WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.640 We're so glad that you guys are here and we'd love to hear from you. 2 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:07.720 One thing that has changed in the way that you see 3 00:00:07.720 --> 00:00:12.360 yourself or in how you view your contributions to your organization. 4 00:00:12.360 --> 00:00:15.840 If you guys would just drop that in the chat and let us know, 5 00:00:15.840 --> 00:00:20.600 one thing that's changed for you from our weekly gatherings here. 6 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:25.280 Thank you to all of you who completed the surveys. 7 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.800 I know that those are hugely important to us, 8 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:30.800 so thank you again. 9 00:00:34.440 --> 00:00:40.040 I don't know, do we have folks in the chat popping in? 10 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:48.480 There we go. 11 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:55.680 Nicole, the value of working from a place of rest. 12 00:00:55.680 --> 00:00:58.600 Yes, so that you're fully charged for deep work. 13 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:00.360 That's a huge one, isn't it? 14 00:01:00.360 --> 00:01:02.680 That's a huge one and that will change the way that you 15 00:01:02.680 --> 00:01:06.520 work, working from a place of rest. 16 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:08.040 Does anybody else want to weigh in here? 17 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:09.600 We don't have to be shy. 18 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:11.560 There's no right or wrong answers. 19 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:13.120 We're all here learning together, 20 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:15.720 so feel free to pop that in. 21 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:22.440 You guys, I have a hot tip for the QBook for you. 22 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:28.760 Remember, start a new to-do list every Monday or Sunday. 23 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:31.560 For me, I actually like to do it on Fridays when everything is 24 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:35.520 fresh in my brain and I won't forget the importance 25 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:37.920 of a certain task. 26 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:39.960 Circle the critical items for you. 27 00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:41.240 So what is your priority? 28 00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:43.760 What are you going to focus on first? 29 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:48.000 And then if you find items that are being copied week to week, 30 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:50.480 ask yourself, can I delete this? 31 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:51.960 Can I delay? 32 00:01:51.960 --> 00:01:55.440 Can I delegate or can I automate? 33 00:01:55.440 --> 00:01:59.400 And, you know, one time this was so critical because one time we 34 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:04.120 were in a huge transition within the company and I found myself 35 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:06.920 coming under pressure and Dion just said this comment. 36 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:09.600 He said, when we come under pressure, 37 00:02:09.600 --> 00:02:11.680 we can default to old behaviors. 38 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:15.200 And I found out that I was defaulting to an old behavior. 39 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:20.080 And when I went back to my QBook and I went back to those hot 40 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:24.520 tips of recording every Monday, circling the priority items, 41 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:28.200 and then asking for items that were repetitive week after week, 42 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:32.880 if I could delete, delegate, automate, or delay, 43 00:02:32.880 --> 00:02:36.240 that was hugely helpful and it got me right back on track. 44 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:41.040 So remember, we'll say it time and time again, practice. 45 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:42.440 Practice makes permanent. 46 00:02:42.440 --> 00:02:45.960 So it's a continual practice. 47 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:47.840 All right, so I see that more of you were brave 48 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:52.280 and you answered here that managing time effectively, 49 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:53.960 the things that you're taking away, 50 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:55.880 the value of working from a place of rest, 51 00:02:55.880 --> 00:02:59.200 we said from Nicole Kimberly, making heroes. 52 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:01.000 Yes, wasn't that really good? 53 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:05.160 Nancy, investing in her team by being more specific 54 00:03:05.160 --> 00:03:06.760 and intentional with praise. 55 00:03:06.760 --> 00:03:08.920 That was really good, wasn't it? 56 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:10.320 Yeah. 57 00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:13.320 Whoever thought that if you do it in that specific way, 58 00:03:13.320 --> 00:03:16.840 the impact that it would have, it's really key. 59 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:17.840 Yeah. 60 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:19.320 All right, Addy, did you have something 61 00:03:19.320 --> 00:03:23.200 you wanted to say really quickly before we get started? 62 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:24.240 Oh, you're muted. 63 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:25.600 If you could go ahead and unmute. 64 00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:34.840 OK, my landmine is going down there, 65 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:36.760 but I hope you can hear me. 66 00:03:36.760 --> 00:03:43.160 So I have become more productive and creative. 67 00:03:43.160 --> 00:03:49.040 My cue book didn't look the way I wanted it to look first. 68 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:51.200 It was kind of messy. 69 00:03:51.200 --> 00:03:54.440 But as I go from week to week, I could 70 00:03:54.440 --> 00:03:57.200 see the clarity in my mind. 71 00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:01.240 The cue book looks very precise and cleaner. 72 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:10.080 And definitely, definitely I'm on my way into just quality work. 73 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:12.800 And I have my deep work. 74 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:14.080 I don't know. 75 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.800 I just I couldn't believe what I'm creating here. 76 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.480 So I'm so excited. 