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 abizzle's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenafriendlyhelpful loving mature | Blind Spotableaccepting brave caring cheerful confident dependable energetic extroverted giving happy independent intelligent kind proud quiet reflective relaxed religious searching self-conscious sensible sentimental spontaneous sympathetic trustworthy warm |
| Not Known to Others | Façadeintrovertedshy | Unknownadaptable bold calm clever complex dignified idealistic ingenious knowledgeable logical modest nervous observant organised patient powerful responsive self-assertive silly tense wise witty |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (9%) accepting (27%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (27%) calm (0%) caring (36%) cheerful (36%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (9%) dependable (9%) dignified (0%) energetic (18%) extroverted (9%) friendly (36%) giving (18%) happy (18%) helpful (9%) idealistic (0%) independent (27%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (9%) introverted (0%) kind (9%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (27%) mature (9%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (9%) quiet (9%) reflective (18%) relaxed (9%) religious (18%) responsive (0%) searching (18%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (27%) sensible (9%) sentimental (9%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (9%) sympathetic (9%) tense (0%) trustworthy (36%) warm (27%) wise (0%) witty (0%)
a friend! thinks: searching, reflective, religious, independent, self-conscious.
Angel thinks: trustworthy, caring, cheerful, helpful, loving.
Joyce thinks: able, happy, giving, independent, relaxed, sensible.
Tim thinks: brave, dependable, friendly, self-conscious, searching.
elizabeth thinks: cheerful, giving, caring, trustworthy, friendly, reflective.
Helen thinks: cheerful, intelligent, accepting, quiet, trustworthy, brave.
Alison thinks: accepting, caring, self-conscious, warm, friendly.
Rachel D thinks: sympathetic, kind, loving, caring, independent, warm.
Sarai thinks: accepting, cheerful, energetic, spontaneous, confident, brave.
ki thinks: warm, mature, extroverted, proud, sentimental.
morgan thinks: trustworthy, happy, energetic, religious, friendly, loving.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-