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