The act of speaking in public and the process of improving one’s
speaking skills are wrought with conflicting emotions,
exhilarating highs, and frustrating lows. There are times when
applause makes you think you’re the greatest speaker in the
world, and there are times when the silence of the audience
makes you want to crawl into a hole. In short, the mental game
for speaking in public is a jumble of thoughts, experiences, and
emotions. In this article, we apply the wisdom of the Six
Thinking Hats to provide a framework for sorting out this jumble
and gaining useful perspectives which can help us improve. What
are the Six Thinking Hats? Six Thinking Hats is a thinking
framework for use by groups or by individuals. It was
popularized in the 1985 book Six Thinking Hats by Edward de
Bono. Dr. de Bono is a world-renowned author of dozens of books
on lateral thinking. In the last 25+ years, the Six Thinking
Hats method has been adopted by organizations around the world
as an aid for individual and group decision-m