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 Joe Wilde's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaacceptingpatient relaxed religious trustworthy | Blind Spotablebold calm caring cheerful complex confident dependable dignified energetic extroverted friendly happy helpful kind knowledgeable loving mature observant proud quiet sensible silly spontaneous sympathetic warm wise witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadeshy | Unknownadaptable brave clever giving idealistic independent ingenious intelligent introverted logical modest nervous organised powerful reflective responsive searching self-assertive self-conscious sentimental tense |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (18%) accepting (9%) adaptable (0%) bold (36%) brave (0%) calm (9%) caring (36%) cheerful (27%) clever (0%) complex (9%) confident (18%) dependable (18%) dignified (9%) energetic (18%) extroverted (9%) friendly (45%) giving (0%) happy (9%) helpful (27%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (9%) knowledgeable (9%) logical (0%) loving (9%) mature (18%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (9%) organised (0%) patient (18%) powerful (0%) proud (9%) quiet (9%) reflective (0%) relaxed (18%) religious (36%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (9%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (18%) spontaneous (27%) sympathetic (9%) tense (0%) trustworthy (18%) warm (18%) wise (9%) witty (9%)
Lavinya thinks: friendly, confident, cheerful, bold, dependable, warm.
Josh thinks: quiet, patient, relaxed, calm, spontaneous.
April Lewis thinks: friendly, energetic, extroverted, silly, spontaneous, witty.
Rene Jemio thinks: caring, religious, friendly, warm, helpful, sympathetic.
KD thinks: spontaneous, complex, bold, silly, helpful.
j dawg thinks: proud, relaxed, confident, bold, happy.
Kyle thinks: able, dignified, dependable, helpful, knowledgeable, wise.
sirakins thinks: sensible, religious, patient, caring, cheerful, trustworthy.
Laraluvitt thinks: caring, energetic, cheerful, religious, mature, friendly.
Amanda thinks: bold, mature, observant, friendly, able.
Wyndy thinks: caring, accepting, religious, kind, loving, trustworthy.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-