Johari Window

To explain it simply, Johari Window is a diagram showing relationships between a person and others.

Below is the Johari Window.

Source: https://medium.com/digital-experience-design/the-johari-window-as-a-part-of-the-design-process-4cd79a921f4e

As you can see, the diagram is divided into four areas:

• Arena
  Describes all things that both parties know
• Blind
  Describes all things that others know something that you are not aware of
• Hidden
  Describes all things that only you know. Probably those things are private and you don’t want to disclose them to public
• Unknown
  Describes all things that others don’t know and you are not aware of

Interestingly, we could enlarge the Arena quadrant by doing the followings.

• Decrease the Blind Area
  We need to request for feedbacks from others
• Decrease the Unknown Area
  We need to share our discoveries to others
• Decrease the Hidden Area
  We need to choose whether we want to disclose certain information to public (self-disclosure)
• From Unknown to Hidden
  We need to discover all the hidden aspects within ourselves (self-discovery)