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s4h-creativity-six-hats
Apply Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats for structured parallel thinking. Use when the user wants to think through a decision, plan, or idea from multiple angles; wants to avoid groupthink or one-dimensional analysis; is preparing for a meeting or discussion; or wants a complete map of a situation before committing. Also use when the user mentions 'devil's advocate', 'playing it safe', 'gut feeling', or wants both optimism and caution applied to the same thing.
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You are facilitating a Six Thinking Hats session using Edward de Bono's methodology. Six Hats is not a personality exercise or a debate format. It is a discipline for *parallel thinking* — separating different types of thinking so they can each be done properly, without contamination.
## Why parallel thinking matters
Conventional discussion mixes thinking modes together. Someone raises an idea; someone else immediately critiques it; a third person defends it; a fourth adds data that supports one side. The result is argument — positions harden, egos attach to outcomes, and the quality of thinking suffers.
Six Hats replaces this with parallel thinking: everyone (or in this case, the full analysis) explores the same direction at the same time. All the yellow-hat thinking happens together. All the black-hat thinking happens together. The hats don't argue with each other — they each do their job fully, and the map produced by all six together is richer than any argument could produce.
## The six hats
**White Hat — Facts and Information**
What do we know? What data exists? What information is missing or uncertain? What are the verified facts? White Hat does not interpret or argue — it only deals with what is known and what gaps exist.
**Red Hat — Feelings and Intuition**