Comments on: A model for mapping personality awareness

A model for mapping personality awareness

airguitar — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:17:39 -0800

The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram 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. To start, pick the five or six words that you feel best describe you. Your results will be saved, under a name of your choosing, so that you can send your friends and colleagues directly to your Window.

By: BuddhaInABucket

BuddhaInABucket — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:00:06 -0800

very cool- it was nice to see that my 'facade' immediately emptied out into my 'arena'. And my 'blind spots' were mostly pleasant surprises. Thanks for the post!

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:15:51 -0800

Very cool indeed. I like the idea a lot, but I'm not really comfortable asking people to compliment me. I feel it could put them in an awkward position. Even harder would be to get responses for the Nohari Window (tiny link from the bottom of the Johari page - basically same but with weaknesses instead of strengths). As much as I'd love to know what people think of me, I don't think it's fair to ask them, even my close friends. I asked my SO, but that's it for now.

By: fFish

fFish — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:42:25 -0800

I think it's instructive that I want to highlight around 6 to 7 traints in the Johari, But more than a dozen in the Nohari. If i could mark insecure more than once I would :-/ .

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:58:09 -0800

Oh no, now the memes are jumping from LJ to MF. It's just like the global flu pandemic.

By: wilful

wilful — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:07:03 -0800

yes that's quite interesting. Pity most of my friends are behind fun killing firewalls.

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:58:13 -0800

Hey Wilful, I do have a home connection if you really want to know how much you're kidding yourself.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:30:00 -0800

complex introverted proud searching self-conscious tense I picked mainly negatives so my shared windows would tend to be full of positive attributes.

By: ereshkigal45

ereshkigal45 — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:36:34 -0800

I did the Johari Window years ago with a group of cow-workers at one of those touchy-feely team building weekends, and was pleased to see that my blind spot - what others see about me that I don't see about myself - was relatively small. I wonder how far down one can shrink that window.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:37:33 -0800

My partner has something similar at work, called "360 degree feedback". Coworkers and superiors both respond, anonymously. Quite useful.

By: nile_red

nile_red — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:14:34 -0800

yeah, this has been all over my LJ friends list since about a week ago...still, it's pretty cool, although the Nohari window is brutal...

By: Spatch

Spatch — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:11:36 -0800

We had these in junior high, only they were called slam books.

By: daq

daq — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:09:53 -0800

AUGH!!!! LJ-MEME'S!!!! HELP!!! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!!

By: daq

daq — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:10:19 -0800

AUGH!!!! MYSPACE MEME'S!!!! HELP!!! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!!

By: daq

daq — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:10:53 -0800

AUGH!!! *pant* *pant* *pant* *wheeze* I'm getting to old for this comedic over-reacting.

By: Electric Elf

Electric Elf — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:32:22 -0800

I first encountered this during an interpersonal communication class: and ereshkigal45's right, it's commonly used in those sorts of team-building training classes. You can discover just how little your coworkers actually feel about you.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:50:39 -0800

So far, "kind," "caring," and "wise" have shown up in my blind spots, and it really is my blind spot. I consider myself to be none of those things.

By: palmcorder_yajna

palmcorder_yajna — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:57:51 -0800

Yay! Harrington Ingham's son is a very good friend of mine, and Harrington the Elder was a marvellous man. Makes me a little misty to see his name in the blue, actually. BTW, from what I understand, the Johari Window was kind of a joke to its developers. I hear that they were much amused by the following it developed.