Help?

[foleyartist1]

Hi! I'm trying to do a Johari Window of myself as an exercise to examine perceptions. I would love it if any of you who know me (or have met me, or have at least formed an impression of me online or something) would help me out. Basically, all you do is look at a list of adjectives and pick the five or six that you most strongly associate with me.

Comments

[gaudior]

Two tricky things about this!

One is that I wanted "playful," and it wasn't on the list.

The other is that you have lots of attributes, and I kept feeling like pinning it down to just five or six was simplifying.

But cool.

[foleyartist1]

Ah! I like "playful," thank you! And thank you for doing this. ^_^

I know--the first step was for me to select five or six, and I thought narrowing maybe eight or ten down to five or six felt pretty arbitrary and like the results wouldn't be quite right (not that I only have 8 or 10 attributes, but even picking "main" ones is tricky).

I do find it fascinating and illuminating so far, though. For example, there are at least two adjectives that have each been picked by more than one person and that I have found surprising because they're not how I view myself at all. There's a lot of food for thought here.

[seishonagon]

Johari windows are fascinating. We did them as part of a big leadership training thing at my school, among other personality/leadership/attribute assessments. They can be really useful.

Incidentally, the three items that came up in "Facade" when I looked at it were all items I considered clicking on.

Of all the assessments we did, though, the Gallup Srength Finder actually turned out to be the most useful for leadership and business purposes. It has some really powerful stuff, which I've already found is also applicable in my personal life.

[foleyartist1]

Incidentally, the three items that came up in "Facade" when I looked at it were all items I considered clicking on.Very interesting info, thanks! (Also, your "tense" was one I later thought was better than "bold" as a core descriptor of me. I think when I was originally selecting terms I just didn't even see "tense

[seishonagon]

The other section I found really useful in the Strength Finder book was the "leading others with this trait" information. It included tips for reaching out to people I'd never even thought of, because those things would never work with me in a million years. I've been using those tips with great success at work, both with fellow teachers and with my students.

And yeah, those reports are bizarrely on point. I was further impressed when I saw the report it generated for someone else who showed the same 5 strengths as I did, and the report was surprisingly different, because it's generated by very specific things you put for each question. Apparently it takes something like 2.3 million people before you're likely to find someone else with exactly the same report as you.

And no problem - I think Johari Windows are fun for all involved.

[foleyartist1]

*nod* Yeah, I definitely think some traits on there are ones that Person A might view as distinct and Person B might be like, "What's the difference?" Which has to affect the results, but the effects would be hard to quantify.