Definition of Self Awareness:
1. An awareness of one’s own personality or individuality.
2. Conscious knowledge of one’s own character, feelings, motives and desires.
3. Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don’t align with your internal standards.
Types of Self Awareness
There are two types of self-awareness: private and public.
Private self-awareness is when people are aware of something about themselves that others might not be — like being anxious about reading out loud.
Public self-awareness is when people are aware of how others see them.
Johari Window Technique
The Johari window is a technique designed to help people better understand their relationship with themselves and others.
It was created by psychologists Joseph Luft (1916–2014) and Harrington Ingham (1916–1995) in 1955, and is used primarily in self-help groups and corporate settings as a heuristic exercise.
Luft and Ingham named their model “Johari” using a combination of their first names.
The 4 Quadrants
Arena/Open
The open area is that part of our conscious self – our attitudes, behaviour, motivation, values, and way of life – that we are aware of and that is known to others. We move within this area with freedom. We are “open books”.
Façade/hidden
Adjectives selected by the subject, but not by any of their peers, go in this quadrant. These are things the peers are either unaware of, or that are untrue but for the subject’s claim.
Blind Spot
Adjectives not selected by subjects, but only by their peers go here. These represent what others perceive but the subject does not.
Unknown
Adjectives that neither the subject nor the peers selected go here. They represent the subject’s behaviours or motives that no one participating recognizes – either because they do not apply or because of collective ignorance of these traits.
Further reading Johari Window
https://www.mindtools.com/au7v71d/the-johari-window
Online test Johari Window
https://kevan.org/johari
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