Johari Window results

[devi]

huskyteer had my favourite subject line of the people who've done this meme - "there are things known and things unknown, and in between is the window".

And offensive_mango's results diagram is great. But I'm away from my own computer so you'll have to imagine the window-shape for yourselves...


Quadrant 1: What I thought about myself which others agreed with

Counting my own votes in this:
spontaneous 10 (hey guys, I'm in Foreign again!)
reflective 8
adaptable 6
idealistic 6
brave 3 (though I'm kind of regretting this one today. I have little sense of physical danger or practical risk, but in other ways, mostly involving raising difficult stuff with people, I am a gibbering coward)

Quadrant 2: What I thought about myself that no one else thought

None of my six went unpicked, but one of them was only picked by one other person, and that was knowledgeable. That was kind of gratifying considering why I'd picked it. I thought, well, I can't claim to be 'intelligent' or 'clever' compared to you brilliant lot, but at least I know a lot of useless trivia...

Which is why I was surprised by the top result in Quadrant 3.

Quadrant 3: what others thought about me that I didn't choose for myself
Words with stars are ones I almost picked for myself but decided against.

intelligent 12 (gosh. Like I said, I thought I came across as a bit of a ditz.)
friendly 7 (thanks!)
* observant 6
* independent 6
* searching 5
wise
warm
modest
caring
complex - all 4
able
powerful - both 3 (powerful?!)
witty
clever
bold
dependable (Boggle. I was once three hours late for a dinner party at the house of one of the people who picked that.)
giving
dignified
quiet - all 2
energetic
extroverted
*self-conscious
happy
loving
trustworthy
proud
patient
accepting
religious
calm
mature
responsive - all 1

I actually set quite a lot of store by the 1s, more than I expected to, because a lot of them come from people who know me very well indeed. And I'm amused that only one person (again someone who knows me a good while) went for 'self-conscious'. The nerd in me is still there, but buried under a pile of busy, people-filled years.

Quadrant 4: things I don't know and no one else knows about myself

Because an empty quadrant would be dull, I'm going to use this to list the words no one picked for me:

sensible
logical
organised (well, you got those right)
introverted (you should have seen me at school)
sentimental
kind
shy
silly
relaxed
(but not tense either)
sympathetic (OH SOD OFF WITH YOUR SILLY PROBLEMS. Not really! Joking!... Where are you going?)
cheerful (no.1 adjective people used about me at university, which annoyed me - I wanted to be enigmatic)
helpful
nervous
self-assertive
confident



juggzy made me splutter with laughter by including 'big tits' among all the other words. And like people said, the word list does suck quite a bit. Why all the similar words? Brave *and* bold, why? So. What words would you like to have seen in something like this? 'Forgetful'? 'Hedonistic'? 'Perverted'? 'Mutant freak'? 'Barking mad'?

edit: This is so amazing and trippy and beautiful and I WANT ONE. From gillen

Comments

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

That's a very good point. A lot of self-described eccentrics are just 'I'm mad, me' people.

According to goth folklore the word 'goth' would work the same way - if you say you're one, you probably aren't :)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I think true eccentrics are blissfully unaware, or else think it's the rest of the world that's a bit funny.

My boss told me you had to be rich to be eccentric, and I was therefore just plain weird.