77 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:19.640 I'm just so excited. 78 00:04:19.640 --> 00:04:21.720 Thank you. 79 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:23.200 Addy, that's a really good point. 80 00:04:23.200 --> 00:04:24.560 Thank you for sharing that. 81 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.960 Because I like that you pointed out that it started out messy. 82 00:04:27.960 --> 00:04:33.240 But as you stuck with it and you kept practicing it over time, 83 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:35.480 it became clearer and clearer. 84 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:39.520 And it created a space for you when you intentionally 85 00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:41.480 practice that week after week. 86 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:43.720 So thank you for sharing that. 87 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:46.800 Dion, do you want to say anything about that? 88 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.680 No, I love it when we share some of the messy middle. 89 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:53.960 Because sometimes when we do trainings like this, 90 00:04:53.960 --> 00:04:57.080 you're hearing the end product after a year or two years 91 00:04:57.080 --> 00:04:58.280 or three years. 92 00:04:58.280 --> 00:05:02.280 And then we never wanted to feel like we were doing it wrong. 93 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.960 feel unattainable. And I can tell you, I've done this with a 94 00:05:02.280 --> 00:05:04.280 So I think it's a good thing that we 95 00:05:03.960 --> 00:05:07.400 lot of teams, I've done it for churches, nonprofits, I've done 96 00:05:04.280 --> 00:05:07.280 are able to share some of the messy middle. 97 00:05:07.400 --> 00:05:10.880 it in a school for teachers, I've literally done in so many 98 00:05:10.880 --> 00:05:14.720 contexts and a lot of different companies, sizes, different 99 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:19.440 skill levels. And it always is the same process. They're the 100 00:05:19.440 --> 00:05:23.680 early adopters will jump in week one, do exactly what you say and 101 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.640 get the benefit. And then there's those who sit around for 102 00:05:26.640 --> 00:05:31.000 six months to see if this is real. That's and everybody in 103 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.280 between. And that's okay. You know, I mean, some people just 104 00:05:34.280 --> 00:05:37.720 take longer. And that's totally fine. So thanks for sharing, 105 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:42.040 Eddie. I appreciate that. Yeah. Just an interesting little point 106 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:48.680 is somebody has built a notion template for the QBook. And I 107 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.240 can tell you straight away that I won't use it. Because even 108 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:55.200 though I gave feedback to it, I thought, look, I'm sure somebody 109 00:05:55.200 --> 00:05:58.640 wanted, here's what you will lose, you'll lose the mind map, 110 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:04.040 your brain like photographs that page in a wonderful way. And 111 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.640 recently, somebody I was telling Jenny at the beginning of the 112 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:11.160 call, recently, somebody asked me about a very subtle tax 113 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:15.000 thing, which was, you know, five months ago, and I'd worked with 114 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.800 our tax EPA. And on the in the middle of the left side, where 115 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:22.120 the money stuff goes, I'd run out of space. And so I'd kind of 116 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:24.840 written it down the side, and it had a little look in my brain, 117 00:06:24.880 --> 00:06:26.720 and I couldn't remember what it looked like. But I couldn't 118 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:31.080 remember the term for that. So if I was searching on notion, I 119 00:06:31.080 --> 00:06:34.240 wouldn't know the search term. I wouldn't know what I've called 120 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:36.880 it. But I knew what it looked like. I knew it mapped in my 121 00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:41.000 brain. And so I just skimmed back quickly page through. And 122 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:43.800 there it was. And I go, how do you do that? So it's because 123 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:48.360 your brain is great at taking photographs of the pages. So you 124 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.800 know, the minute it goes electronic, and it moves, you 125 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:55.760 have all that mapping power. But if some of you have figured it 126 00:06:55.760 --> 00:06:59.920 out, bless your heart, we've got a, we've got a notion template 127 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:04.120 for you. That we're happy to give you if you want it, but I 128 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:09.240 have not found it to work. So I'm curious to know, how long 129 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.360 was it between when you took the note and when you had to go back 130 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.240 and look, what was that span of time that you had to go back and 131 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.880 look at it? Was it like months, a year, five months? Yeah, it 132 00:07:17.880 --> 00:07:22.640 I've gone back years, sometimes five years, six years, I've gone 133 00:07:22.640 --> 00:07:25.640 back, and my brain still remembered more or less where it 134 00:07:25.640 --> 00:07:28.040 was, because you think you won't remember, but then the topic 135 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.120 comes up, and you go, hang on, I first I know, it's money. So 136 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:35.000 it's left middle. And then you're off to the races, and 137 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.160 then your brain finds it. So, yep. 138 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:38.520 So true. 139 00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:43.120 Yeah. Thanks for those tips, Jenny. That's those. I'm glad 140 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:44.320 you're reminding us of that. 141 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:47.560 Very important to be reminded, right? Because right when we 142 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.640 think that we've got something down, we get to go to another 143 00:07:50.640 --> 00:07:56.280 level and layer of it, of the learning of it. So, all right, 144 00:07:56.280 --> 00:08:00.080 are we ready to dive in for today? Because today, we're 145 00:08:00.080 --> 00:08:03.600 going to be talking about an effective way to brainstorm all 146 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:06.840 six ways of thinking with the six hat exercise. So where am I 147 00:08:06.840 --> 00:08:10.520 brainstorming people at? Those who love it? Because I think 148 00:08:10.520 --> 00:08:13.280 we'll be equally divided, right? Those who love it and those who 149 00:08:13.280 --> 00:08:18.920 maybe don't. So, you'll identify your top two ways of thinking 150 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:23.000 is a fun exercise. And this brainstorming strategy sparks 151 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.680 innovation, and it provides boundaries to creative 152 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:29.720 brainstorming discussions to ensure that they stay positive. 