DIPLOMA IN POLICING

AND INVESTIGATION

DPI 2413
CREATIVE THINKING
AND INNOVATION
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 DPI 2413
Lecture by:
LALITA ANBARASEN

CHAPTER 4:
GENERATING IDEAS
4.1 GENERATING POSSIBILITIES
• Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats
• A technique which allows you to take different perspectives
on an issue or idea and think about alternative ideas to move
forward.
• Six Thinking Hats Based on the idea of a Thinking Cap.
• By taking different approaches and perspectives - come up
with better, more creative solutions, better thought through.
• People tend to have preferred ways of thinking - may not be
comfortable outside their usual style. Wearing each hat helps
us adopt different thinking styles.
4.1 GENERATING POSSIBILITIES
• Information and data
• Indicates a focus on
information
• What do we have?
• What information do we need?
• How are we going to get the
information we need?
• Where do we source it?
4.1 GENERATING POSSIBILITIES

• How do you feel?

• The red hat gives full
permission for the expression
of feeling, emotions and
intuition.
• No need to give the reasons or
justifications behind the
feelings.
4.1 GENERATING POSSIBILITIES

• Why it may work

• Focus on values, benefits and
how something can be done
• What is the good in it?
• Give logical reasons
4.1 GENERATING POSSIBILITIES

• Why it may not work

• Caution
• Dangers
• Problems
• Faults, weaknesses
• What might go wrong and
why something does not fit
• Logical reasons
4.1 GENERATING POSSIBILITIES
• The creative hat!
• Sets aside time, space and
expectation for creative
effort
• Possibilities, alternatives
• New ideas
• Overcome black hat
problems
• Reinforce why it might
work (yellow hat thinking)
4.1 GENERATING POSSIBILITIES

• Managing the thinking

• Setting the focus
• Organization of thinking
• Making summaries
• Overviews
• Conclusions
• Action plans
4.2 Creating Metaphors
• This is the part on how our brain generate ideas
in daily basis.
• One of the way our brain shows its creative part
is by creating metaphor.
• Say, you can grasp a hand. You can also grasp a
concept. One is literal. One is metaphorical. Our
brains know the difference, but would we be
able to understand the latter without the former?
4.2.1 Metaphor 1: “Get It Out of Your Head”
• At any given moment, we have a number of unfinished ideas,
tasks. and commitments that roam our brains wreaking havoc
and occupying our finite "psychic RAM".
• Our mind has a tendency to magnify and distort unresolved
decisions (making them appear more important or difficult than
they might actually be) causing us stress, overwhelm, and an
ability to look at the decision rationally.
• It turns out the simple act of writing the decision down, can help
literally get it out of your head and on to the paper.
• Writing it down gives your mind permission to let go, which
allows you to look at the decision objectively, accurately, and use
your mental resources to focus on solving the problem instead of
simply worrying about it.
4.2.2 Metaphor 2: “Wash Your Hands of It”
• One of the worst parts of making a decision, is the
concern we experience afterwards, uncertain about
whether we made the right choice.
• We all know the metaphor of washing away our sins or
our worries has symbolic power, but it looks like it
might have literal power as well.
• Scientists at the University of Michigan did a study not
too long ago, that found when people washed their
hands with soap and water after a decision, they felt
justified about their choices and felt increasingly better
about their decisions.
4.2.3 Metaphor 3: “Circle of Life”
• This metaphor created by our brain metaphorically
explaining that life has different stages.
• One may be at ease this time, but perhaps not later in
future.
• With this metaphor it allows our brain to understand
that a test or mishap may hinder one from making
good decision now.
• But soon in the future, a good decision shall rise
when situation gets better and our brain may think
better and more creative.
4.3 Creating Analogy
• An analogy is a comparison between two
objects, or systems of objects, that highlights
respects in which they are thought to be similar.
• Analogy helps our brain to compare situations to
help us see clearer and make better decision by
providing strong evidence.
End of Chapter