This document discusses thinking skills and techniques for improving thinking. It introduces Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats technique for structured thinking. The Six Hats include White (facts), Red (emotions), Black (caution), Yellow (benefits), Green (creativity), and Blue (process control). Using different colored hats allows individuals to explore an issue from different perspectives in a structured way. The document argues that thinking is a skill that can be taught and improved through practice and learning new techniques like the Six Hats. It aims to promote thinking as an essential life skill.

1. By ,
Dheemant P.R Ambedkar
Senior Divisional Accounts Officer

2. ---Dheemant P. R. AMBEDKAR
Mahanayak Kanshiramji School of Thinking

3.  The Quality of our thinking will
determine the Quality of our Future.
 You can analyze the Past but you have
to design the Future.
 Thinking is the Skill of Leading
yourself, and Leadership is the Skill of
helping Others to lead themselves.
 Thinking Skill is Life-Skill.

4. Thinking About Thinking?
How do we must think?
How to Think?

5. Director General
Dheemant P R Ambedkar
.
C-4/207 , Natasha Enclave,
NIBM, Kondhwa, Pune–411048.
Ph: 020-26835230 M: 9822406581.
Email : prambedkar@rediffmail.com

6. Edward de Bono revised Descartes' famous
philosophical axiom,
„cogito ergo sum‟
(I think therefore I am).
In Edward de Bono's improvement, it becomes
„ago ergo erigo‟
(I act therefore I construct / act.)
Are we really as Innovatie as we think we are?

7. Can be taught Thinking ? Or Thinking can be taught ?
Example: -- Car : Intelligence.
Driving Skill : Thinking Skill.
Thinking can be taught and makes difference.
The Six Hats Thinking benefits:
1. It gives Power.
2. It saves Time.
3. It avoids Ego or goes beyond Ego.
4. It improves Exploration.
5. It fosters Collaboration Behaviour.
6. It gives / improves Values.
7. It improves Innovation and Creativity.
8. We can learn to think Parallel with others.

8. 1. We're all born skilled thinkers.
2. Thinking requires a weekend, a hammock and
a pitcher of lemonade.
3. Breakthrough ideas come about mostly by
accident.
4. Feelings usually prevent good thinking.
5. Smart people are the best thinkers.
6. Too much thinking leads to inaction and too
little thinking leads to superficiality.
TRUE…… / FALSE ……

9. 1. Thinking is most like:
a. philosophy
b. psychology
c. karate
2. Solving a problem is a matter of:
a. finding the right answer
b. using one proven technique
c. discovering what works
3. Resolving a conflict is a matter of:
a. getting your way
b. proving your adversary wrong
c. bridging the gap between disagreement and agreement
4. Tough decisions require:
a. lots of information
b. long periods of thinking
c. short, focused bursts of thinking
5. If you want to involve other people in your thinking, it‟s best to:
a. ask others what they would do
b. let someone else decide
c. ask others for structured, thinking input
3 Minutes - Answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

10. 1. Thinking is a matter of Intelligence.
Intelligence is determined by the Genes
with whom you were born? You can no
more change your thinking than you can
truly change the colour of your eyes.
2. Thinking is a Skill that can be improved by
training, by practice and through learning to
do it better. Thinking is no different from
any other Skill and we can get getter at the
skill of thinking if we have the will to do so.

11. The
Creative, Constructive, Design
& Operating Aspects of
Thinking, are just as important
as „Knowledge‟.

12. 1. Argument- Prove that someone is wrong / right.
2. Judgement- Proved/Not proved, Right or Wrong
3. Analysis- Obtain better data or information .
4. Criticism- Critics or Logical Thinking.
5. Journalistic Six: -- 5W & 1H
6. “Raise the better question,
You will get better answer.”
--Alex Osborn‟s

13. 1. Intelligence is like the Horsepower of a Car. It is possible that the
„Intelligence‟ Potential of Mind is determined partly by Genes.
Even so, there is evidence that the use of the mind can change
the enzyme characteristics of the Brain just as the use of
muscles can change their characteristics
2. Performance of a Car does not depend upon the Horsepower of
the Car but upon the Skill--Driving Skill with which the Driver
drives the Car. So if intelligence is the Horsepower of the
Car, then “Thinking” is the Skill with which the Horsepower is
used.
3. If you have a Powerful Car then you need to improve your Driving
Skill. If you do not improve your driving skill then you will not be
able to make full use of the available power. You may also be a
danger to others. In a similar way, highly intelligent people need
to improve their Thinking Skills in order to make full use of that
high intelligence. Much of the potential of high intelligence is
otherwise wasted.