153 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:33.159 So this is really helpful for those who maybe haven't had a 154 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:35.919 great experience with brainstorming, it really does 155 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:39.919 give it a focus and a purpose. And so today's pro tip is to 156 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.400 think about where you started, and where you are now, because 157 00:08:43.400 --> 00:08:47.080 it's been, it's just been 10 weeks. And imagine if you kept 158 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:49.760 intentionally practicing all that you've learned so far, 159 00:08:50.040 --> 00:08:53.960 where will you be six months from now? Because as I said 160 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.080 earlier, this growth builds, there's levels and layers. And 161 00:08:57.080 --> 00:08:59.760 just when you think that you have something mastered, there 162 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:03.120 will be a new thing to learn from it. All right, are you guys 163 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.840 all ready to dive in? It's going to be fun. So go ahead and give 164 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:11.520 Dion a virtual fist bump, and or a thumbs up and say hello. 165 00:09:11.880 --> 00:09:15.520 Thank you, Jenny, I appreciate it. Hey, you know, what's going 166 00:09:15.520 --> 00:09:20.200 to be amazing about this particular discussion is this 167 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.400 might be as critical as the QBook. And the reason for it is 168 00:09:24.400 --> 00:09:28.440 that it creates language in which you can talk to each other 169 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.320 at a higher level of precision. And I will give examples of 170 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.120 that. This really becomes part of your language. But again, to 171 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:37.600 give credit to the original author, Edward de Bono, the 172 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:41.280 father of lateral thinking, a British philosopher. And by the 173 00:09:41.280 --> 00:09:45.080 way, this six hat thinking is very popular in the East, 174 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:49.320 particularly in Japan, in the US not so well known, but I have 175 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:53.040 been using this for over 30 years. And we've literally done 176 00:09:53.040 --> 00:09:56.800 this with school teachers. I see Cindy's on the call here with 177 00:09:56.800 --> 00:09:59.960 us. And you may remember doing six hat brainstorming back when 178 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.080 we were running the school. 179 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:05.920 And so if we look over the period of time, 180 00:10:05.920 --> 00:10:07.400 here's why it helps. 181 00:10:07.400 --> 00:10:12.120 It turns out that there are six ways 182 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:14.240 of thinking about anything. 183 00:10:15.340 --> 00:10:17.280 Now, this is the introductory course. 184 00:10:17.280 --> 00:10:19.080 We'll come back to this in season three 185 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:22.200 and we'll add two more, which are more advanced hats. 186 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.520 But for now, the two are more unique situations 187 00:10:25.520 --> 00:10:26.400 for decision-making, 188 00:10:26.400 --> 00:10:29.080 but the six ways of thinking about anything. 189 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.960 And here's the fun part about this exercise. 190 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:34.680 Two of these ways, one is your primary way of doing it 191 00:10:34.680 --> 00:10:36.280 and the other is your secondary. 192 00:10:36.280 --> 00:10:37.120 And here's the point. 193 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:38.540 We can all do all of them. 194 00:10:38.540 --> 00:10:41.680 It's not like, oh, well, I'm at this or I'm at that. 195 00:10:41.680 --> 00:10:43.060 Don't put yourself in a box. 196 00:10:43.060 --> 00:10:44.520 You can do them all. 197 00:10:44.520 --> 00:10:46.560 So the idea of a six hat session 198 00:10:46.560 --> 00:10:51.360 is can we synchronize all these different thinking modes 199 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:54.040 and all getting to the same mode? 200 00:10:54.040 --> 00:10:57.840 So practically what we'll be doing 201 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:00.520 is it'll be imagine or visualize 202 00:11:00.520 --> 00:11:03.280 that you're all putting on the same colored hat, 203 00:11:03.280 --> 00:11:06.000 so which represents a thinking mode. 204 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:08.320 So I've put a little slide deck together, 205 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:10.080 which I've also provided to your leaders 206 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:12.420 so that you guys can use this 207 00:11:12.420 --> 00:11:15.180 every time you run a six hat session. 208 00:11:15.180 --> 00:11:20.180 So let me jump in and share my screen quickly. 209 00:11:20.300 --> 00:11:24.540 And then everybody see that six hats, is that, 210 00:11:24.540 --> 00:11:25.520 everybody can see that? 211 00:11:25.520 --> 00:11:26.560 Are we good? 212 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:30.680 Okay, so six thinking styles for innovation. 213 00:11:30.680 --> 00:11:32.320 So the very first one, 214 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.400 so you're starting your brainstorming session. 215 00:11:35.400 --> 00:11:38.200 Give me one second, guys, I just need to, 216 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:39.400 okay, I think I got it. 217 00:11:40.400 --> 00:11:45.400 So think of the, go back one, white hat. 218 00:11:45.760 --> 00:11:47.320 This is the information hat. 219 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:49.360 So everybody put on their white hat, 220 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:51.440 pretend we're all thinking in that mode. 221 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:56.320 Think of a scientist's lab coat, factual, logical. 222 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.200 Think about facts, figures, and other objective information. 223 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:03.000 So here's the topic. 224 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:06.000 We're talking about maybe a new product we wanna do. 225 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:08.280 Several of you have mentioned to me 226 00:12:08.280 --> 00:12:10.280 that you have different initiatives 227 00:12:10.280 --> 00:12:11.960 going on in your company. 228 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:15.440 This is a great way to gather a team together, 229 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.400 get the topic on the board or on a, 230 00:12:18.400 --> 00:12:21.360 you can do this virtually on a virtual board. 231 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.280 And then what we're going through is say, 232 00:12:23.280 --> 00:12:24.520 let's think about the facts. 233 00:12:24.520 --> 00:12:25.840 What do we know? 234 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:26.920 What figures do we know? 235 00:12:26.920 --> 00:12:28.880 So here are the three key questions. 236 00:12:28.880 --> 00:12:30.480 What facts do we know? 237 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:32.240 What don't we know? 238 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:34.120 What trends can we observe? 239 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:37.240 Now, this has to be logical, factual information. 240 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:40.040 This can't be hearsay or you feel or you think. 241 00:12:40.040 --> 00:12:44.080 This is actual information, stats, data. 242 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:48.000 Hey, we have 6,000 subscribers. 243 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.760 We're losing them at 300 per month. 244 00:12:50.760 --> 00:12:53.040 Our average income is this. 245 00:12:53.040 --> 00:12:56.360 We need to upgrade our subscriber retention rates. 246 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:59.840 That's why we're having the brainstorming session, et cetera. 247 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:03.080 So here we're just looking for facts. 248 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:06.320 And so by the way, Jenny will show you at the end, 249 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:08.880 we've actually created a Notion template for this. 250 00:13:08.880 --> 00:13:11.440 So if you're brainstorming this virtually, 251 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:13.280 you can actually just follow this 252 00:13:13.280 --> 00:13:15.920 all on the same Notion template. 253 00:13:15.920 --> 00:13:17.840 If you don't know what Notion is, 254 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:19.920 that will be a big fun discovery 255 00:13:19.920 --> 00:13:22.400 when you find out how useful that particular tool is 256 00:13:22.400 --> 00:13:23.800 like Slack and Notion, right? 257 00:13:23.800 --> 00:13:25.560 So next hat. 258 00:13:25.560 --> 00:13:27.520 Everybody's put all the data on the table. 259 00:13:27.520 --> 00:13:28.840 Now, black hat. 260 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:30.520 Think of a judge's robe. 261 00:13:30.520 --> 00:13:32.400 This is the caution hat. 262 00:13:32.400 --> 00:13:34.520 This is the hat of judgment. 263 00:13:34.520 --> 00:13:35.360 It's caution. 264 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:38.680 It's technically called logical negative. 265 00:13:38.680 --> 00:13:39.880 So it's negative. 266 00:13:39.880 --> 00:13:41.320 Everybody has to be negative. 267 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:44.160 Everybody has to put the negative black hat on. 268 00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:46.640 And we have to think of negative reasons 269 00:13:46.640 --> 00:13:48.480 why something may not work, 270 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:52.440 why it might be illegal, immoral, unrealistic. 271 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:53.400 You have the big questions. 272 00:13:53.400 --> 00:13:56.920 What are the downside risks to doing this? 273 00:13:56.920 --> 00:13:59.160 What is the worst case scenario? 274 00:13:59.160 --> 00:14:01.920 Any of you recognizing your primary hat yet? 275 00:14:02.880 --> 00:14:04.640 Maybe your secondary hat. 276 00:14:04.640 --> 00:14:07.800 What are the implications of getting this wrong? 277 00:14:07.800 --> 00:14:09.960 What if we just mess this up 278 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:12.960 and we try to do this new thing with our subscription 279 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:16.080 and we lose half our subscriber base? 280 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.200 That would be awful. 281 00:14:18.880 --> 00:14:21.000 So here's where we just rapid fire 282 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.800 and we go through and we list everybody. 283 00:14:23.800 --> 00:14:25.880 So now we've got two hats up. 284 00:14:25.880 --> 00:14:28.440 If you're physically doing this in a room, 285 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.160 one practical thing you might wanna do 286 00:14:31.160 --> 00:14:34.240 is use those sticky note boards, 287 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:36.120 you know, those little flip chart sticky notes 288 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:38.520 where you can write and then keep them up in the board 289 00:14:38.520 --> 00:14:41.320 where everybody can see each of the hats 290 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:42.440 as they're developing. 291 00:14:43.560 --> 00:14:44.960 The first question that comes up 292 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:46.560 after we get through black and white hat is, 293 00:14:46.640 --> 00:14:51.000 hey, I remembered another item from a previous hat. 294 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:51.840 Can I still add it? 295 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:53.520 Absolutely. 296 00:14:53.520 --> 00:14:56.240 So the idea is that you can see them all 297 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:57.880 as they're developing. 298 00:14:57.880 --> 00:14:59.680 So we've done two of the hats. 299 00:14:59.680 --> 00:15:00.520 So. 300 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.360 Black hat information, I'm sorry, white hat information, 301 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.240 black hat, caution, logical negative, what could go wrong? 302 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:09.340 Okay, now we get to a really fun hat. 303 00:15:09.340 --> 00:15:12.760 This is the red hat, think of a beating heart. 304 00:15:12.760 --> 00:15:17.760 This covers intuition, feelings, emotions, experience. 