Concept of the method
2. Identifying 6 thinking hats
2.2. Red hat
Red hat - emotions and feelings
Red hat is associated with anger and emotions and it is opposite to white hat.
Red hat thinking is about presenting emotions and it allows to say how one feels without explaining or excusing oneself for it. The purpose of revealing emotions is to name them in order to become aware of them. Hidden emotion may influence thinking process, which is not a desirable state. Under the red hat one can acknowledge emotions.
As per traditional view good thinker is detached from emotion and directed only by good sense and rationality. Nevertheless, once all the facts and thinking has been done to make a map the route is chosen based of the values and emotions. “There are the complex judgements that go into such type of feeling as hunch, intuition, sense, taste, aesthetic feeling and other not visibly justified type of feeling. Where an opinion has a large measure of this type of feeling, it can also fit under the red hat.”[1] One can never undermine their influence and should be aware of their emotions.
