HOW TO

THINK ?
And
THINKING ABOUT
THINKING?
 WELCOME
TO
SESSION
---DHEEMANT P. R. AMBEDKAR
Mahanayak Kanshiramji School of Thinking
 The Skill Of Thinking?
The Direct Teaching of Thinking as A Skill?

Thinking About Thinking?

How do we must think?
How to Think?
Mahanayak Kanshiramji
School of Thinking
Director General
Dheemant P R Ambedkar
C-4/207 ., NATASHA ENCLAVE ,
NIBM , KONDHWA, PUNE–411048.
Ph: 020-26835230 M: 9822406581.
 Nemo Nascitur Sapiens Artifex
No One is ever born a Skilled Thinker.
Edward de Bono revised Descartes' famous
philosophical axiom,

‘cogito ergo sum’

(I think therefore I am).
In Edward de Bono's improvement, it becomes

‘ago ergo erigo’

(I act therefore I construct / act.)
Are we really as Innovatie as we think we are?
In 250 BC, Governance of Ashoka The Great,
By Thinking For Welfare and Prosper State.

Can be taught Thinking? Or, Thinking can be taught?

Example: -- Car : Intelligence.
Driving Skill : Thinking Skill.
Thinking can be taught and makes difference.

The Six Hats Thinking benefits:

 It gives Power.
 It saves Time.
 It avoids Ego or goes beyond Ego.
 It improves Exploration.
 It fosters Collaboration Behaviour.
 It gives / improves Values.
 It improves Innovation and Creativity.

 Are you a 3-Minute Thinker?
Answer TRUE or FALSE.
1. We're all born skilled thinkers.
2. Thinking requires a weekend, a hammock
and a pitcher of lemonade.
3. Breakthrough ideas come about mostly by
accident.
4. Feelings usually prevent good thinking.
5. Smart people are the best thinkers.
6. Too much thinking leads to inaction and too
little thinking leads to superficiality.
TRUE…… / FALSE ……
 Multiple Choice
1. Thinking is most like:
a. philosophy
b. psychology
c. karate
2. Solving a problem is a matter of:
a. finding the right answer
b. using one proven technique
c. discovering what works
3. Resolving a conflict is a matter of:
a. getting your way
b. proving your adversary wrong
c. bridging the gap between disagreement and agreement
4. Tough decisions require:
a. lots of information
b. long periods of thinking
c. short, focused bursts of thinking
5. If you want to involve other people in your thinking, it’s best to:
 ask others what they would do
 let someone else decide
 ask others for structured, thinking input

3Minutes’ Answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
 You have two choices:--
1. Thinking is a matter of Intelligence.
Intelligence is determined by the Genes
with whom you were born? You can no
more change your thinking than you can
truly change the colour of your eyes.
2. Thinking is a Skill that can be improved by
training, by practice and through learning
to do it better. Thinking is no different
from any other Skill and we can get getter
at the skill of thinking if we have the will
to do so.
 The Skill Of Thinking?
The Direct Teaching of Thinking as A Skill?

The Creative, Constructive,

Design & Operating Aspects
of Thinking, are just as
important as ‘Knowledge’.
 Traditional Thanking
 Argument- Prove that someone is wrong / right.
 Judgement- Proved/Not proved, Right or Wrong
 Analysis- Obtain better data or information .
 Criticism- Critics or Logical Thinking.
 Journalistic Six: -- 5W & 1H
 “Raise the better question,
You will get better answer.”
--Alex Osborn’s
 Car Analogy
To Understand Thinking
 Intelligence is like the Horsepower of a Car. It is possible that the
‘Intelligence’ Potential of Mind is determined partly by Genes.
Even so, there is evidence that the use of the mind can change the
enzyme characteristics of the Brain just as the use of muscles can
change their characteristics
 Performance of a Car does not depend upon the Horsepower of the
Car but upon the Skill--Driving Skill with which the Driver drives
the Car. So if intelligence is the Horsepower of the Car, then
“Thinking” is the Skill with which the Horsepower is used.
 If you have a Powerful Car then you need to improve your
Driving Skill. If you do not improve your driving skill then you
will not be able to make full use of the available power. You may
also be a danger to others. In a similar way, highly intelligent
people need to improve their Thinking Skills in order to make full
use of that high intelligence. Much of the potential of high
intelligence is otherwise wasted.
Thinking is the Operating Skill through
which Intelligence acts upon experience

Intelligence is a Potential.
Thinking is an Operating Skill.
The biggest enemy of thinking is
the feeling that our thinging is
pretty good anyway and we do
not need to do anything about it.
 “I WILL NEVER
FORGIVE MY
EDUCATION SYSTEM
FOR NOT TEACHING
ME
‘HOW TO THINK’”
--Dheemant P R Ambedkar
 THINKING SKILL:
ENJOY YOUR
BEAUTIFUL MIND
A BEAUTIFUL BODY
AND

A BEAUTIFUL FACE
will age and grow old.
 i f u l Mi n d
A B ea u t
“
NO T A G E
DO ES ,
F a c t
And I n
N
O M E E V E
C A N B E C
U T I F U L .”
R E B E A
MO
-- Dr. EDWARD DE BONO.
 Learn-Teach:
Thinking As An Operating Skill.
Because:
Thinking Skill Is Life Skill.

