Uncover Your Personal And Professional Blind-Spots Using This Psychological Tool
A Johari window to the soul, if you will.
Blind-spot (noun) — an area in which a person lacks understanding or impartiality.
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” — Unknown
As illustrated by the definition at the beginning of this article, a blind-spot is an area that is obstructed from clear view, leading to an explicit deficiency in understanding or impartiality. In other words, blind-spots are the parts of your personality, and general modus operandi, that are unbeknownst to you.
We all have them — whether we believe we do, or not — and they can be both positive or negative qualities. At its core, the Johari Window represents the collective value of our individual's experiences, feelings, views, attitudes, skills, thoughts, intentions, and motivations. The benefit to becoming aware of these areas of our life is that a more well-rounded comprehension of our personal strengths and weaknesses provides us with the information we need to better navigate our relationships to others and to ourselves.