14.  Intelligence is a Potential.
 Thinking is an Operating Skill.
 The biggest enemy of thinking is the
feeling that our thinging is pretty good
anyway and we do not need to do
anything about it.

15. --Dheemant P R Ambedkar

16. A BEAUTIFUL BODY
AND
A BEAUTIFUL FACE
will age and grow old.

17. -- Dr. EDWARD DE BONO.

18. “GREAT HEIGHTS ATTRACT US,
NOT THE STEPS TOWARDS THEM.”
Be Thinking People.

19. Our task is uphill task.
Be Thinking People.

20.  P M I: Plus + Minus + Interesting
 C A F: Consider All Factors
RULES
 C & S: Consequences & Sequel
 A G O: Aims, Goals, Objectives
PLANNING
 F I P: First Important Priority
 A P C: Alternatives, Possibility, Choice
DECISIONS
 O P V: Other People Views

21. Six Thinking Hats Technique

22. THINKING
is the most
important and essential Skill
for one‟s better life.
Do you need to learn Thinking Skill?

23. • Thinking is a skill.
• Thinking is an operating skill.
• Thinking can be learnt, improved,
advanced, and taught & enjoyed.

24.  Prepare to avoid or remove the obstacles in the Way of
Thinking. This is the beginning in learning and
improving in the Thinking.
 Regard thinking as a SKILL rather as a gift of God or
Birth is the first step towards doing something to
improve in THINKING.
 Be Creative Thinkers, we must be Free of Constraints
of Traditions and History.

25. Obstacles Or Barriers In THINKING= ICE
How to break this ICE?
I2 INNOVATION & CREATIVITY
I2 IMITATIONS
POSITIVE & CONSTRUCTIVE
INDIFFERNT ATTITUDE
C6 SIMPLICITY
C6 COMPLEXITY CLARITY
CONFUSION INADEQUACY
COMPLACENCY UNSATISFACTION
CONTENTMENT MOVEMENT / IMPERMANENCE
COMPLETENESS STRONG COMMITMENT
COMMITMENT
E2 BEYOUND EGO
E2 EGO EMOTIONAL INTELLIGNECE
EMOTIONS

26. Education is the intelligently directed
development of the possibilities
inherent in ordinary experience.
--Prof. John Dewey (USA)

27.  THINKING is an Operating Skill through which
Intelligence acts upon Experiences.
 THINKING is the deliberate exploration of
Experience for a Purpose . That Purpose may be
Understanding, Decision-Making, Problem-
solving, Planning, Judgment, Action, and so on.

29. 1. Laying down Ideas along side each other,
2. There is no clash, no dispute, and no true
or false Judgement,
3. A Genuine Exploration,
4. Conclusion and Decision,
5. Derive through a “Design Process”.

30. Those who need
Changes / Transformation
must have also Power
to shape and direct Them.

31. SIX THINKING HAT – ADVANCED

32. Power of Powers is Power of Possibility.
Possibility is Driver of Thinking.
Learn-Possibility, Teach-Possibility.

33. White Hat
Facts and Figures.
Information - Neutral Information
(Without emotion and reaction)
Think of white paper or computer / data.
White Hat has to do with Data & Information.
 When you ask for White hat thinking at a meeting you are
asking those present to put aside the proposals and arguments, and
to focus directly on the information.
 For the moment everyone at the meeting looks to see what
information is available , what is needed, and how it might be obtained

34. Red Hat
Emotion, Feelings, Hunches, &Intuitions.
Think of red as fire, warm, and emotion.
Red Hat has to do with
Feelings, Intuition, Hunches, and Emotions.
(Only to express pure emotion honestly)
In a serious meeting, you are not supposed to put forward your
emotions, but people do this by disguising their emotions as
logic.
Red Hat gives permission to put forward their feelings and
intuitions without apology, without explanation and without any
need to justify them.

35. Sombre & Serious, Cautious & Careful.
Logical Negative, judgment, & Truth.
(Beware of overuse of Negative Thinking)
Black Hat is the „Caution‟ Hat and
for critical Judgement.
Black Hat prevents us from making mistakes, doing silly
things, and doing things which might be illegal. It points out
why something cannot be done, and why something will not
be profitable. It is the most used & possibly the most useful
hat.
The Black Hat is very valuable but overuse of it can be a
problem. Negative Thinking protect us from mistakes, risk-
taking, and dangers.

