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Vogelhuber, Scheelen - What people really want

personality and behavioral characteristics have developed. The
Johari window (Luft, Ingham 1955) distinguishes four areas:

• area that we consciously make public and that others can
perceive,
• Area we don't want to make public because we see it as a
weakness of our own - we usually reject this area in
ourselves,
• Realm of the unconscious - things we do not know about
ourselves and others cannot perceive,
• Area of the "blind spot" - here it becomes visible to others
what we do not want to reveal about ourselves.

The goal of self-knowledge - also through personality
diagnostic tools - should be to gain more and more clarity
about the four areas, especially to identify the "blind
spots" so that we know what other people perceive about
us without us wanting to.

The potential experts Dorothee Brockmann and Andrea von
Schröder recommend steadily increasing the field of the public
person and reducing the fields of the secret and the blind spot.
Because then we are perceived by the people around us as
"authentic and coherent. Self-image and external image match"
(Brockmann, von Schröder 2017, p. 80).

The process of self-knowledge and the work with personality
diagnostic tools enable these shifts regarding the Johari fields.
The advantage: If we know what makes us tick, if we know
who we are, we have a secure foundation from which we can
work on the further development of our personality, for example
when we

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