305 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:22.120 The red hat allows you to like, just put forward 306 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.640 your intuition and there's no logic. 307 00:15:24.640 --> 00:15:27.440 You don't have to justify it, you don't have to explain it, 308 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:29.640 you don't have to say where you got it from. 309 00:15:29.640 --> 00:15:31.520 You can just say, for subscriptions, 310 00:15:31.520 --> 00:15:35.200 nobody's gonna pay $30 a month, it's too expensive, 311 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:36.960 or it's too cheap. 312 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:40.280 There's no data, there's no factual white hat data 313 00:15:40.280 --> 00:15:44.040 to support your idea, it's just your experience, 314 00:15:44.040 --> 00:15:45.080 just what you feel. 315 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:46.440 So the key questions here is, 316 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:49.600 what does experience teach about this? 317 00:15:50.520 --> 00:15:53.000 How do I really feel? 318 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:55.360 And what's our intuition about this? 319 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.700 And if anybody from Brilliant is on the call, 320 00:15:58.700 --> 00:16:01.780 then we all know that at this point, everybody's laughing 321 00:16:01.780 --> 00:16:03.980 because at Brilliant, we've worked out 322 00:16:03.980 --> 00:16:07.660 for our online business and for what we provide 323 00:16:07.660 --> 00:16:12.340 at Brilliant, over 90% of our red hat is wrong. 324 00:16:13.300 --> 00:16:16.060 If one of us say, man, now this campaign, 325 00:16:16.060 --> 00:16:18.020 this thing, this is gonna happen. 326 00:16:18.020 --> 00:16:21.620 This thing is gonna take us to the next level 327 00:16:21.620 --> 00:16:23.340 and it's a big disaster. 328 00:16:23.340 --> 00:16:24.460 Or we throw something out there, 329 00:16:24.460 --> 00:16:26.820 well, I hope that works, you know, whatever. 330 00:16:26.820 --> 00:16:28.820 And then it's a huge hit. 331 00:16:28.820 --> 00:16:32.980 So we just, one of the ways we describe our ideas 332 00:16:32.980 --> 00:16:34.140 when we're talking to each other, 333 00:16:34.140 --> 00:16:38.300 and this is why this goes beyond just brainstorming, 334 00:16:38.300 --> 00:16:41.420 what happens is we have a way of categorizing 335 00:16:41.420 --> 00:16:43.660 our suggestions and our input. 336 00:16:43.660 --> 00:16:47.980 I can say, hey, you know, guys, this is my idea, 337 00:16:47.980 --> 00:16:49.860 but it's just a red hat idea. 338 00:16:49.860 --> 00:16:53.540 So at Brilliant, that means we basically can ignore it 339 00:16:53.540 --> 00:16:56.200 because we all know how wrong we are on red hat stuff, 340 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.280 but you can still say it, right? 341 00:16:58.280 --> 00:16:59.800 Or, hey, I know this is black hat, 342 00:16:59.800 --> 00:17:02.400 but just hear me out, you know, whatever. 343 00:17:02.400 --> 00:17:06.280 So what it does is it allows us to give space 344 00:17:06.280 --> 00:17:09.839 for each type, otherwise all the black hat thinkers 345 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:11.319 are like, stop being so negative. 346 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:13.640 We're trying to do something positive here. 347 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:15.800 But we do need to hear the negative stuff. 348 00:17:15.800 --> 00:17:18.079 We need to hear what might go wrong. 349 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.240 Okay, let's go through another fun hat, the yellow hat. 350 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:24.240 This is that think of sunshine, happiness. 351 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.240 This is the logical positive hat. 352 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:29.840 Why would the new possibility work? 353 00:17:29.840 --> 00:17:31.780 And what benefits would it give us? 354 00:17:31.780 --> 00:17:33.480 Key questions here are things like, 355 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:35.240 this is the possibility hat. 356 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:38.540 What if we actually pull this off? 357 00:17:38.540 --> 00:17:41.400 This new subscription thing we're doing, 358 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:43.520 what if it actually worked? 359 00:17:43.520 --> 00:17:45.600 What would be the advantages? 360 00:17:45.600 --> 00:17:48.640 You know, what would be the best possible outcome, 361 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:50.880 everything going smoothly? 362 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:53.560 So you can see how we've given space. 363 00:17:54.520 --> 00:17:55.960 So anybody wanna tell me, 364 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:59.080 what is the opposite of the yellow hat? 365 00:17:59.080 --> 00:18:00.160 Anybody wanna know? 366 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:01.000 Tell me. 367 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:04.280 I can't see the comments 368 00:18:04.280 --> 00:18:06.200 because I'm in share screen share mode. 369 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:07.160 So you'll just have to, 370 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:08.560 somebody would have to read it to me. 371 00:18:08.560 --> 00:18:09.400 Anybody? 372 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:11.720 Black, most books are black. 373 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:13.440 Exactly, black. 374 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:15.560 Black is the logical negative. 375 00:18:15.560 --> 00:18:17.880 And so black and white are not the opposites. 376 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:20.400 It's yellow and black are the opposites. 377 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:22.520 So just in terms of, you know, 378 00:18:22.520 --> 00:18:24.360 the different types of framing. 379 00:18:24.360 --> 00:18:27.640 Yellow is what if we pulled it off and it all goes well. 380 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:30.360 Black is what if it all crashes, 381 00:18:30.360 --> 00:18:32.440 crumbles and it all goes wrong. 382 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:34.800 And so we get a full spectrum of thought 383 00:18:34.800 --> 00:18:38.120 from both of those hats and both are logical. 384 00:18:38.120 --> 00:18:41.560 All right, here is the most fun hat of them all, 385 00:18:41.560 --> 00:18:42.400 the green hat. 386 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:45.560 Think of green grass that grows sideways, right? 387 00:18:45.560 --> 00:18:47.960 This is lateral thinking hat. 388 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:49.800 It's not a logical hat. 389 00:18:50.080 --> 00:18:53.240 It's purely the most creative hat possible. 390 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:58.160 We're thinking of off the wall, provocative, crazy ideas. 