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 Ric's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaadaptableconfident happy idealistic logical proud | Blind Spotableaccepting caring dependable energetic extroverted giving helpful independent ingenious intelligent self-assertive sensible sentimental spontaneous trustworthy wise witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façade | Unknownbold brave calm cheerful clever complex dignified friendly introverted kind knowledgeable loving mature modest nervous observant organised patient powerful quiet reflective relaxed religious responsive searching self-conscious shy silly sympathetic tense warm |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (9%) accepting (9%) adaptable (45%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (27%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (36%) dependable (18%) dignified (0%) energetic (9%) extroverted (27%) friendly (0%) giving (36%) happy (36%) helpful (18%) idealistic (36%) independent (18%) ingenious (36%) intelligent (36%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (45%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (9%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (18%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (9%) sentimental (9%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (9%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (45%) warm (0%) wise (18%) witty (9%)
simin thinks: confident, independent, helpful, adaptable, spontaneous.
YS thinks: extroverted, proud, self-assertive, happy, energetic.
Char thinks: able, confident, witty, self-assertive, independent, extroverted.
gary thinks: intelligent, sensible, extroverted, confident, adaptable.
yellow thinks: intelligent, caring, trustworthy, sentimental, giving, wise.
blue thinks: caring, dependable, trustworthy, wise, intelligent, giving.
red thinks: ingenious, idealistic, logical, happy, adaptable, accepting.
green thinks: adaptable, logical, ingenious, confident, idealistic, trustworthy.
orange thinks: adaptable, logical, ingenious, happy, dependable, helpful.
serina thinks: intelligent, ingenious, idealistic, trustworthy, logical, giving.
elli thinks: happy, idealistic, logical, trustworthy, caring, giving.
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