There is a need to go beyond the known and the obvious and the satisfactory. With the creative pause the green hat thinker pauses at any point to consider whether there might be alternative ideas at that point. There need be no reason for this pause. In green hat thinking the idiom of movement replaces that of judgement. The thinker seeks to move forward from an idea in order to reach a new idea.
Provocation is an important part of green hat thinking and is symbolized by the word po .
A provocation is used to take us out of our usual patterns of thinking. There are many ways of setting up provocations including the random word method. It is used to generate new concepts and perceptions. The blue hat thinker organizes the thinking itself. The blue hat thinker is like the conductor of the orchestra.