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 Vanessa Wunderlich's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenahelpfulintelligent responsive sympathetic witty | Blind Spotableadaptable bold caring cheerful confident dependable energetic extroverted friendly giving idealistic independent kind knowledgeable mature nervous patient powerful proud reflective religious searching self-conscious silly spontaneous trustworthy warm |
| Not Known to Others | Façadebrave | Unknownaccepting calm clever complex dignified happy ingenious introverted logical loving modest observant organised quiet relaxed self-assertive sensible sentimental shy tense wise |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (22%) accepting (0%) adaptable (11%) bold (22%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (11%) cheerful (22%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (11%) dependable (11%) dignified (0%) energetic (11%) extroverted (22%) friendly (11%) giving (11%) happy (0%) helpful (22%) idealistic (11%) independent (11%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (44%) introverted (0%) kind (11%) knowledgeable (22%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (22%) modest (0%) nervous (22%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (11%) powerful (22%) proud (11%) quiet (0%) reflective (22%) relaxed (0%) religious (11%) responsive (11%) searching (33%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (11%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (22%) spontaneous (11%) sympathetic (11%) tense (0%) trustworthy (11%) warm (22%) wise (0%) witty (22%)
Kuschelkamerad thinks: helpful, witty, trustworthy, intelligent, warm, responsive.
Tenshi thinks: independent, intelligent, helpful, confident, sympathetic, reflective.
Sabrina thinks: caring, proud, cheerful, intelligent, spontaneous, powerful.
anon thinks: religious, bold, able, extroverted, knowledgeable, searching.
anonymous thinks: mature, energetic, idealistic, intelligent, bold.
anonymous thinks: searching, patient, silly, dependable, nervous, witty.
anonymous thinks: extroverted, knowledgeable, powerful, self-conscious, cheerful.
M. thinks: giving, adaptable, mature, searching, warm, reflective.
anonymous thinks: able, friendly, nervous, kind, silly.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-