THE YELLOW HAT: POSSIBILITIES (FP)

Typical Yellow Hat Questions

"What's the good news?"

"How will this help?"

"What will we get out of this?"

"What's the best potential result?"

Yellow hat thinking considers a thing in terms of its benefits and potential opportunities.

Yellow hat thinking is not blindly optimistic. It doesn't simply assume like Pollyanna that good things will happen automatically. The yellow hat instead is used to critically assess the worth of an idea by logically considering the positive consequences of that idea. It is motivated by an emotional internal impulse toward expansion (thus its identification with the combined Myers-Briggs type preferences of "Feeling" and "Perceiving"), but uses logic to consider a thing's beneficial possibilities.

Putting on the yellow hat allows us to consider the rewards of some plan or action, offering reasons why something should be done. In this sense the yellow hat is typically considered an agent for enthusiastic change.