The hats don't come as hard to understand as abstract directions like "explore all negatives on this subject..." and they also give us a metaphorical, less personal way of stating such directions. He had to pick some color scheme to make the idea easy to understand. The sun we see as yellow, and generally we like it, so positive thinking-yellow hat. Grass comes as a simple example of growth, which looks green, and creative thinking allows for growth, so creative thinking-green hat.
I doubt De Bono denies that creativity, intuition, logic, etc. can coexist. In fact, in this lecture he talks about people disguising their feelings as logic. Some of his frameworks do give us a simpler, more concrete, less antagonistic way to address complex real-world problems. But, De Bono does indeed quote himself quite a bit and rarely refers to others work. There exists little denying that.
The hats don't come as hard to understand as abstract directions like "explore all negatives on this subject..." and they also give us a metaphorical, less personal way of stating such directions. He had to pick some color scheme to make the idea easy to understand. The sun we see as yellow, and generally we like it, so positive thinking-yellow hat. Grass comes as a simple example of growth, which looks green, and creative thinking allows for growth, so creative thinking-green hat.
I doubt De Bono denies that creativity, intuition, logic, etc. can coexist. In fact, in this lecture he talks about people disguising their feelings as logic.
Some of his frameworks do give us a simpler, more concrete, less antagonistic way to address complex real-world problems. But, De Bono does indeed quote himself quite a bit and rarely refers to others work. There exists little denying that.
vintage deBono! awesome.
great presentation
creative concept that explains the subject nicely
how about the blue hat? :x