🧠 THE MODEL (clear view)
You have 3 layers:
- ⚓ Anti-anchoring → removes bias
- 🎩 6 hats → separates how you think
- 🔵 Final blue → turns it into a decision
⚓ 1. ANTI-ANCHORING (before everything)
This is the most underrated part — and the most powerful.
The problem:
You already start thinking like this:
- “I think this is good”
- “I’m afraid of this”
- “I’ve already decided without noticing”
👉 That’s mental anchoring
What you do:
- Reframe the problem
- Question your assumptions
- Consider the opposite
- Imagine failure
👉 Result: you enter the process less biased
🎩 2. THE 6 THINKING HATS
Now the core idea:👉 you think one mode at a time
⚪ White Hat — Facts
Mode: reality
Questions:
- What do we know?
- What don’t we know?
- What is assumption?
👉 No opinions. Only data.
🟡 Yellow Hat — Benefits
Mode: logical optimism
Questions:
- What could go right?
- What are the advantages?
- Why could this work?
👉 Must include reasoning (not just “sounds good”)
⚫ Black Hat — Risks
Mode: protection
Questions:
- What could go wrong?
- Where could this fail?
- What are the real risks?
👉 This prevents bad decisions
🟢 Green Hat — Creativity
Mode: expansion
Questions:
- What other options exist?
- What’s another way?
- What bold idea could work?
👉 No judging — just generating ideas
🔴 Red Hat — Intuition
Mode: emotion
Questions:
- What do I feel?
- Does this feel right or wrong?
👉 No explanation. Just feeling.
🔵 Blue Hat — Control / Decision
Mode: management + conclusion
At the end:
- What’s the best option?
- What’s the plan?
- What do we do now?
👉 This turns thinking into action
🔢 3. THE REAL FLOW (the key)
You don’t use them randomly — you follow order:
- ⚓ Anti-anchoring
- 🔵 Blue (organize)
- ⚪ White (facts)
- 🟡 Yellow (benefits)
- ⚫ Black (risks)
- 🟢 Green (alternatives)
- 🔴 Red (intuition)
- 🔵 Blue (final decision)
💡 MOST IMPORTANT INSIGHT
👉 The power is not the hats👉 It’s not mixing them
Example of wrong thinking:
“This is good… but risky… but I like it…”
❌ You mixed:
- Yellow (good)
- Black (risk)
- Red (feeling)
👉 That creates confusion
🚀 WHAT CHANGES IN PRACTICE
Without the method:
- messy thinking
- emotional decisions
- regret later
With the method:
- clarity
- full perspective
- conscious decisions
🔥 SIMPLE SUMMARY
- ⚓ Anti-anchoring → remove bias
- 🎩 6 hats → structure thinking
- 🔵 Final blue → make the decision
👉 Result:think better → decide better → regret less