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2 - Profiling¹: "Who am I?" - On the benefits of self-knowledge

different little stones are provided, which can be assembled in
infinite combinations. What a person makes out of it, how he
uses and assembles the little stones, can be very different, it
depends on the upbringing, the environment, the personal
relationships and experiences and just the own decisions".
(Ballier, Wendel 2010, p. 17)

Discovering and exploiting potential for improvement

Personality diagnostics tools are not only used to analyze
personality, but also provide information about concrete
opportunities for change. Furthermore, they allow conclusions to
be drawn about untapped potential for improvement: You
recognize your strengths, but also weaknesses; the analysis
shows you which strengths you can strengthen and which
weaknesses you can mitigate. However: There are also limits.

Jule Specht, for example, demonstrates how difficult it is to
assess one's own personality realistically. Due to so-called "blind
spots", which can be described as gaps in self-knowledge,
people find it difficult to assess themselves. We then cannot see
ourselves as we really are. As a consequence, people usually
know others better than they know themselves and can assess
their weaknesses and strengths much more objectively and
realistically than is possible in relation to their own person (cf.
Specht 2018, p. 17.ff.).

So what to do? Let's take a look through or at the Johari
window, that is, the model that Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham
described as a window of conscious and unconscious

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