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 dowding's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaableidealistic ingenious relaxed | Blind Spotadaptablebold brave calm caring cheerful clever complex confident dependable dignified energetic friendly giving happy helpful independent intelligent kind loving observant patient searching self-assertive sentimental spontaneous witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadelogicaltrustworthy | Unknownaccepting extroverted introverted knowledgeable mature modest nervous organised powerful proud quiet reflective religious responsive self-conscious sensible shy silly sympathetic tense warm wise |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (50%) accepting (0%) adaptable (10%) bold (10%) brave (10%) calm (10%) caring (10%) cheerful (20%) clever (10%) complex (30%) confident (20%) dependable (20%) dignified (10%) energetic (40%) extroverted (0%) friendly (20%) giving (20%) happy (10%) helpful (10%) idealistic (50%) independent (30%) ingenious (30%) intelligent (30%) introverted (0%) kind (10%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (20%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (10%) organised (0%) patient (10%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (10%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (10%) self-assertive (10%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (10%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (30%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (10%)
gillian thinks: able, bold, clever, self-assertive, ingenious, idealistic.
harry thinks: independent, observant, giving, intelligent, energetic, cheerful.
lou thinks: complex, loving, dignified, ingenious, energetic, brave.
Anonymous thinks: adaptable, sentimental, caring, intelligent, helpful, able.
anonymous thinks: calm, friendly, intelligent, idealistic, giving, witty.
Russell Hewett thinks: able, idealistic, spontaneous, energetic, cheerful.
JAmes thinks: confident, independent, spontaneous, happy, idealistic, relaxed.
tom thinks: able, confident, dependable, energetic, independent, friendly.
Caroline Harrison thinks: able, complex, ingenious, kind, spontaneous.
Ali thinks: loving, patient, idealistic, complex, dependable, searching.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-