendous progress. The entire human race should deepen its understanding of the relationship between certainty and possibility. We conduct our thoughts within the inner world of perception, looking forward to the future or reflecting on the past. Value design determines everything. No matter how good our thinking methods are, there is always room for improvement. Those who are usually satisfied with their thinking skills are the poor thinkers, who believe that the purpose of thinking is simply to prove themselves right—to satisfy themselves. If we have limited knowledge of the functions of thinking, we are easily arrogant in this area. Six Thinking Hats is a simple thinking skill, and when it is applied to decision-making, communication, innovation, design, and evaluation, people can easily see its powerful effectiveness. The main difficulty in thinking is confusion. We want to do too many things at the same time. If emotions, information, logic, values, and creativity all appear simultaneously, it is like trying to control several balls at once. This book introduces a simple and practical concept—making thinkers do one thing at a time. Separating emotions from logic, creativity from information, and so on. This concept comes from the Six Thinking Hats. Wearing one hat represents using one way of thinking. This book describes the nature and value of each way of thinking in detail and provides corresponding exercise guidance to help people preliminarily master a skill through reading. Six Thinking Hats allows us to direct our own thinking, just like an orchestra conductor. We can call upon any way of thinking at will, according to our own preferences.