6. Read the text, then match each hat with its main type of reasoning.

The Six Thinking Hats
The Six Thinking Hats is a role-playing model developed by Edward de Bono in 1986. Each hat represents a different lens or perspective on a particular issue that prevents narrow thinking.
The basic premise is that most people think and reason in a specific way based on their personality type. This means that a more emotional person may generate ideas differently than a more analytical person, and viceversa. One of the benefits of running the thinking hats techniques is to encourage different viewpoints to be shared, seen, and discussed as part of the decision-making process.
The six types of “Thinking Hats” are:
• White Hat: it represents calmness and pure emotions and focuses on analytical, objective thinking, with an emphasis on facts and feasibility;
• Red Hat: it represents emotional thinking, subjective feelings, perception, and opinion;
• Black Hat: it represents a type of thinking that is critical, sceptical, focused on risks, and identifying problems;
• Yellow Hat: it is about thinking optimistically, speculatively, and best-case scenarios;
• Blue Hat: it creates a sense of structured thinking, high-level overview of the situation, the big picture;
• Green Hat: it is about creative, associative thinking, out-of-the-box, new ideas, brainstorming.
Adapted from: https://www.groupmap.com/portfolio/six-thinking-hats

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