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