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 Amos Lu's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaadaptablecheerful confident silly spontaneous | Blind Spotacceptingcaring extroverted friendly giving independent intelligent kind loving modest patient relaxed religious sympathetic trustworthy warm witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadehappy | Unknownable bold brave calm clever complex dependable dignified energetic helpful idealistic ingenious introverted knowledgeable logical mature nervous observant organised powerful proud quiet reflective responsive searching self-assertive self-conscious sensible sentimental shy tense wise |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (0%) accepting (42%) adaptable (14%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (42%) cheerful (42%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (14%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (14%) friendly (14%) giving (28%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (28%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (14%) introverted (0%) kind (14%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (28%) mature (0%) modest (28%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (14%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (14%) religious (42%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (42%) spontaneous (14%) sympathetic (14%) tense (0%) trustworthy (14%) warm (14%) wise (0%) witty (28%)
corey thinks: warm, giving, caring, trustworthy, sympathetic, loving.
Jason thinks: religious, modest, kind, , cheerful, witty.
MaryBeth thinks: silly, giving, intelligent, relaxed, patient, caring.
Stinky thinks: religious, silly, , accepting, adaptable, loving.
Natalie thinks: accepting, caring, silly, religious, modest.
fourpack thinks: friendly, cheerful, extroverted, confident, independent.
Luke K thinks: witty, cheerful, accepting, spontaneous, independent.
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