391 00:18:58.160 --> 00:18:59.920 Key questions are, 392 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:02.640 how can we think out of the box about this? 393 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:05.800 You know, what's completely new, fresh and innovative? 394 00:19:05.800 --> 00:19:09.400 What crazy idea have we not yet tried? 395 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:13.800 Now, the important thing about this box, 396 00:19:13.800 --> 00:19:16.680 notice that this is combined with red. 397 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:19.160 They're both not necessarily logical. 398 00:19:19.560 --> 00:19:22.320 Red tells you about what you know emotionally 399 00:19:22.320 --> 00:19:23.880 about the past. 400 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:26.280 Green thinks about what could be emotionally 401 00:19:26.280 --> 00:19:27.160 about the future. 402 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:28.840 It's the creative, 403 00:19:28.840 --> 00:19:32.040 what completely creative idea have we not done? 404 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:36.640 You know, as a simple example, for instance, 405 00:19:37.760 --> 00:19:41.800 the reason we use green grass as the metaphor 406 00:19:41.800 --> 00:19:44.200 is because it goes sideways. 407 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:45.960 It's just like a sideways, 408 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:48.040 loosely connected thought structure. 409 00:19:48.040 --> 00:19:50.240 So maybe all these things are up on the wall 410 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:52.320 and you're looking at them, you know, 411 00:19:52.320 --> 00:19:54.000 and you get a bit bored. 412 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.000 And so you look at your watch and you see, 413 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.960 you know, it's 10 o'clock and you're thinking 10 o'clock 414 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:00.560 and you're thinking of 10 down. 415 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.120 on Ink Street, hey, that's where the British Prime Minister, I 416 00:20:02.120 --> 00:20:03.880 wonder if we should get the British Prime Minister to speak 417 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:06.000 at our event. Well, that's not going to happen. But what about 418 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:10.160 the mayor? Hey, what about the mayor of our town? What do we 419 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:13.720 invite the mayor? So how do we go from 10? It's 10 o'clock to 420 00:20:14.040 --> 00:20:18.600 let's invite the mayor. That's green ad thinking very loosely 421 00:20:18.600 --> 00:20:21.680 because somebody says something and triggers another idea and 422 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:26.080 another idea. And that's why we have two hats that have no 423 00:20:26.080 --> 00:20:30.080 direct logical connection. Because what we're trying to do 424 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:34.880 is we're trying to create space for one thought to trigger 425 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:40.600 another. And it's interesting, for those of you that lead the 426 00:20:40.600 --> 00:20:45.320 sessions, the big mistake I've always see leaders make when 427 00:20:45.320 --> 00:20:50.760 they run these sessions is they, they spend way too much time on 428 00:20:50.760 --> 00:20:53.120 the white hat, and then they kind of run through these other 429 00:20:53.120 --> 00:20:57.880 hats. Second big mistake I see, is to realize on these more 430 00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:02.680 creative hats, especially this one, and the yellow hat, these 431 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:09.320 creative hats need at least two waves of ideas, right? The first 432 00:21:09.320 --> 00:21:13.640 wave is pretty much the obvious the extension of the creative 433 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:18.320 stuff. But to really get the deep creativity, sometimes 434 00:21:18.320 --> 00:21:22.240 there's this sort of long silence, and inexperienced 435 00:21:22.280 --> 00:21:26.760 leader will try and fill the silence with with words. But 436 00:21:26.760 --> 00:21:30.160 just letting letting that silence hang for a bit, and not 437 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:32.720 letting it feel awkward, just leave it there and tell the team 438 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:35.520 that we may have moments of silence. That's okay, because 439 00:21:35.520 --> 00:21:39.840 we're all thinking and leaving those moments. And then that 440 00:21:39.840 --> 00:21:43.920 second wave is usually where we get the really great ideas 441 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:47.280 because we go past just the obvious creativity. I hope that 442 00:21:47.280 --> 00:21:51.680 makes sense, right? Blue hat. So blue hat, think of a blue sky. 443 00:21:51.800 --> 00:21:55.960 This is the management hat. This is the leadership hat. This is 444 00:21:56.120 --> 00:22:00.000 what we call metacognition, thinking about our thinking. So 445 00:22:00.040 --> 00:22:03.000 how can we prioritize all these ideas, right? We've all been to 446 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.120 brainstorming sessions, tons of ideas. Somebody sends out an 447 00:22:07.120 --> 00:22:10.280 email with all the notes six months later, absolutely nothing 448 00:22:10.280 --> 00:22:13.440 happens. This hat stops that from happening. This hat says, 449 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:16.880 how do we prioritize it? How can we summarize the plans we want 450 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:20.960 to make next steps, milestones, etc. The way we do it, and the 451 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:25.200 way I found is very just a simple practical thing is I ask 452 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:29.240 everybody look through all the ideas of the other hats, and 453 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:33.320 then you get two votes. And then so what we all do, especially on 454 00:22:33.320 --> 00:22:36.760 notion, we've we've numbered them. So, you know, we've got 455 00:22:36.760 --> 00:22:41.880 white 12345, black 12345, and so on, then people say I'm voting 456 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:47.000 for green seven, and I'm voting for, you know, white nine, or 457 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:50.080 whatever it is. And then we just add them up and we see where the 458 00:22:50.080 --> 00:22:54.560 weight of the emphasis is. And then we all agree, we usually 459 00:22:54.560 --> 00:22:58.800 pick one, sometimes we'll allow ourselves to pick two. And it's 460 00:22:58.800 --> 00:23:01.520 not that the other ideas are being discarded, we're 461 00:23:01.520 --> 00:23:07.440 prioritizing and sacrificing the good for the very best, right? 