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 universe42's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaintrovertedpatient quiet silly sympathetic | Blind Spotacceptingadaptable calm caring dependable friendly giving helpful intelligent modest relaxed responsive searching self-conscious sensible sentimental spontaneous trustworthy warm |
| Not Known to Others | Façade | Unknownable bold brave cheerful clever complex confident dignified energetic extroverted happy idealistic independent ingenious kind knowledgeable logical loving mature nervous observant organised powerful proud reflective religious self-assertive shy tense wise witty |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (0%) accepting (42%) adaptable (28%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (14%) caring (28%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (14%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (42%) giving (14%) happy (0%) helpful (14%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (28%) introverted (14%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (14%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (14%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (42%) reflective (0%) relaxed (14%) religious (0%) responsive (14%) searching (28%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (14%) sensible (14%) sentimental (14%) shy (0%) silly (42%) spontaneous (14%) sympathetic (28%) tense (0%) trustworthy (28%) warm (28%) wise (0%) witty (0%)
bob thinks: friendly, responsive, warm, accepting, sympathetic.
Dan thinks: caring, intelligent, quiet, warm, silly, helpful.
ewen thinks: silly, trustworthy, dependable, caring, patient, relaxed.
dima thinks: adaptable, accepting, quiet, modest, sympathetic, searching.
anonymous thinks: quiet, intelligent, introverted, silly, sentimental, self-conscious.
Me thinks: trustworthy, searching, friendly, giving, accepting.
Kirsten thinks: adaptable, calm, spontaneous, sensible, friendly.
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