De+Bono's+Intuitive+thinking+Hat+(Red)

  = "The red hat suggests anger, rage and emotions and provides us with the emotional view"   =



 __**De Bono's Red Thinking Hat**__ Wearing the red hat allows the thinker to say how they feel about specific matters. It recognises emotions and feelings as an important part of thinking.

The red hat makes feelings visible so that they can become part of the thinking map and also part of the system that that chooses the specific route on the map. It provides us with a convenient method for a thinker to switch in and out of the feeling mode in a way that is not possible without such a device.

The red hat allows a thinker to explore the feelings of others by asking for a red hat point of view. When a thinker is using the red hat, there should never be any attempt to justify the feelings or to provide a logical basis for them.

The red hat covers two broad types of feeling. Firstly, there are the ordinary emotions as we know them, ranging from the strong emotions such as fear and dislike to the more subtle ones such as suspicion. Secondly, there are the complex judgements that go into such types of feeling as hunch, intuition, sense, taste, aesthetic feeling and other not visibly justified types of feeling. Where an opinion has a large measure of this type of feeling, it can also fit under the red hat.