462 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:09.640 Because we all know that the good is the enemy of the best. 463 00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:13.000 So with that, with that, then we'll put our pants together. 464 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:16.200 And then we take a minute in this hat to talk about what are 465 00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:18.520 the next steps, what are the plans, what the milestones, 466 00:23:18.520 --> 00:23:21.920 who's doing what, when, and we start sort of a very high level 467 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:25.520 project management piece. So we've gone from complete 468 00:23:25.520 --> 00:23:30.000 brainstorming to an actual actionable item at the end. And 469 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:32.640 if you run this carefully, you can do this in 40 minutes to an 470 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:35.800 hour, which is amazing, because this would normally be a three 471 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:39.680 hour process. Alright, so there's a summary for those of 472 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:43.800 you that like to have all the analytic data. There's three 473 00:23:43.800 --> 00:23:46.520 types of thinking, critical thinking, creative thinking, 474 00:23:46.520 --> 00:23:49.320 metacognition, which just means thinking about your thinking. 475 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:53.200 Right. And so you can see the critical hats, the creative 476 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:58.160 hats, the metacognition hats. And the column on the right just 477 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:04.800 says whether they're logical or not. So here's how to lead a 478 00:24:04.800 --> 00:24:09.040 session. If you're leading a six hat session, here are some 479 00:24:09.040 --> 00:24:12.280 basic tips that we've just learned. It's great if a blue 480 00:24:12.280 --> 00:24:16.120 hat thinker leads it. And I say that as somebody who can see the 481 00:24:16.120 --> 00:24:19.440 big picture and get it to nail down and take action. It doesn't 482 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:22.440 have to be, but just be aware if you're not, that's not your 483 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:26.720 primary hat as a leader, then you know, just be aware that you 484 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:31.080 have to have that hat on as you lead the session. Two, frame the 485 00:24:31.120 --> 00:24:34.920 session well. Don't make it too broad and don't make it too 486 00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:37.720 narrow. If it's too broad, like, okay, everybody, we're going to 487 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:42.480 define the universe. Nobody knows how to participate if the 488 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:45.960 category is too big. If the category is too tiny and too 489 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:48.360 small, again, we don't know how to participate. So you want to 490 00:24:48.360 --> 00:24:52.520 figure out a nice space. And the way I do that is I imagine that 491 00:24:52.520 --> 00:24:55.480 the minute I put it up there, will the information immediately 492 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:58.160 start flowing? Or will I get a bunch of questions asking what 493 00:24:58.160 --> 00:24:58.760 do I mean? 494 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.240 So that to me is an easy way. 495 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:04.880 And then we capture each of these hats on a separate page 496 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:06.360 or in a notion document, 497 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:09.920 get participation from everybody. 498 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:12.800 I like to see participation from everyone for every hat, 499 00:25:12.800 --> 00:25:14.320 that's not always possible, 500 00:25:14.320 --> 00:25:16.480 but it's really good for your team 501 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:18.140 to practice these different hats, 502 00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:23.140 even if it isn't their primary or secondary hat. 503 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:25.920 I talked already about the second wave of ideas 504 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:27.760 and allow for free thinking, 505 00:25:27.800 --> 00:25:31.520 but do not allow for criticism of ideas 506 00:25:31.520 --> 00:25:34.240 or for people to start to respond to other people's idea. 507 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:35.840 Well, I don't know if that's gonna work. 508 00:25:35.840 --> 00:25:38.000 We don't want that type of analysis 509 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:41.880 and people already evaluating ideas yet. 510 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:43.000 We're not in valuation. 511 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:44.520 Valuation is blue hat. 512 00:25:44.520 --> 00:25:45.440 We'll get to blue hat. 513 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:46.840 Thanks for giving that thought 514 00:25:46.840 --> 00:25:50.680 and just stop people evaluating other people's ideas 515 00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:51.520 until we hit blue. 516 00:25:51.520 --> 00:25:52.880 Just let them pour it all out. 517 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:54.600 Doesn't matter if they're realistic, unrealistic, 518 00:25:54.600 --> 00:25:55.440 doesn't matter. 519 00:25:55.840 --> 00:25:58.240 One crazy unrealistic idea 520 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:00.600 can trigger one of the most creative things. 521 00:26:00.600 --> 00:26:01.600 And let me tell you this, 522 00:26:01.600 --> 00:26:04.720 I've been doing this a long time in a lot of contexts 523 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.640 and it's often the person you least expect 524 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:11.880 to come out with the idea that is absolutely breakthrough. 525 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:14.440 I've seen that more times than I can count. 526 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:15.600 So it's not like, 527 00:26:15.600 --> 00:26:17.840 oh, by the way, one key idea I wanna say, 528 00:26:17.840 --> 00:26:20.160 we have a rule and the rule is, 529 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:22.120 and it'd be great rule for everybody, 530 00:26:22.120 --> 00:26:25.920 ideas have no rank. 531 00:26:25.920 --> 00:26:27.160 Ideas have no rank. 532 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:30.120 The CEO's ideas are not more valuable 533 00:26:30.120 --> 00:26:32.960 than the person at the bottom of the org chart. 534 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:34.800 Great ideas are great ideas. 535 00:26:34.800 --> 00:26:36.920 Ideas stand on their own. 536 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:39.040 There is no org chart 537 00:26:39.040 --> 00:26:41.160 while we're going through this process. 