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 Heather Johnstone's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenacheerfulenergetic loving mature patient | Blind Spotableaccepting brave caring complex confident extroverted friendly giving happy helpful idealistic independent intelligent kind knowledgeable modest nervous quiet reflective religious silly spontaneous sympathetic trustworthy warm wise witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadesentimental | Unknownadaptable bold calm clever dependable dignified ingenious introverted logical observant organised powerful proud relaxed responsive searching self-assertive self-conscious sensible shy tense |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (7%) accepting (7%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (7%) calm (0%) caring (30%) cheerful (38%) clever (0%) complex (7%) confident (23%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (46%) extroverted (15%) friendly (46%) giving (7%) happy (23%) helpful (15%) idealistic (7%) independent (7%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (7%) introverted (0%) kind (15%) knowledgeable (15%) logical (0%) loving (38%) mature (7%) modest (7%) nervous (7%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (7%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (7%) reflective (7%) relaxed (0%) religious (38%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (23%) spontaneous (15%) sympathetic (7%) tense (0%) trustworthy (23%) warm (23%) wise (7%) witty (7%)
zazazing thinks: able, cheerful, kind, witty, loving.
Racheal thinks: cheerful, confident, energetic, friendly, happy, loving.
Amy thinks: warm, friendly, loving, caring, silly.
victor thinks: complex, religious, cheerful, reflective, giving.
Christina thinks: knowledgeable, helpful, energetic, warm, idealistic, religious.
Alex thinks: caring, brave, modest, sympathetic, friendly.
sallis thinks: helpful, loving, trustworthy, independent, religious.
Amber S. thinks: cheerful, energetic, intelligent, religious, confident, friendly.
Becky Clarke thinks: caring, mature, knowledgeable, trustworthy, warm, accepting.
Emma Figurski thinks: caring, religious, cheerful, energetic, extroverted, happy.
anonymous thinks: silly, confident, friendly, energetic, extroverted, spontaneous.
The Chad thinks: spontaneous, happy, kind, energetic, friendly, nervous.
anonymous thinks: quiet, silly, wise, patient, loving, trustworthy.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-