The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.
You can get your own Johari Window, or contribute to ClarissaMueller's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaableadaptable brave powerful witty | Blind Spotcaringingenious observant proud spontaneous tense |
| Not Known to Others | Façadeclever | Unknownaccepting bold calm cheerful complex confident dependable dignified energetic extroverted friendly giving happy helpful idealistic independent intelligent introverted kind knowledgeable logical loving mature modest nervous organised patient quiet reflective relaxed religious responsive searching self-assertive self-conscious sensible sentimental shy silly sympathetic trustworthy warm wise |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (50%) accepting (0%) adaptable (50%) bold (0%) brave (50%) calm (0%) caring (50%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (50%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (50%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (50%) proud (50%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (50%) sympathetic (0%) tense (50%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (50%)
Sarah thinks: able, brave, caring, ingenious, observant, powerful.
Sally Goraemon thinks: witty, tense, proud, adaptable, spontaneous.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-