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 senashenta's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenacomplexquiet | Blind Spotacceptingadaptable caring cheerful clever friendly giving intelligent introverted kind knowledgeable mature modest sentimental shy silly spontaneous tense trustworthy warm witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadenervousself-conscious sympathetic | Unknownable bold brave calm confident dependable dignified energetic extroverted happy helpful idealistic independent ingenious logical loving observant organised patient powerful proud reflective relaxed religious responsive searching self-assertive sensible wise |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (0%) accepting (12%) adaptable (37%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (50%) cheerful (12%) clever (25%) complex (12%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (50%) giving (50%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (37%) introverted (25%) kind (25%) knowledgeable (12%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (12%) modest (12%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (12%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (25%) shy (12%) silly (25%) spontaneous (37%) sympathetic (0%) tense (37%) trustworthy (12%) warm (12%) wise (0%) witty (12%)
Cat McD thinks: complex, introverted, modest, quiet, sentimental, friendly.
Kitty thinks: caring, intelligent, kind, friendly, knowledgeable, sentimental.
Khriskin thinks: cheerful, spontaneous, trustworthy, silly, kind, clever.
Caoilte thinks: friendly, spontaneous, adaptable, caring, accepting.
etcetera-cat thinks: adaptable, caring, giving, tense, shy, intelligent.
cassandracsenta thinks: adaptable, mature, giving, friendly, warm.
Sethi thinks: tense, giving, intelligent, clever, witty, introverted.
chaos_unspoken thinks: spontaneous, giving, caring, silly, tense.
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