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 bailadora's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenadependableintroverted knowledgeable quiet trustworthy warm | Blind Spotableaccepting caring complex confident dignified friendly giving helpful idealistic independent intelligent kind loving mature nervous observant organised responsive shy tense wise witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façade | Unknownadaptable bold brave calm cheerful clever energetic extroverted happy ingenious logical modest patient powerful proud reflective relaxed religious searching self-assertive self-conscious sensible sentimental silly spontaneous sympathetic |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (50%) accepting (20%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (50%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (10%) confident (30%) dependable (10%) dignified (20%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (10%) giving (30%) happy (0%) helpful (10%) idealistic (10%) independent (10%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (40%) introverted (10%) kind (10%) knowledgeable (20%) logical (0%) loving (20%) mature (10%) modest (0%) nervous (20%) observant (10%) organised (10%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (10%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (10%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (10%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (10%) trustworthy (40%) warm (40%) wise (10%) witty (10%)
Cathleen thinks: caring, giving, able, responsive, loving, warm.
Breezey thinks: dependable, warm, knowledgeable, caring, witty.
anonymous thinks: tense, nervous, introverted, shy, quiet.
Anonymous thinks: intelligent, trustworthy, warm, wise, accepting, nervous.
Cathleen thinks: caring, trustworthy, giving, friendly, intelligent, complex.
Anonymous thinks: able, confident, caring, giving, organised.
RS thinks: able, mature, accepting, dignified, idealistic.
saucyminx thinks: confident, observant, intelligent, kind, trustworthy.
Cathleen thinks: knowledgeable, caring, loving, trustworthy, able, warm.
P thinks: able, confident, helpful, independent, intelligent, dignified.
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