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 Bismuth B's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenacomplexintroverted knowledgeable quiet reflective searching | Blind Spotacceptingadaptable calm caring cheerful dignified friendly helpful idealistic intelligent kind loving mature modest nervous observant patient self-conscious sentimental shy silly warm |
| Not Known to Others | Façade | Unknownable bold brave clever confident dependable energetic extroverted giving happy independent ingenious logical organised powerful proud relaxed religious responsive self-assertive sensible spontaneous sympathetic tense trustworthy wise witty |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (0%) accepting (30%) adaptable (20%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (20%) caring (30%) cheerful (10%) clever (0%) complex (30%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (10%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (40%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (10%) idealistic (10%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (30%) introverted (20%) kind (10%) knowledgeable (10%) logical (0%) loving (30%) mature (10%) modest (30%) nervous (10%) observant (20%) organised (0%) patient (30%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (20%) reflective (40%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (40%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (30%) sensible (0%) sentimental (20%) shy (10%) silly (10%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (10%) wise (0%) witty (0%)
Krayfish thinks: friendly, searching, intelligent, complex, modest, reflective.
Talia thinks: cheerful, caring, friendly, warm, accepting.
Your bestie thinks: accepting, adaptable, loving, kind, idealistic, complex.
Yami thinks: introverted, intelligent, patient, self-conscious, searching, observant.
Luminous thinks: knowledgeable, quiet, reflective, searching, self-conscious, sentimental.
MO thinks: reflective, self-conscious, shy, complex, searching, observant.
Jazzy thinks: calm, caring, intelligent, introverted, mature, patient.
J thinks: silly, adaptable, friendly, sentimental, nervous, modest.
Frosty thinks: quiet, reflective, patient, loving, modest, helpful.
Norrsken thinks: calm, friendly, dignified, caring, accepting, loving.
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