The Johari Window relates to data about a person from four viewpoints, including knowledge, emotions, and abilities. Using the data from the Johari Window for each quadrant for each person, I will consider how I show myself differently to three distinct people (Hidalgo, 2019). I will speak with different persons for each quadrant—the blind selves, the open selves, the hidden selves, and the unknown selves—the Health Services manager and Public Health Officer. The first quadrant, Open Self, denotes most of what my friends and I know already. The second quadrant, known as the Blind Self, is when someone is aware of something about me that I have not disclosed to them. The next quadrant is the Hidden Self, which denotes that while other people may not be aware of a particular aspect of us, we are. Then comes the Unknown Self quadrant, where neither we nor anybody else knows anything about us. The Johari Window can be thought of as a method that improves one’s understanding of oneself and interpersonal communication.
Open Self
Although I consider myself to be an open book, I was astonished to discover during my interviews that I am not as open as I had previously believed. Everyone said, “There are things about you that I do not know,” demonstrating that I am not being entirely honest. They added that I was more receptive to meeting new people than most people are, and given that I enjoy interacting with others and am a social butterfly, I believe this has an impact on how much information I divulge to them.
Hidden Self
There should be some private information about us, and we will work hard to keep it that way because we know that everyone struggles with keeping their secrets hidden and would want to do so. I keep a few things to myself, and while not everyone is aware of them, some are. I keep from the Health Services manager the things I do with my Public Health Officer and the things I believe may disappoint or irritate him. Because of how Public Health Officers sometimes react when you tell them stuff like this and because I want to make my relationships more private than public.
Blind Self
I have no idea how my actions and words effect me personally or how they affect those around me. The health Services manager has constantly reminded me never to speak before considering what I would say. I am not entirely sure why I do this, but I have realized that I do it frequently because after saying something not all that smart, I take a moment to reflect on why I thought that was a bad thing to say (Yucel, 2022). It was the same in each of the three interviews I gave, and I am positive it was the same with everyone else who knew me. I never gave what I said much thought, which is sometimes a terrible thing but occasionally can be a good thing.
Unknown self
The Health Services manager brought out or demonstrated the unknown to me. I believe this because, although it may not be instrumental, when your senior tells you to pursue your dreams for a career in life continuously, it tends to highlight the as-yet-unknown goals you may have. This is because it encourages you to daydream and consider the possibilities. Numerous things were once a part of your unknown self, such as whatever you were unaware of at one point. For instance, I recently learned that I have double joints instead of one, although this fact was previously unknown to everyone.
Reflection
Overall, I do not think it would be better to change anything about my open or hidden self since I do not think it would enhance anything to see how I talk to others. For my blind self, it has revealed how many things I have said without thinking about them and until now, I always forgot about once someone mentioned them. With that stated, I believe that I will be attempting to correct that and taking a few moment to consider what I am going to say in order to ensure that it would be appropriate and consider how it would effect those around me if I were to say it. That is something I would like to change since I believe it has an impact on my ability to communicate.
Reference
Hidalgo, E. S., Wandl-Vogt, E., Dorn, A., & Souza, R. R. (2019, October). Mapping uncertainty around research data: a Digital Humanities transdisciplinary perspective adopting the Johari window. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (pp. 804-809).
Yucel, C. (2022). Value of Reflective Practice for Language Teachers. LANGUAGE TEACHER, 46, 35.
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