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Recently, we have learned about the Jo-Hari Window. It teaches us about four things. What we know about ourselves (open), what another knows about us the we don’t (blind), what we know about ourselves that no one else knows (hidden), and finally what no body knows about us (unknown) . Students were asked to go out and ask people close to us and strangers as well as how they perceive our personality including the positive traits and the negatives as well. In doing so, I can analyze all the answers and take those that were negative and improve on them, therefore making me a better person per say. I personally asked some of my friends, then family, and finally fellow class mates what they see in my personality.
As I went asking my close friends about how they perceived my personality, I received many similar and different points of view. I got a lot of things like I’m nice, funny, smart, caring, gives good advice, open to new things, artistic, creative, daring, passionate, unique, open, very opinionated, fun to be around, loud, etc. These responses were from my closer friends. These responses are very realistic (not to sound conceited) and all positive. Then of coarse as they continue on, after all the positives to put me at ease, comes the negatives. From my close friends I got negative responses such as I’m very blunt most of the time, obnoxious, to defensive, shy at first, manipulative, persuasive, persistent, apathetic at times, judgmental at times, too self-absorbed at times, that I don’t care about anything sometimes, don’t listen sometimes, that I’m in a “fantasy land” too much, I always have to have “the last word”, etc. I analyzed and thought about these responses deeply. I did take offense to some of them like that they think I’m self-absorbed, which in my view I am not. But maybe I am. Otherwise the other responses were accurate to some level I suppose. I learn from these negatives to improve on them.
Then after I asked...