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 The Odd Wife's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenacomplexreflective searching self-conscious tense | Blind Spotadaptablebold brave caring cheerful confident energetic friendly giving helpful idealistic intelligent loving self-assertive sentimental spontaneous trustworthy witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadeobservant | Unknownable accepting calm clever dependable dignified extroverted happy independent ingenious introverted kind knowledgeable logical mature modest nervous organised patient powerful proud quiet relaxed religious responsive sensible shy silly sympathetic warm wise |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
60% of people agree that The Odd Wife is complex
60% of people agree that The Odd Wife is searching
able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (20%) bold (30%) brave (10%) calm (0%) caring (20%) cheerful (10%) clever (0%) complex (60%) confident (20%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (10%) extroverted (0%) friendly (30%) giving (10%) happy (0%) helpful (10%) idealistic (30%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (40%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (20%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (30%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (60%) self-assertive (20%) self-conscious (20%) sensible (0%) sentimental (30%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (30%) sympathetic (0%) tense (40%) trustworthy (10%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (10%)
anon thinks: spontaneous, sentimental, complex, searching, idealistic.
Tracy thinks: bold, intelligent, trustworthy, self-assertive, searching, spontaneous.
Andie thinks: complex, energetic, intelligent, tense, sentimental, caring.
ds thinks: idealistic, reflective, tense, searching, complex.
Celti thinks: complex, intelligent, reflective, bold, self-assertive, tense.
Shellie thinks: searching, giving, adaptable, reflective, self-conscious, complex.
Samantha thinks: sentimental, caring, self-conscious, friendly, loving, helpful.
mox thinks: searching, cheerful, idealistic, spontaneous, bold, friendly.
Jeremiah thinks: confident, friendly, witty, brave, loving, intelligent.
anon thinks: confident, complex, searching, tense, adaptable.
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