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In talking about linking colour to ways of thinking, there's also de Bono's hats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by h0l0cube 6y ago
In talking about linking colour to ways of thinking, there's also de Bono's hats:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats
BLUE "The Big Picture"
WHITE "Facts & Information"
RED "Feelings & Emotions"
BLACK "Critical Judgement"
YELLOW "Positive"
GREEN "New Ideas"
- whatshisface 6y agoThere's also the Whatshisface Schema: BLACK: Big-picture executive thinking. RED: Thinking like a Reddit commenter. (Glib, humorous oneliners) ORANGE: Thinking like a Hackernews commenter. (Glib, contrarian milti-liners.) YELLOW: The color of the sun, sunflowers, lions, and therefore courage and the heart, as in middle ages medicine. GREEN: Thinking about the environment, or money, or both. CYAN: Coming up with business ideas similar to the printer ink pricing model. BLUE: Thinking about celestial objects that are moving towards us, like Andromeda. VIOLET: Being violent.
- bjourne 6y agoWhat about PURPLE?
- usrusr 6y agoFollowing the scheme established by GP's list surely it would be something about purpose? This won't stand well in a translation...
- whatshisface 6y agoA translation would add to the mystique, remember that period when it was in style to use everyday Japanese words as if they were all deep and mysterious?
- TomK32 6y agoCyan, violet, even blue/green aren't the same in every culture/language and sometimes even missing altogether. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_of_blue_and_green_in_various_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_of_blue_and_green_... It's also worth knowing how our sense for colours did evolve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Universality_and_Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Unive... And on top of that the colours can differ in symbolism https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/ https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in...
- h0l0cube 6y ago> RED: Thinking like a Reddit commenter. (Glib, humorous oneliners) You're being way too charitable to Reddit commenters.
- Apocryphon 6y agoWell, yellow is present in Magic: the Gathering after all- it signifies multi-colored.