“GREAT HEIGHTS ATTRACT US

NOT THE STEPS TOWARDS
THEM.”
Be Thinking
 The level of performance
must be confirmed to
the level of thinking.

Our task is uphill

task.
Be Thinking
Attention-Directing Tools
of Thinking Skill: --
 P M I: Plus + Minus + Interesting
 C A F: Consider All Factors
 RULES
 C & S: Consequences & Sequel
 A G O: Aims, Goals, Objectives
 PLANNING
 F I P: First Important Priority
 A P C: Alternatives, Possibility, Choice
 DECISIONS
 O P V: Other People Views
 THINKING SKILL
IS
ULTIMATE HUMAN RESOURCE.

THINKIN is the
G most important and
essential Skill for one’s
better life.
Do you need to learn Thinking Skill?
 HOW TO LEARN
THINKING?
HOW TO THINK?
 Thinking is a skill.
 Thinking is an operating skill.
 Thinking can be learnt,
improved, advanced, and
taught & enjoyed.
 How to Learn thinking ?
Prepare to avoid or remove the obstacles in
the Way of Thinking. This is the
beginning in learning and improving in the
Thinking.
Regard thinking as a SKILL rather as a
gift of God or Birth is the first step towards
doing something to improve in THINKING.
Be Creative Thinkers, we must be Free of
 Education= K + I + Th
Knowledge+Intelligence+Thinking
Obstacles Or Barriers In THINKING= ICE
How to break this ICE?
I2 IMITATIONS I2 INNOVATION & CREATIVITY
INDIFFERNT ATTITUDE POSITIVE & CONSTRUCTIVE

C6 COMPLEXITY C6 SIMPLICITY
CONFUSION CLARITY
COMPLACENCY INADEQUACY
CONTENTMENT UNSATISFACTION
COMPLETENESS MOVEMENT / IMPERMANENCE
COMMITMENT STRONG COMMITMENT
E2 EGO E2 BEYOUND EGO
EMOTIONS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGNECE
 Imitation is easy.
Innovation is difficult.
---Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Every thing has changed,
Except our way of thinking.
--Dr. Albert Einstein

Education is the intelligently directed

development of the possibilities
inherent in ordinary experience.
--Prof. John Dewey (USA)
 Define Thinking
THINKING is an Operating Skill
through which Intelligence acts upon
Experiences.
THINKING is the deliberate exploration
of Experience for a Purpose . That
Purpose may be Understanding,
Decision-Making, Problem-solving,
Planning, Judgement, Action, and so on.
 PARALLEL THINKING
a y i n g
s L
y m e a n
E a c h
s i m pl d e
n k i n g g S i is p u t e ,
l e l T h i A l o n n o d
a r a l a s c l a s h , e i s
“P I de i s no T h e r
D o w n T h e re
g e m e n t.
s u b j e c t
j u d t h e
t h e r. / F a l s e n o f m a y ,
O i t i al T ru e
x p l o r a t i o
e c i s i o n
d n o in i n e E a n d D s . ”
an G e n u i o n P r o c e s
a l u s N ’
instead which Conc h a ‘DESIG
r o m t h r o u g
f e r i v ed
n , b e d
t h e

--Dr. Edward de Bono

 Definlng
the Parallel Thinking
1. Laying down Ideas along side each other,

2. There is no clash, no dispute, and no true

or false Judgement,
3. A Genuine Exploration,

4. Conclusion and Decision,

5. Derive through a “Design Process”.

Everyone is always right.
No one is ever right.
---Dr. Edward de Bono

Those who need

Changes / Transformation
must have also Power to
shape and direct Them.
Separate Ego from Performance
Separate Emotion from Logic
Separate Creativity from Information
Power of Powers
is
Power of
Possibility.
Possibility
is
Driver of Thinking.
 Thinking is ultimate Human Resource
What is? What can be? How can design a way forward?

White Hat
Facts and Figures.
Information - Neutral Information
(Without emotion and reaction)
Think of white paper or computer / data.
White Hat has to do with Data & Information.
When you ask for White hat thinking at
a meeting you are asking those present to
put aside the proposals and arguments, and to
focus directly on the information.
For the moment everyone at the meeting
looks to see what information is available,
what is needed, and how it might be obtained.
 Thinking is ultimate Human Resource
What is? What can be? How can design a way forward?

Red Hat
Emotion, Feelings, Hunches, &Intuitions.
Think of red as fire, warm, and emotion.
Red Hat has to do with
Feelings, Intuition, Hunches, and Emotions.
(Only to express pure emotion honestly)
In a serious meeting, you are not supposed to put
forward your emotions, but people do this by
disguising their emotions as logic.
Red Hat gives permission to put forward their
feelings and intuitions without apology, without
explanation and without any need to justify them.
 Thinking is ultimate Human Resource
What is? What can be? How can design a way forward?
Black Hat
Sombre & Serious, Cautious & Careful.
Logical Negative, judgment, & Truth.
(Beware of overuse of Negative Thinking)
Black Hat is the ‘Caution’ Hat and
for critical Judgement.
Black Hat prevents us from making mistakes,
doing silly things, and doing things which might
be illegal. It points out why something cannot be
done, and why something will not be profitable.
It is the most used & possibly the most useful hat.
The Black Hat is very valuable but overuse of it
can be a problem. Negative Thinking protect us
from mistakes, risk-taking, and dangers.
 Thinking is ultimate Human Resource
What is? What can be? How can design a way forward?
Yellow Hat
Think of Sunshine, Think of Optimism.
Hope & Benefits, Optimistic, Logical Positive,
Values, Constructive, Speculative.
Yellow Hat is for optimism &
Logical Positive View of things.
Y H Looks for feasibility & how something can be done,
and also looks for benefits-- but these must be logically
based. Y H Thinking often requires a deliberate effort.
Every creative idea deserves some Y. H. Attention.
Effectiveness is the aim of Y H Constructive
Thinking. Positive Thinking has to be a mixture of
curiosity, pleasure, greed, and the desire to ‘make
things happen’.
Thinking is ultimate Human Resource.
What is? What can be? How can design a way forward?
Green Hat
Think of Vegetation & rich growth.
Think of Leaves and Branches.
(Vegetation & fertile growth, Creativity, Generative, Energy Hat.
New ideas, Possibilities, Alternatives. and Hypotheses.)
Green Hat is the Creative Hat, for Creative Thinking,
New Ideas, Additional Alternatives,
putting forward Possibilities and Hypotheses.
G.H. covers Provocation, & Movement, and requests
for deliberate Creative Efforts. GH makes Times and Space
available for Creative Thinking. It concerns with new ideas,
new ways of looking at things, a deliberate-focused effort
in this direction.
Creativity involves Provocation, Exploration & risk-
taking. We replace Judgement and Movement. Movement/
Provocation/ Forward are Key-Idioms of Lateral Thinking.
 Thinking is ultimate Human Resource
What is? What can be? How can design a way forward?
Blue Hat
Think of Blue Sky above, Think of ‘Overview’.
Blue Hat is for Thinking about Thinking.
(Observation, Overview, Summary, Conclusion, and
Harvesting. Report, For Process Control.)
B H is the Control Hat. The B H Thinker organizes
the thinking itself, and explores the Subject.
Blue Hat sets Agenda for Thinking, suggests next
steps in Thinking, & asks for summaries, conclusions
and decisions.
The chairperson / organizer usually uses B H, but
other participants can put forward suggestions. B H us for
Organizing and controlling Thinking Process, so that it
becomes more productive.
Thus, Thinking About Thinking.
 Thinking Skill is Life Skill.

1. Let us maintain absolute Integrity to our Job.

2. Let us maintain full devotion to Duty.
3. Let us do nothing, which is unbecoming of a
Government Servant.
4. Open-mindedness.
5. Whole-heartedness.
6. Responsibility to face the consequences.
7. Efficiency and excellence is our Merit.
8. Courtesy with effectiveness is our Leadership
The Six Hats Thinking benefits:
 It gives Power.
 It saves Time.
 It avoids Ego or goes beyond Ego.
 It improves Exploration.
 It fosters Collaboration Behaviour.
 It gives / improves Values.
 It improves Innovation and Creativity.
 We can learn to think Parallel with
others.
how TO THINK?
Explore = Investigate the
unknown “ regions.
I will
never
forgive
my
education
system for
not
Thank you.
Visit
Again.
TEACH INDIA TO THINK
Mahanayak Kanshiramji
School of Thinking
Dheemant P R Ambedkar
Director General
.
C-4/207 , NATASHA ENCLAVE ,
OPP: NIBM , KONDHWA, PUNE–411048.
Ph: 020-26835230 Mobile: 9822406581.