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 Thinkery's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaadaptablecomplex intelligent warm | Blind Spotableaccepting caring cheerful clever confident friendly giving happy independent logical loving mature observant proud quiet reflective responsive searching self-assertive sentimental trustworthy witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadeintroverted | Unknownbold brave calm dependable dignified energetic extroverted helpful idealistic ingenious kind knowledgeable modest nervous organised patient powerful relaxed religious self-conscious sensible shy silly spontaneous sympathetic tense wise |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
60% of people agree that Thinkery is intelligent
able (30%) accepting (10%) adaptable (20%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (10%) cheerful (10%) clever (20%) complex (20%) confident (10%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (20%) giving (10%) happy (20%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (30%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (60%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (10%) loving (20%) mature (10%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (20%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (10%) quiet (10%) reflective (50%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (20%) searching (10%) self-assertive (20%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (10%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (20%) warm (30%) wise (0%) witty (20%)
LHB thinks: able, clever, trustworthy, warm, observant, reflective.
susansinclair thinks: friendly, intelligent, observant, reflective, complex, adaptable.
Cristina thinks: giving, intelligent, reflective, witty, warm.
Barb thinks: intelligent, independent, able, cheerful, clever.
12frogs thinks: trustworthy, witty, intelligent, caring, independent.
lurk thinks: confident, quiet, happy, responsive, able.
qB thinks: intelligent, independent, reflective, responsive, warm.
loren thinks: intelligent, adaptable, reflective, self-assertive, complex.
nun thinks: self-assertive, loving, proud, logical, mature.
Bigi thinks: searching, loving, happy, sentimental, friendly, accepting.
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