De+Bono's+Negative+Thinking+Hat+(Black)

"BLACK HAT IS GLOOMY AND NEGATIVE. THE BLACK HAT COVERS THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS - WHY IT CANNOT BE DONE."

Participants identify barriers, hazards, risks and other negative connotations. This is critical thinking, looking for problems and mismatches, as opposed to the YELLOW HAT where they look for the postives in problems.Black Hat thinkers spot the difficulties and dangers, where things might go wrong. Probably the most powerful and useful oh the Hats but can be a prolem if it is overused. This hat is generally used by natural people.

An example of a problem would be -"We will be facing strong opposition in rugby this weekend." (Black Hat thinker.) "We are plying rugby this weekend, I think we can win. " (Yellow Hat thinker.)