Sunday, January 14, 2007

hat-it up

This is with reference to an interesting article i read a few days back.
Often we get caught up in situations which call for a fast and effective solution, to exit the problem gracefully without causing any hassles to the near and dear ones. At that particular juncture we often tend to get carried away with thoughts that play on our mind and we often end up taking decisions, which make us regret later.

Edward De Bono offered a simple solution to this crisis. Just like we have wear many faces for diferent situations in life...we need to take a holistic view of every situation in life which we do by wearing different 'HATS' to give a different perspective from all angles...

In theory there are 6 hats namely:

  • WHITE: no conjectures and surmises, just try and look at the situation from the perspective of a 3rd person ie just pure,basic,undiluted facts.
  • YELLOW: Optimism, and all other positives and benefits of going one way or the other.
  • BLACK: talks about the negatives and other problems which might arise.
  • GREEN: to try and give birth to an out of box/creative notion to tackle the situation at hand.
  • RED: this hat deals with all emotional aspects.
  • BLUE: this once is like a manager, which tries to decide the order in which the hats are to be worn and also the weight associated with each hat which varies wid situation.

PS: In what order we wear the hats depends on situation to situation...like in a love-relation we should always try and wear the RED hat before the WHITE one. Also more weight should be attached to the RED hat in this case.

PPS: no song iss baar, so that i dont leave you the song but the HAT theory prefessed by edward de bono to ponder over....so keep hatting-up till i find something else worth posting.

3 comments:

Manish said...

Hi Rohan,
looked at your blog after a long time indeed, well i'll go step by step in my views about it,
first is that the blog has a horrible color combination , one that can scare megadeath! [;)] jokin liven it up might be it makes you feel good when you are writing out on the blog.
Plus read that you joined CL, that's good December is the best time to join it, hope you are reading your ET timely, Plus one piece of advice, (hmm.. getting older and grayer day by day :() don't take it too seriously as well! just enjoy what they teach and not teach as well! baaki all the best!
about the kitchen accident, would say nice description looked i was reading a novel. But would say i don't know why this style is predominant these days even when i try and write it, trying to induce literature through contradictions (hope you getting me!). Looks everyone is inspired by Salman Rishdie...

and whats up on your reading front, have you been reading off recently or not?

chal i guess this has been a long comment, now i am thinking i should have mailed you instead :)

but am too lazy for that :P

tc...
M.B

Rohan Mahajan said...

first of all thanks for the comment. waise mere bechare blog ki le li buri wali...color combination change kar leta hoon. but u know i dont read my blog myself...bas likh diya then i check it once in a while.but for the sole person who checks my blog i'll definitely change it asap.

yo joined CL...theek sa chal raha hai. Actually i m not taking it seriously...toh 'too' ka toh sawaal hi nahi aata:)
ET toh i havent been reading but yea TOI(overview basically biz + front pg) + Hindu ka editorial(2pgs). is it enuf?

n btw i only way i can relate to salman rushdie is wid padma lakshmi:)...i once tried reading a novel by him but ajeeb si lagi had to eschew it mid way...and sadly havent been reading aajakl...strtd 2novels n left them mid-way...pata nahi kyun...strted wid 'life of pie' kal...hope to finish it pakka se...and PLZ keep asking...usse i feel tht sum1s keeping a check...thanks:)

now even i feel tht i shud have replied thru a mail.tc.

Manish said...

k.. cool! try reading george orwelle, have read his two novels recently, Big Brother vali '1984' and "Animal farm", though they have the same topic at heart but you'll like it! agar ebook chahiyey to you knwo you can contact me :P

just try and finish a few classics like "to kill a mocking bird" (really good one), and google story etc...
tc....