Bit of summer psychobabble fun: Which (thinking) hat do you wear on the forum?

[Beedster]

Not the usual bass players and hats thread

 

I was on Gearspace earlier as I'm aiming to buy a piece of quite expensive audio gear and wanted some pros and cons. I've found about 999 extremely favourable reviews but also one very long and detailed post stating a categorical "If you buy this you are an idiot and you only have yourself to blame" sentiments! Something seemed familiar and I realised that the same guy had written a similar post about an interface that I'd also bought and which everyone else had likewise raved about; full of technical 'facts' and apparently more experience than anyone else, coming across with a strong feel of 'You might think you know a lot but you don't know as much as I do'. Reminded me of when we used to use Edward De Bono's Thinking Hats in a team I used to work in (what had do you try to wear, what hat do others think you wear, what hat might be more helpful etc, all very 1990's). I assumed the posts in question are this guy's (black) hat, but wondered what he was actually like in the flesh, IME a lot of people who wear black hats in the professional space were completely different in the real world).

 

So a little bit of (amateur) psychoanalysis for BC, what hat do you wear on the forum, and what's your authentic hat......?

 

To kick things off, I suspect I'm a bit of a black/white on here, definitely a green/red professionally, and mostly yellow with my friends and my family. 

 

Goes without saying I've a few theories about some of the regular members' hats also 🤣

 

[nige1968]

Last time I worked in an office they kept pushing stuff like this, only the black and white bits were gone and they namechecked Myers-Briggs instead of De Bono. This probably says something about modern workplaces.

 

Personally, I go for whichever seems in shortest supply within the group.

[Happy Jack]

Gryffindor!!! 

 

Oh sorry... you said thinking hat.

[Dan Dare]

1 hour ago, nige1968 said:

Last time I worked in an office they kept pushing stuff like this, only the black and white bits were gone and they namechecked Myers-Briggs instead of De Bono. This probably says something about modern workplaces.

 

Same here. People would be trotting round telling everyone they were an E.N.T.J or whatever. I think I turned out to be a T.W.A.T when I took the test.

Edited 19 hours ago by Dan Dare

[fretmeister]

The brown hat.

 

Because I’m full of…

[Lozz196]

I’m a combination of black/white/blue, with blue probably being more me than the others.

[neepheid]

4 hours ago, Beedster said:

Goes without saying I've a few theories about some of the regular members' hats also 🤣

 

Well, spill the beans then!  You can't leave a comment like that hanging...

[Beedster]

2 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Well, spill the beans then!  You can't leave a comment like that hanging...

Well, there are quite a few White Hats, mostly in OT of course 🤫

[Stub Mandrel]

I'll just observe that if you cross your eyes and overlap two different hats, the results are odd.

[itu]

I'll take the one that's left after others have... 

[tauzero]

10 hours ago, nige1968 said:

Last time I worked in an office they kept pushing stuff like this, only the black and white bits were gone and they namechecked Myers-Briggs instead of De Bono. This probably says something about modern workplaces.

 

You might as well cast a horoscope as use Myers-Briggs.

 

What colour hat is natural contrariness, and what one is a desire to treat cause rather than symptoms?

[neepheid]

32 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

You might as well cast a horoscope as use Myers-Briggs.

 

What colour hat is natural contrariness, and what one is a desire to treat cause rather than symptoms?

 

Where would you put a hat anyway? You're headless!

[Geek99]

9 hours ago, fretmeister said:

The brown hat.

 

Because I’m full of…

Chocolate?

[Geek99]

I’m a green hat at work as I always have the left field “not what we did last time” ideas 

[Mrbigstuff]

Probably slightly leaning towards red hat on here but very much black hat in normal life.

[Downunderwonder]

I own the rainbow and swap them around, sometimes wearing more than two at once.

[miles'tone]

I still wear a bucket hat because I'm also very 90s...

 

I think I'd like to be a green hat but I'm probably yellow?

[Bolo]

Camo and black.

[bnt]

The Myers-Briggs thing is fun but I have a hard time with people who take it too seriously. I did a test via 16Personalities years ago and it told me I was INTJ, though I'm not sure I agree or if it tells me anything useful. On Reddit there is an INTJ forum where some questions can get a bit intense at times. Then there's this guy: