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 lydea's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenadependableindependent organised reflective | Blind Spotableaccepting brave caring cheerful clever confident extroverted friendly giving happy helpful idealistic intelligent kind knowledgeable mature observant religious responsive searching self-assertive sensible spontaneous sympathetic trustworthy warm |
| Not Known to Others | Façadelogicalproud | Unknownadaptable bold calm complex dignified energetic ingenious introverted loving modest nervous patient powerful quiet relaxed self-conscious sentimental shy silly tense wise witty |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (33%) accepting (8%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (8%) calm (0%) caring (25%) cheerful (16%) clever (16%) complex (0%) confident (33%) dependable (25%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (16%) friendly (33%) giving (8%) happy (8%) helpful (8%) idealistic (8%) independent (16%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (16%) introverted (0%) kind (8%) knowledgeable (33%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (16%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (8%) organised (25%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (33%) relaxed (0%) religious (50%) responsive (8%) searching (16%) self-assertive (16%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (16%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (16%) sympathetic (8%) tense (0%) trustworthy (25%) warm (8%) wise (0%) witty (0%)
yj thinks: clever, independent, organised, religious, trustworthy, confident.
shellLess thinks: knowledgeable, religious, organised, confident, able, spontaneous.
leslie thinks: sympathetic, self-assertive, clever, reflective, caring.
val thinks: friendly, knowledgeable, caring, organised, trustworthy, kind.
Jean thinks: dependable, giving, reflective, religious, sensible, observant.
suhui thinks: intelligent, mature, confident, religious, dependable, trustworthy.
Alvin thinks: able, intelligent, knowledgeable, extroverted, religious, self-assertive.
eli law thinks: confident, friendly, knowledgeable, extroverted, caring.
Sarah thinks: able, mature, sensible, independent, friendly, reflective.
Phil'lin Good thinks: cheerful, happy, friendly, spontaneous, searching, accepting.
anonymous thinks: brave, cheerful, idealistic, warm, responsive.
PhilGd thinks: able, helpful, searching, dependable, reflective, religious.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-