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 djryan_ie's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenacomplexhelpful reflective self-conscious sentimental silly | Blind Spotableaccepting adaptable caring cheerful extroverted friendly giving happy idealistic independent intelligent kind knowledgeable logical loving mature modest nervous observant proud relaxed searching spontaneous sympathetic tense trustworthy warm wise witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façade | Unknownbold brave calm clever confident dependable dignified energetic ingenious introverted organised patient powerful quiet religious responsive self-assertive sensible shy |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (12%) accepting (6%) adaptable (6%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (12%) cheerful (12%) clever (0%) complex (31%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (6%) friendly (31%) giving (6%) happy (6%) helpful (12%) idealistic (12%) independent (18%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (43%) introverted (0%) kind (6%) knowledgeable (31%) logical (12%) loving (12%) mature (6%) modest (6%) nervous (12%) observant (31%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (6%) quiet (0%) reflective (12%) relaxed (6%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (25%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (18%) sensible (0%) sentimental (6%) shy (0%) silly (31%) spontaneous (6%) sympathetic (6%) tense (18%) trustworthy (25%) warm (6%) wise (6%) witty (37%)
Angharad thinks: idealistic, trustworthy, witty, loving, intelligent.
yo_momma thinks: friendly, witty, complex, observant, idealistic.
FTM thinks: intelligent, able, observant, tense, knowledgeable, logical.
jayne thinks: intelligent, trustworthy, complex, sympathetic, giving.
ferg thinks: accepting, cheerful, silly, warm, modest, sentimental.
mark thinks: complex, wise, observant, independent, searching, trustworthy.
Paul W thinks: caring, kind, knowledgeable, nervous, self-conscious, searching.
pandammonium thinks: silly, caring, tense, proud, intelligent.
someone thinks: silly, intelligent, friendly, tense, complex, witty.
martin_p_uk thinks: friendly, knowledgeable, intelligent, silly, self-conscious, witty.
Sonia thinks: friendly, witty, knowledgeable, able, cheerful, reflective.
Rich thinks: extroverted, helpful, trustworthy, self-conscious, relaxed.
briggsy thinks: friendly, spontaneous, independent, silly, adaptable.
Kate thinks: happy, independent, reflective, searching, observant.
sassha thinks: helpful, intelligent, knowledgeable, witty, searching.
Namlas thinks: observant, complex, nervous, logical, loving, mature.
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