538 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.360 My idea is no better than anyone else's. 539 00:26:44.360 --> 00:26:46.040 Okay, here's some fun feedback. 540 00:26:46.040 --> 00:26:47.960 We're gonna break out here in a second. 541 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:49.080 Here'll be a fun thing. 542 00:26:49.080 --> 00:26:50.720 As I was going through those hats, 543 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:52.600 I'm sure several of you thought, 544 00:26:52.600 --> 00:26:55.840 yeah, that's me, you pegged me there, 545 00:26:55.840 --> 00:26:59.760 that I immediately resonated with whichever hat. 546 00:26:59.760 --> 00:27:03.000 Be fun for you to go through and just value yourself 547 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:08.000 and say, hey, I think that I'm a primary yellow, 548 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:11.480 secondary blue or whatever it is, right? 549 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:14.160 And it's just a fun way to look at yourself. 550 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:15.800 This is not a psychometric test. 551 00:27:15.800 --> 00:27:17.840 I have studied psychometric theory. 552 00:27:17.840 --> 00:27:19.920 I'm very well aware of what it takes to make one. 553 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.440 This is just a fun, that's why we had the word fun. 554 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:24.600 It's a fun way, quick way to look. 555 00:27:24.600 --> 00:27:27.360 Now, if you have time as a team, 556 00:27:27.360 --> 00:27:28.760 what you can do is you can, 557 00:27:28.760 --> 00:27:31.000 we've provided this little worksheet 558 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:32.760 and it's just a repetition of columns. 559 00:27:32.760 --> 00:27:35.840 The first one is you marking yourself 560 00:27:35.840 --> 00:27:39.040 and then the others are you, 561 00:27:39.040 --> 00:27:42.400 just how you perceive your teammates. 562 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:44.280 So I would go through and say, 563 00:27:44.280 --> 00:27:46.040 yeah, I'm working with Jenny 564 00:27:46.040 --> 00:27:48.640 and I think she's primary this, secondary that, 565 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:50.280 and it's just checkbox. 566 00:27:50.280 --> 00:27:51.760 And then what we do is we all share, 567 00:27:51.760 --> 00:27:53.800 what do we all get for Jenny? 568 00:27:53.800 --> 00:27:56.760 And what's fun about that is we can listen to everything 569 00:27:56.760 --> 00:27:58.640 the team thought about Jenny, 570 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:00.320 summarize it and say, hey, Jenny, 571 00:28:00.320 --> 00:28:02.320 you got more votes for this color than that color. 572 00:28:02.320 --> 00:28:04.120 Everybody thinks, you know, your primary is this, 573 00:28:04.120 --> 00:28:05.560 your secondary is that. 574 00:28:05.560 --> 00:28:07.320 And then Jenny shares hers. 575 00:28:07.320 --> 00:28:10.240 And it's often the way we see ourselves 576 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:12.800 is different from the way the team sees us 577 00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:15.160 because we know ourselves more fully. 578 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:17.440 The team just knows us at work. 579 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:19.160 They know us in work mode. 580 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:22.120 So don't be, you know, nothing wrong with you. 581 00:28:22.120 --> 00:28:26.960 There's just a fun way to explore different types of hats 582 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.080 and open yourself to developing some of these hats. 583 00:28:30.080 --> 00:28:33.640 Maybe if you're a primary black hat thinker, 584 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:35.480 maybe you just need a little more red or yellow 585 00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:36.680 in your life. 586 00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:39.520 So, you know, those type of ideas. 587 00:28:39.520 --> 00:28:43.280 Okay, so those were the six thinking hats 588 00:28:43.280 --> 00:28:45.520 and I'm gonna hand it back to you, Jenny. 589 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:47.880 Wow, thank you. 590 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:50.640 How many of you guys found that helpful? 591 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:54.800 That was helpful to you and you've pinned your hat already 592 00:28:54.800 --> 00:28:56.360 or maybe a teammates. 593 00:28:57.600 --> 00:28:58.480 It's really fun. 594 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:00.840 And we at Brilliant, we've done two six hats 595 00:29:00.840 --> 00:29:03.320 within the last week, two six hat session. 596 00:29:03.320 --> 00:29:05.400 And Dion, just to reiterate for Shandi 597 00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:07.760 who was asking about a timeframe here, 598 00:29:07.760 --> 00:29:10.560 we spent one hour on that. 599 00:29:10.560 --> 00:29:11.640 Sometimes it will go, 600 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:14.280 if we're really getting the conversation flowing, 601 00:29:14.280 --> 00:29:16.360 it'll go to an hour and 15, 602 00:29:16.360 --> 00:29:19.160 but we always have that timeframe around it. 603 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:21.040 So it doesn't go on forever. 604 00:29:21.040 --> 00:29:24.800 And we walk away with an actionable item 605 00:29:24.800 --> 00:29:27.200 that we're gonna follow up with. 606 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:32.200 So as we break out into our breakout rooms, 607 00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:34.800 remember there's three things to focus on. 608 00:29:34.800 --> 00:29:39.400 The first one is you're gonna set up one hour of time 609 00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:41.200 and you're gonna decide on one topic 610 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:43.040 to discuss during that time. 611 00:29:43.040 --> 00:29:46.520 Two, pick out your primary and secondary hat. 612 00:29:46.520 --> 00:29:47.360 And if there's time, 613 00:29:47.360 --> 00:29:49.920 then you can pick out your leader's hat. 614 00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:53.040 For exercise three, set aside some time, 615 00:29:53.040 --> 00:29:57.200 maybe about an hour to do this fun exercise as a team. 616 00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.120 It's gonna be fun self evaluation. 617 00:29:59.120 --> 00:29:59.960 And as Dion said, 618 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:01.600 It is not a scientific test. 619 00:30:01.600 --> 00:30:03.800 If you guys are not laughing and saying, 620 00:30:03.800 --> 00:30:05.800 uh-huh, I see that, I see that, 621 00:30:05.800 --> 00:30:07.380 then you need to reevaluate 622 00:30:07.380 --> 00:30:09.080 how you're doing that six hat session 623 00:30:09.080 --> 00:30:11.880 because it is absolutely a fun time for all.