PDC+++ Module 1 Class 7, Thinking Tools

Class 1.7 of the PDC+++What makes some

people very effective at realizing their dreams

whilst other people struggle?

In this class we investigate how to increase personal intelligence,

and how it's interconnected with emotional intelligence,

habits of highly effective people

and some nifty tools for thinking and co-create powerfully with others.

Thinking Tools• The 7 Habits

• The First Habit

• Design a MasterMind Group

• Thinking Tools

• The 6 Hats

• PMI & Others

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Thinking Tools• The 7 Habits• The First Habit


• Thinking Tools

• The 6 Hats

• PMI & Others

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7 Habits for highly effective people

Stephen Covey

Stephen Coveystudied the “literature of success”, since

1776

* First 150 years (1926)- Character Ethics(integrity, humility, courage, justice, patience, dedication, simplicity, etc.).

CONTENT

*next 50 years (1976) - Ethics of Personality(public image, attitudes and behaviors, skills and techniques)

FORM

CONTENT

FORM

One of the "upside-down world" things ...

EthicsPeople CareEarth Care

Limits to Population and Consumption

We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Sow a thought harvest an action sow an action harvest a habit

Sow a habitharvest a

charactersow a

characterharvest a

destiny

PermaCulture is based on

> > > ACTION

Knowledge(what to do

& why)

Skills(how to do it)

Will(want to do it)

HABITS

well internalized

principles and

behavior patterns

”Habits”?

¿”Effective”?

Taking care of the Production /

Production Capacity Law

(RELATION not EXPLOITATION, Everything affects Everything)

Based on Principles> Long-Term Maximum Benefit (content not form + Mini-Max)

&

Maturity

Continuum or

natural succession

1 2 3 4 5 6 7HABITS > 6

increase natural

succession Principle

Maturity

Continuum or

natural succession

Dependence

Independence

Interdependence

Psychological

Development

Child > Adolescent > Adult > Citizen >

SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

CO-OPERATIONPC DIRECTIVES >

DependenceChild >

Dependence isThe YOU paradigm

Dependent peopleneed others to get what they want

YOU take care of me

You make me happy

YOU disappoint me

I blame on you for the results

Independence

Adolescent >

INDEPENDENCE is the I paradigm

Independent Peoplecan get what they want through their own efforts

I can do it

I am responsible

I can decide

InterdependenceAdult >

INTERDEPENDENCE isthe WE paradigm

WE can do it

WE can cooperate

We can combine our talents and skills & create something big together

Inter-Dependent Peoplecombine their own efforts with the efforts of others

to achieve their greatest hits

InterdependenceAdult > Citizen >

NEVER DOUBTthat a committed

groupof citizens

can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing

that ever has.

Margaret Mead

1 2 3 4 5 6 7HABITS >

PersonalSuccess

PublicSuccess

Independence

Interdependence

GlobalSuccess

6

GLOBALSUCCESS


• The First Habit• Design a MasterMind Group

• Thinking tools

• The 6 hats

• PMI & Others

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1. Proactivitythe Habit of responsibility

Outcome: Freedom.Decision to act from our rationality,

Not from our programming.

to Act from our

rationality,

NOT from our

programming.

DECISION

Close your eyes...

Pro

Active

Pro

Active

Awareness of yourself ("Self-consciousness ")

WE CAN THINK ABOUT THE PROCESS THOUGHT ITSELF - typically human, is what makes us so flexible and able to change the world.We can learn quickly from generation to generation. (learning from experiences of others, not just ours)

but ..

You are NOT your feelings

You are NOT your moods

You are not your thoughts

we can separate and "see" ourselves .. and other

The paradigm of ourselves

Until we can consider how we see ourselves (and as we see others) we can not understand how others look and feel ABOUT themselves ...

WITHOUT CONSCIENCE (unaware) we will project our intentions on their behavior, thinking that we are objective.

This severely limits our potential and our ability to

relate well with others.The paradigm of ourselves

"you never arrive on time""Why you can't be tidy?

"You're an artist! ""you eat like a horse!

"I do not believe you won that""This is so simple .. why you don't understand? "

The social mirrorIf the only views we have of ourselves come from the social mirror ...

