Looking Through the Johari Window: At Self Perception
As Robert Burns famously (and with Scottish flair and inflection) put it: “O would some gift the Power gie us, to see ourselves as ithers see us”. Only slightly less famously, two psychologists, Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham, developed their own tool for exploring the world of self-perception and perception by others. Taking the Brangelina form of their names, they called it the Johari Window, which they propose has 4 panes:    Known to Self   Not Known to Self  Known to Others   Open    Blind  Not Known to Others    Hidden    Unknown               The Open Quadrant represents information that is readily seen or easily inferred about someone: for example, walking past a stranger you...