Johari musings

[eclectic_boy]

This is my first LJ discussion-post; normally I think Chat is the place for posting things I want to have conversations about, but this time LJ seemed the obvious choice because it's about the hottest fad in LJ, the Johari Window.

The more of these I fill out for my friends, the more I wonder how those particular adjectives made it into the 55 words you're allowed to describe someone with. It seems like they're missing some pretty widespread and fundamental traits that can define a personality. For instance, where's 'loyal'? 'Enthusiastic'? Where's something to describe a born leader? Why are things as similar as 'ingenious' and 'clever' both on there? 'Caring' and 'sympathetic'? Why is 'tense' there, if it's supposed to be positive or neutral qualities only?

Seems to me this sieve is too fine-meshed in some places, and has gaps in others. What strikes you as being missing or quasi-redundant from the list, if you have 55 adjectives to assess all personalities?

Comments

[gerbilicious85.livejournal.com]

I agree, there's too many words that mean practically the same thing with a lot of both good and bad traits missing even though they're important. For some of them it gives you the option then to really emphasize that you see someone as smart (and not much else) by choosing all those words. Or if they tend to flake out on commitments, you can hit them with "unreliable", "irresponsible", and probably a few others too.

I don't like that "child-like/fun" isn't on the johari window, so one must for that choose "childish" on the nohari window. And there's no "immature" selection, so it ends up meaning that instead.