Six Thinking Hats White Hat - neutral data and information Red Hat - feelings, intuition, hunches, emotion Black Hat - Caution, critical judgment Yellow Hat - Optimism, logical positive view (feasibility, how can it be done, benefits!) Green Hat - creative, new ideas, additional alternatives, possibilities, hypotheses Blue Hat - overview, process-control, agenda setting, summaries, conclusions and decisions. Everyone puts on each hat - i.e., we all take part in Yellow Hat thinking about the idea or problem under consideration. Then, later, we all might put on our black hats and look at difficulties.