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 tinglin's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaadaptablesensible | Blind Spotacceptingbold calm caring cheerful clever confident dependable dignified friendly giving happy ingenious intelligent loving observant patient quiet reflective relaxed self-assertive self-conscious sentimental shy silly spontaneous trustworthy warm witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadeindependentlogical searching | Unknownable brave complex energetic extroverted helpful idealistic introverted kind knowledgeable mature modest nervous organised powerful proud religious responsive sympathetic tense wise |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (0%) accepting (11%) adaptable (11%) bold (22%) brave (0%) calm (22%) caring (11%) cheerful (22%) clever (22%) complex (0%) confident (11%) dependable (11%) dignified (11%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (11%) giving (11%) happy (22%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (22%) intelligent (11%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (22%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (33%) organised (0%) patient (11%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (11%) reflective (22%) relaxed (11%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (11%) self-conscious (11%) sensible (11%) sentimental (33%) shy (11%) silly (11%) spontaneous (33%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (22%) warm (44%) wise (0%) witty (11%)
XIANG ROCKS thinks: calm, sentimental, shy, warm, loving, happy.
calvin thinks: bold, intelligent, observant, sentimental, self-conscious, reflective.
liz thinks: spontaneous, trustworthy, clever, confident, calm, cheerful.
jiaying thinks: warm, relaxed, loving, ingenious, happy.
lilin thinks: trustworthy, quiet, observant, giving, sensible.
mich thinks: bold, adaptable, observant, ingenious, spontaneous.
muggertoad thinks: warm, sentimental, self-assertive, friendly, dependable.
Shruti thinks: dignified, clever, spontaneous, warm, reflective, witty.
marcus thinks: caring, accepting, , cheerful, silly, patient.
You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-