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 weizhen's.
| Known to Self |
Not Known to Self | |
| Known to Others | Arenaidealisticsensible sentimental trustworthy | Blind Spotableaccepting adaptable caring cheerful confident dependable energetic extroverted friendly giving happy helpful independent intelligent kind knowledgeable modest patient proud quiet self-assertive silly spontaneous tense warm witty |
| Not Known to Others | Façadereflective | Unknownbold brave calm clever complex dignified ingenious introverted logical loving mature nervous observant organised powerful relaxed religious responsive searching self-conscious shy sympathetic wise |
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.) | ||
able (9%) accepting (36%) adaptable (9%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (27%) cheerful (27%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (18%) dependable (18%) dignified (0%) energetic (45%) extroverted (27%) friendly (27%) giving (18%) happy (9%) helpful (18%) idealistic (27%) independent (18%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (9%) introverted (0%) kind (9%) knowledgeable (9%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (9%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (9%) powerful (0%) proud (9%) quiet (9%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (9%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (18%) sentimental (36%) shy (0%) silly (9%) spontaneous (27%) sympathetic (0%) tense (9%) trustworthy (27%) warm (18%) wise (0%) witty (9%)
fernie thinks: able, intelligent, independent, caring, giving, patient.
ethan thinks: accepting, caring, sensible, quiet, extroverted, warm.
Ros thinks: spontaneous, trustworthy, accepting, cheerful, dependable, energetic.
mingying thinks: caring, cheerful, extroverted, spontaneous, modest.
hard thinks: confident, idealistic, tense, proud, self-assertive.
aeon thinks: energetic, friendly, spontaneous, sentimental, trustworthy.
ly thinks: cheerful, energetic, giving, warm, accepting, idealistic.
ljx thinks: energetic, extroverted, idealistic, sensible, friendly, adaptable.
Xinyi thinks: knowledgeable, sentimental, trustworthy, independent, helpful, kind.
ting ting thinks: confident, dependable, friendly, sentimental, silly, helpful.
trashbin thinks: energetic, happy, sentimental, accepting, witty.
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