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 Carinachia's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenacheerfulfriendly warm | Blind Spotacceptingbold caring confident dependable dignified energetic extroverted giving happy helpful idealistic intelligent kind loving mature searching self-conscious sensible sentimental sympathetic trustworthy wise witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadeindependentreflective | Unknownable adaptable brave calm clever complex ingenious introverted knowledgeable logical modest nervous observant organised patient powerful proud quiet relaxed religious responsive self-assertive shy silly spontaneous tense |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (0%) accepting (30%) adaptable (0%) bold (10%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (40%) cheerful (30%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (30%) dependable (20%) dignified (10%) energetic (10%) extroverted (20%) friendly (30%) giving (10%) happy (20%) helpful (40%) idealistic (20%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (10%) introverted (0%) kind (20%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (20%) mature (10%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (20%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (20%) sensible (10%) sentimental (20%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (10%) tense (0%) trustworthy (20%) warm (40%) wise (10%) witty (30%)
Jac thinks: dignified, intelligent, idealistic, warm, caring, sympathetic.
Nasa thinks: searching, giving, accepting, self-conscious, sentimental.
Ken thinks: friendly, extroverted, bold, confident, witty, cheerful.
gladys--- thinks: warm, dependable, mature, caring, helpful, trustworthy.
Joanne thinks: caring, cheerful, dependable, sentimental, helpful, wise.
pos thinks: confident, accepting, witty, sensible, warm.
Sherry thinks: caring, loving, self-conscious, friendly, kind, warm.
William thinks: helpful, kind, friendly, searching, extroverted, idealistic.
I want you so bad thinks: loving, happy, trustworthy, confident, witty.
k thinks: accepting, cheerful, energetic, helpful, happy.
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