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 Ashley Oates's.
Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
Known to Others | Arenaconfidenttrustworthy | Blind Spotableadaptable brave calm dependable energetic friendly giving intelligent loving organised searching sensible silly warm |
Not Known to Others | Façadeboldkind proud self-assertive | Unknownaccepting caring cheerful clever complex dignified extroverted happy helpful idealistic independent ingenious introverted knowledgeable logical mature modest nervous observant patient powerful quiet reflective relaxed religious responsive self-conscious sentimental shy spontaneous sympathetic tense wise witty |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) |
able (25%) accepting (0%) adaptable (25%) bold (0%) brave (50%) calm (25%) caring (0%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (50%) dependable (50%) dignified (0%) energetic (25%) extroverted (0%) friendly (25%) giving (25%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (50%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (25%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (50%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (25%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (25%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (25%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (50%) warm (25%) wise (0%) witty (0%)
Emily thinks: friendly, giving, organised, intelligent, dependable, brave.
Chelle thinks: confident, dependable, intelligent, adaptable, trustworthy, energetic.
anon thinks: confident, organised, sensible, calm, trustworthy.
Michael Oates thinks: loving, searching, silly, warm, able, brave.
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