36. Think of Sunshine, Think of Optimism.
Hope & Benefits, Optimistic, Logical Positive,
Values, Constructive, Speculative.
Yellow Hat is for optimism &
Logical Positive View of things.
Y H Looks for feasibility & how something can be done, and
also looks for benefits-- but these must be logically based. Y
H Thinking often requires a deliberate effort.
Every creative idea deserves some Y. H. Attention.
Effectiveness is the aim of Y H Constructive Thinking.
Positive Thinking has to be a mixture of
curiosity, pleasure, greed, and the desire to „make things
happen‟.

37. Think of Vegetation & rich growth.
Think of Leaves and Branches.
(Vegetation & fertile growth, Creativity, Generative, Energy Hat.
New ideas, Possibilities, Alternatives. and Hypotheses.)
Green Hat is the Creative Hat, for Creative Thinking,
New Ideas, Additional Alternatives,
putting forward Possibilities and Hypotheses.
G.H. covers Provocation, & Movement, and requests
for deliberate Creative Efforts. GH makes Times and Space available
for Creative Thinking. It concerns with new ideas, new ways of
looking at things, a deliberate-focused effort in this direction.
Creativity involves Provocation, Exploration & risk-taking. We
replace Judgement and Movement. Movement/ Provocation/ Forward
are Key-Idioms of Lateral Thinking.

38. Blue Hat
Think of Blue Sky above, Think of „Overview‟.
Blue Hat is for Thinking about Thinking.
(Observation, Overview, Summary, Conclusion, and
Harvesting. Report, For Process Control.)
B H is the Control Hat. The B H Thinker organizes
the thinking itself, and explores the Subject.
Blue Hat sets Agenda for Thinking, suggests next steps in
Thinking, & asks for summaries, conclusions and decisions.
The chairperson / organizer usually uses B H, but
other participants can put forward suggestions. B H us for
Organizing and controlling Thinking Process, so that it
becomes more productive.
Thus, Thinking About Thinking.

39. Edward de Bono‟s Lateral Thinking Random Word list
soap coal eagle
Information
mouse camel taxi
cloud diary soup
hair lawyer prison
ice-cream cigarette shark Feelings
rocket toy diamond
tax snow gun
bed parachute train Caution
wheel door picture
frog tap beer
farm hurricane kitchen Edward de Bono‟s Six Thinking Hats
computer watch nose
jazz balloon elephant
hat party wine Benefits
credit card shoe rose
church root saw
shop knife hospital Creativity
hamburger smoke camera
book president banana
scales button snail Managing
the thinking

40. • What information do we have?
• What are the objectives?
Information • What information do we need?
• How do we acquire the needed information?
• I once read an article where...
• That reminds me of an episode where...
Feelings • It is my impression that...
• What if we tried to...?
• That is a bad idea because...
Caution • Drilling in the reservoir is problematic because...
• The risk of going forward on this is too high because...
• The implementation will be difficult because...
• It would be a good idea to...
• The project is running well but it could run even better if...
Benefits
• The idea certainly has qualities in the area of...
• The potentials of this idea are so great that we should attempt to...
• The basics of this venture are similar to...
Creativity
• This is comparable to...
• There is a likeness between this platform and...
• The synergies between what your saying and what he is saying is...
• This has been thoroughly covered. Next item is...
• Will the yellow hat please elaborate on the subject...?
Managing The Thinking
• What is the documentation for the idea that...?
• We need to involve these stakeholders to ensure that...

41. 1. It gives Power.
2. It saves Time.
3. It avoids Ego or goes beyond Ego.
4. It improves Exploration.
5. It fosters Collaboration Behaviour.
6. It gives / improves Values.
7. It improves Innovation and Creativity.
8. We can learn to think Parallel with
others.

42. 1. Let us maintain absolute Integrity to our Job.
2. Let us maintain full devotion to Duty.
3. Let us do nothing, which is unbecoming of a
Government Servant.
4. Open-mindedness.
5. Whole-heartedness.
6. Responsibility to face the consequences.
7. Efficiency and excellence is our Merit.
8. Courtesy with effectiveness is our Leadership

43. How TO THINK?
Explore= Investigate the Unknown Regions.
“ I will never
forgive my
Education System
for
not teaching me
How to Think. ”

45. Mahanayak Kanshiramji
School of Thinking
Dheemant P R Ambedkar
Director General
C-4/207 , NATASHA ENCLAVE ,
OPP: NIBM , KONDHWA, PUNE–411048.
Ph: 020-26835230 Mobile: 9822406581.