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 Marworth's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaconfidentidealistic kind searching | Blind Spotableaccepting caring cheerful complex energetic extroverted friendly giving helpful intelligent introverted logical observant patient proud quiet reflective relaxed self-assertive sentimental shy silly spontaneous tense trustworthy warm |
| Not Known to Others | Façadeindependentloving | Unknownadaptable bold brave calm clever dependable dignified happy ingenious knowledgeable mature modest nervous organised powerful religious responsive self-conscious sensible sympathetic wise witty |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (10%) accepting (10%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (30%) cheerful (10%) clever (0%) complex (10%) confident (30%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (10%) extroverted (20%) friendly (40%) giving (20%) happy (0%) helpful (10%) idealistic (20%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (10%) introverted (10%) kind (10%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (30%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (10%) organised (0%) patient (20%) powerful (0%) proud (20%) quiet (20%) reflective (10%) relaxed (20%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (10%) self-assertive (30%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (20%) shy (10%) silly (20%) spontaneous (10%) sympathetic (0%) tense (10%) trustworthy (20%) warm (20%) wise (0%) witty (0%)
x thinks: proud, self-assertive, energetic, confident, sentimental.
voey thinks: helpful, tense, trustworthy, giving, idealistic.
Hey nonny nonny mouse mouse thinks: kind, sentimental, friendly, searching, warm.
far_wanderer thinks: extroverted, confident, intelligent, reflective, self-assertive, caring.
Maggie thinks: friendly, logical, silly, warm, idealistic.
leftofdarkness thinks: cheerful, extroverted, friendly, relaxed, spontaneous.
Anonymous thinks: logical, able, friendly, relaxed, silly.
Hoerter thinks: confident, logical, proud, self-assertive, trustworthy.
Jeffrey thinks: accepting, caring, giving, introverted, patient, quiet.
JCWill thinks: complex, caring, patient, observant, quiet, shy.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-