We are largely determinedby the conditioning and conditions

The current cultural mirror

1) your grandparents did it to you (genetic determinism)2) your parents did it to you (psychological determinism)

3) your boss /partner /son /economic /domestic policy did it to you (environmental determinism)

Pavlov's TheoryStimulus - Response

Pattern recognition

Victor Frankl

Victor Frankl

The last of human freedoms

The Pro-Active model

He could decide within himself how all this would affect him

stimulus response

The last of human freedoms

Be Pro-Active

response

freedom to choosefree will

self-consciousness

imaginationIndependentwill

ethicscommitment

values

stimulus

Be Pro-Active

response

the freedom to choose our answer

RESPONSE ABILITY

Highly proactive people recognize this responsibility X

Choicesbased onVALUES

NOT in conditionsSENSATIONS

stimulus

Being Pro-active

response

Being reactive

response

guided by stimuli, feelings, emotions, the environment (sun-happy, rain-depressed), or social environment (very concerned about how others feel, how they treat them)

stimulus

stimulus

Being Pro-Active

response

Eleanor Roosevelt - "No one can hurt you without your consent"

Gandhi – "no one can not take away your self-respect unless you give it to them"

stimulus

Being pro-active

Taking the initiative

IF YOU ARE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTIONYOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM

Why we don't do it?actor

be acted upon

NOT the same as 'positive thinking!

PROBLEM = SOLUTION

Reactive language a self-fulfilling prophecy

I can't do anything about it let's look at the alternatives

I am how I am I can choose another wayit makes me angry I choose my feelings

they don't allow it I can create an effective presentation

I have to do it I decide an appropriate response

I can't I decideI have to ... I prefer ...

if only ... I will ..

absolve us of responsibility Pro-Active Language


Love

"it's just that I don't love her anymore"

a verb (to Love)a feeling (Love)

a self-fulfilling prophecy

absolve us of responsibility Pro-Active Language


DependenceChild >

Dependence isThe YOU paradigm

Dependent peopleneed others to get what they want

YOU take care of me

You make me happy

YOU disappoint me

I blame on you for the results

Circle of Interest&

Circle of Influence

non-interestcircle ofinterest

circle of influence

to which part to you dedicate more time & energy?

non-interestcircle ofinterest

Pro-Active Focus

people with a pro-active focus work with the things they can affect, note & maximize resources that they DO have

& what works well

circle of influence

reactive people loose a lot of energy in things they cannot change, in what they DON'T have or in what DOESN'T work,

etc.

circle of influence

circle ofinterest

Pro-Active Focus

“confessing” others' sins

“volunteering” others

some “toxic” habits

Pro-Active Focus

circle of influence

circle ofinterest

Appreciating

Thinking in creative ways

some “fertilizing” habits

START VERY SMALL

PROBLEM = SOLUTIONMINI-MAX

NO-LIMITS IMAGINATION

Pro-Active Focus

circle of influence

consequences

we are free to choose our actionsbut we do NOT choose the consequences

ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLESETHICS

EVERYTHING AFFECTS EVERYTHING

“The Other End of the Stick”

errors

horrible consequences of our past actions are in our circle of interest

how we REPAIR & LEARN from them is in our circle of influence

CYBLING ENERGYPEOPLE-CARE

“The Other End of the Stick”

PROBLEM = SOLUTION

other thingsthat are INSIDE

our circle of influence

PromisesCommitments

Objectives

circle of influence

Pro-Active Focus

exercise for 28 days

Pro

Active

* work only in your Circle of Influence* make small commitments & keep them

* be a light, not a judge

* be part of the solution, not part of the problem

* don't justify others' weaknesses, or your own

* when you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, & learn from it -

immediately

* don't enter into accusing or blaming modalities

* look at others' error with compassion, not accusation

*listen to your language: when do you use reactive language (if only, can't, etc.) ?

* Remember that you are Respons-Able

* CHOOSE to be a Pro-Active Person - a PermaCulture Designer!

HÁBITO 1Práctica

circle of influence

Pro-Active Focus


• The First Habit

• Design a MasterMind Group• Thinking Tools

• The 6 Hats

• PMI & Others

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Mini-Design -GroupCírculo

deEstudio

PRACTICE

1 weekPoster

Leaflet

Programme(flexible)

using the Thinking Tools that follow

MasterMind group


• The First Habit


• Thinking Tools• The 6 Hats

• PMI & Others

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response

freedom to choosefree will

self-consciousness

imaginationIndependentwill

ethicscommitment

values

stimulus

Thinking about Thinking = expanding

consciousness

Bloom's Taxonomy

How to Teach your Childhow to Think Edward De Bono

<< www.PermaCultureScience

.org

"We can Analyze the past but we

have to DESIGN the

future"


• The First Habit


• Thinking Tools

• The 6 Hats• PMI & Others

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The 6 Thinking Hats

Edward DeBono 1991

There are 6 Ways of Thinking

Thinking in Parallel=

we think in the same way at the same time

“we on put the same hat at the same time”

AVOID CONFLICT

What are the 6 Ways of Thinking?

