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 Forrest's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenadependableloving religious self-conscious | Blind Spotableaccepting adaptable bold calm caring cheerful clever complex confident friendly helpful idealistic intelligent kind knowledgeable mature modest patient proud reflective relaxed searching silly sympathetic trustworthy warm wise |
| Not Known to Others | Façadeintrovertedtense | Unknownbrave dignified energetic extroverted giving happy independent ingenious logical nervous observant organised powerful quiet responsive self-assertive sensible sentimental shy spontaneous witty |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (12%) accepting (12%) adaptable (12%) bold (12%) brave (0%) calm (25%) caring (12%) cheerful (25%) clever (12%) complex (12%) confident (12%) dependable (25%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (25%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (25%) idealistic (12%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (12%) introverted (0%) kind (25%) knowledgeable (12%) logical (0%) loving (50%) mature (25%) modest (12%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (12%) powerful (0%) proud (12%) quiet (0%) reflective (12%) relaxed (12%) religious (25%) responsive (0%) searching (25%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (12%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (25%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (12%) tense (0%) trustworthy (12%) warm (12%) wise (37%) witty (0%)
Holly thinks: relaxed, wise, intelligent, dependable, able, bold.
Rebekah thinks: religious, loving, trustworthy, modest, warm, wise.
AHilary thinks: caring, cheerful, clever, mature, religious, friendly.
Rachel thinks: calm, dependable, kind, loving, patient, sympathetic.
Mommy thinks: friendly, helpful, reflective, searching, silly, cheerful.
Matthew thinks: , mature, idealistic, accepting, calm, confident.
Lynné thinks: wise, silly, adaptable, knowledgeable, loving, helpful.
angela thinks: self-conscious, loving, proud, searching, complex, kind.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-