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 shanodindryad's.
Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
Known to Others | Arenacaringintelligent loving self-conscious trustworthy | Blind Spotableaccepting adaptable brave cheerful clever complex dependable friendly giving happy helpful idealistic independent introverted kind knowledgeable logical mature modest patient proud quiet reflective relaxed responsive sensible shy silly sympathetic warm wise witty |
Not Known to Others | Façade | Unknownbold calm confident dignified energetic extroverted ingenious nervous observant organised powerful religious searching self-assertive sentimental spontaneous tense |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) |
able (5%) accepting (23%) adaptable (11%) bold (0%) brave (11%) calm (0%) caring (41%) cheerful (11%) clever (5%) complex (17%) confident (0%) dependable (5%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (47%) giving (5%) happy (5%) helpful (23%) idealistic (5%) independent (5%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (35%) introverted (17%) kind (41%) knowledgeable (11%) logical (11%) loving (11%) mature (11%) modest (5%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (11%) powerful (0%) proud (5%) quiet (23%) reflective (29%) relaxed (5%) religious (0%) responsive (5%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (35%) sensible (5%) sentimental (0%) shy (11%) silly (5%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (5%) tense (0%) trustworthy (23%) warm (23%) wise (5%) witty (5%)
Mew thinks: loving, friendly, dependable, caring, accepting, trustworthy.
archangelonline thinks: self-conscious, caring, friendly, brave, reflective, warm.
Lentil thinks: friendly, relaxed, self-conscious, cheerful, kind, introverted.
anonymous thinks: complex, cheerful, friendly, warm, witty.
Gentlemanbandit thinks: able, intelligent, kind, quiet, adaptable, helpful.
lordabsinthe thinks: shy, self-conscious, helpful, kind, friendly, intelligent.
Samuel thinks: sympathetic, friendly, accepting, warm, mature, kind.
Simon thinks: happy, self-conscious, logical, trustworthy, knowledgeable, reflective.
Simon thinks: trustworthy, quiet, intelligent, complex, kind, accepting.
Miko thinks: shy, friendly, giving, helpful, kind, reflective.
Luvlymish thinks: warm, caring, clever, kind, independent, proud.
3 thinks: caring, intelligent, patient, loving, responsive, self-conscious.
Stu thinks: trustworthy, wise, caring, silly, patient, helpful.
anonymous thinks: adaptable, quiet, logical, complex, reflective.
archmage thinks: caring, reflective, knowledgeable, intelligent, mature, sensible.
Mrs Shandy thinks: brave, introverted, self-conscious, friendly, caring.
chrisyb thinks: intelligent, introverted, accepting, idealistic, modest, quiet.
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