The 6 Thinking Hats:

White suggests paper, this hat is about information. When we use the white hat, we ask this type of questions: What information do we have? What information do we need ? What questions should I be making? The white hat is used to bring attention to the information we have or are lacking.

White hat: base of the information

What do we know? “Ingredients”

The 6 Thinking Hats - Edward DeBono 1991

NASA study on errors

90% of mistakes are caused by perception errors

(lack of incoming information or incorrect information, irrelevant, etc.)

Byron Katie (enquiry)

1st step – expose in writing all your perceptions

2nd step – ask honestly for each one: "is it true?"

3rd step - ask: “can I know with any certainty this is

true?”

Red suggests heat & fire. The red hat has to do with feelings, intuitions & emotions. You might not know why you like or dislike something. When we use the red hat you have the chance to express your feelings without giving any explanation. Your feelings exist & the red hat permits you to have them known.

Red hat: feelings, intuition,

presencing & emotion


The black hat is without question the one we tend to use the most. Black reminds us of the judges' robes. The black hat is about precaution, it stops us from doing things that could be harmful. The black hats signals risks & the causes for which something might not work. Without the black hat we'd always be in trouble. However we must not make too much use of this hat because it can be dangerous. Black hat:

difficulties, dangers, precaution


Yellow suggests bright sun & optimism. Using the yellow hat we make an effort to find the valuable & beneficial of a suggestion: What is good about this? Even if we don't like an idea, the yellow hat asks us to find the positive points. Which are the benefits? Who will benefit?, How will the benefits be made effective? What are its different values? Yellow hat

seeks do-ability, benefits & the value in the ideas


The colour green suggests vegetation, which relates to energy & life. The green hat is the hat of new energy. Using the green hat we make proposals & we put out new ideas & alternatives. Using this hat you suggest variations & modifications to the proposed ideas. The green hat permits us to express possibilities. When the green hat is in use, everyone makes an effort to be creative. Green hat

new ideas, alternatives, creative suggestions


The blue hat is for looking at the thought process in itself. What is the next action? What have we achieved till now? We use the blue hat at the beginning of a discussion in order to define what we are thinking & to decide what we need to achieve at the end of the thinking process. The blue hat can be used to organize the sequence of hats that we use, as well as to summarize what we have achieved.

Blue hatrequires summaries,

conclusions & decisions


In which order are they used?

There isn't one correct sequence - depends on circumstances

We can just use some, or all; in the order that you wish ... but: (guides)

1) Each hat can be used several times in the same sequence

2) In general it is better to use the yellow hat before the black one

3) Black (weaknesses) > green (overcome weaknesses) > black (assessment)

4) Black at the end (in order to assess an idea) > Red (how we feel)

5) If there are strong emotions around an idea, start with the red hat

6) If there are no strong feelings, start with the white hat (recollect information)

> green (generate alternatives) > yellow > black (assessment)

> select alternatives > black > red

Looking for an idea

Reacting to an idea

QUICK SEQUENCES

Rapid assessment of an idea

To generate ideas

QUICK SEQUENCES

to improve an idea

QUICK SEQUENCES

to collect ideas & generate alternatives

QUICK SEQUENCES

to see if the thinking brought some benefit

QUICK SEQUENCES

Summary

White: neutral & objective, based in facts & numbers


Red: the emotional vision


Black: care & precaution


YelloW: optimism, positive thinking


Green: fertile growth, creativity & new ideas


Blue: calm, organization


A tool for avoiding unnecessary conflict & think

better

The 6 Thinking Hats


• The First Habit


• Thinking Tools

• The 6 Hats

• PMI & Others

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PMI

• +++ Plus

• - - - Minus

• ** * Interesting

eg. PMI on doing the MiniDesign group

+ design practice+ with

colleagues+ quick+ useful product+ multi-

functional

- timeeee!- doubts how

- don't understand it

very well ..- ...- ...

* how to communicat

e* other people

* ... * ...

Class 1.7 of the PDC+++What makes some

people very effective at realizing their dreams / DESIGNS whilst other

people struggle? In this class we investigate

how to increase personal intelligence, and how it's interconnected with emotional intelligence,

habits of highly effective people

and some nifty tools for thinking and co-create powerfully with others.

Technology

PDC+++ Module 1 Class 7, Thinking Tools