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 JCFong's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaidealisticreflective searching trustworthy | Blind Spotableaccepting brave caring cheerful clever confident dependable energetic friendly happy helpful independent intelligent introverted knowledgeable logical mature observant organised sensible sentimental spontaneous witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadecomplex | Unknownadaptable bold calm dignified extroverted giving ingenious kind loving modest nervous patient powerful proud quiet relaxed religious responsive self-assertive self-conscious shy silly sympathetic tense warm wise |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (12%) accepting (12%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (12%) calm (0%) caring (12%) cheerful (12%) clever (25%) complex (0%) confident (12%) dependable (12%) dignified (0%) energetic (25%) extroverted (0%) friendly (50%) giving (0%) happy (12%) helpful (37%) idealistic (25%) independent (12%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (25%) introverted (12%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (12%) logical (50%) loving (0%) mature (25%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (12%) organised (12%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (37%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (12%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (12%) sentimental (37%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (12%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (12%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (25%)
Siqiang thinks: reflective, friendly, caring, helpful, intelligent, searching.
Yukai thinks: reflective, sentimental, idealistic, energetic, sensible, logical.
wenkeat thinks: happy, friendly, helpful, brave, organised, cheerful.
MJ thinks: witty, trustworthy, dependable, mature, independent, confident.
sher thinks: knowledgeable, friendly, logical, reflective, energetic.
Zhengwei thinks: spontaneous, clever, able, logical, idealistic.
catatafish thinks: logical, intelligent, witty, clever, mature, sentimental.
miss zhou thinks: helpful, friendly, observant, accepting, sentimental, introverted.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-