How Much Do You Really Know About You? What's In Your Johari Window?

Have you ever thought about how well you actually know yourself? According to American psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham, our personalities can be divided into four windows and they called their discovery the Johari Window. Basically, it goes like this:


ARENA - Known to Self & Known by Others - Examples of this could be a known fact about you such as, that you enjoy roller coasters or you hate chocolate. FACADE - Known to Self & Unknown by Others - An examples of this could be that you know that you dislike your job, but not one else around you knows this.
BLIND SPOT - Unknown to Self but Known to Others - An example of this could be that people know you to be rude but you are not aware of it.
THE UNKNOWN - Unknown to Self and Unknown to Others - An example of this could be one day you discover that after visiting a casino, you've awakened a gambling addiction inside of you.

Do you know what's in your Arena and Facade? And wouldn't it be nice to know what is in your Blind Spot and what could possibly be in your Unknown?

Here is a link to an interactive Johari Window, ask your spouse, friends or co workers to do it with you. It can be an eye opener. http://kevan.org/johari?name=joppyman

Bishop Weeks Strikes Below The Belt! (so to speak)

Bishop Weeks Gives a Good One-Two Punch to Wife Juanita Bynum!

Round Two - Bishop Surrenders

"Baby, go ahead you know I'm just playing...."

Is this a little too late? Why the heck didn't he decide to shut up and pray sooner?
Bishop was there really a book at all? Or, is this just a media hoax to get the jury to see you as a nice guy? I'm Just Asking.......

UPDATE: Bishops Weeks pulled the video from his web site. Could it be that he was just playing about the apology and now he is serious? "Apology over. The book sells!"

TOYS R US Gift Receipt Policy Sucks!!!

This information is based on my horrid experience at Toys R Us. You will find during your Christmas shopping, the stores automatically present you with a gift receipt and a little note on the top of the gift receipt encourages you to give that particular receipt to your intended gift recipient. Now guess why the stores would go through all that trouble just for little ole you?

I suspect that since Toys R Us has been losing money over the last few years, they have come up with a creative and sneaky little way to deal with consumers returning items with the gift receipts. Even if you pay cash, Toys R Us will not return the item and give back cash if you present the gift receipt. They will only give you a store credit. The store manager in the Toys R Us in Clinton, MD rudely stated that the gift receipt is not an actual receipt. HUH? What does that mean? I was given the gift receipt when I paid cash for my items, how could it not be an actual receipt? And why print it up at the time of the transaction if it is not connected to the transaction?

Toys R Us has found a legal way to hold on to your money. If you buy your niece or nephew or cousin something from Toys R Us, give them the actual receipt and if necessary keep a copy for your records. That way, if Toys R US doesn't have the item they would rather have in stock, then Junior can get the money and go over to one of the "Super Stores" and get the item probably at a cheaper price.

File this one under consumer rip offs!

Evening Fun

This is a fun brain exerciser and it requires a little blog honor. This is a visual test to see how perceptive you are. The exercise requires you to view the following video and count how many times the players in the white shirts pass the ball back and forth. That's it. But if you view the video more than once, you will not get a true gauge of your perception.

Here is the link to the video, java is required:

http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html

Blog honor should kick in right about now. How many times did the white shirts pass the ball back and forth?

Now watch the video again and this time do not count the balls being passed back and forth, just look at the video.

Did you have surprising results?

It's called inattentional blindness and you can read more about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness

That's pretty cool!

Saturday Afternoon Question

What would you do in this gas gauging price age, if you pulled up to a gas pump and the owner had obviously made a mistake on the price?Instead of cracking your head for $3.32 a gallon, they set the price for $0.33. Would you pump anyway and call your relatives and friends so they can fill their tanks up too? I mean really! The oil companies have been getting us for years! Or would you pass this opportunity up thinking that your integrity is more important then saving a few dollars? What would you really do? Check out this story:
http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/odd/2007/12/07/ODD.33.Cent.Gas/
Hmm since we are actually talking about honesty, let me be honest here. If the kids weren't with me, I would probably pump my gas anyway. If I had to make a decision like that in front of the kids, I'd do what I knew in my heart was the right thing and bite my lip all the way home. Just being honest!

Nevaeh Richardson - Heaven Spelled Backwards

There was a little baby girl born sometime around the 26th of November named Nevaeh Richardson. Unfortunately, she was born into a family where at least one of the parents is a psychopath. She was sexually assaulted and murdered and her 21 year old father, Christopher Richardson, has been charged with her rape and murder. She was 8 days old! WHY?
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/14759394/detail.html?rss=det&taf=det
Nevaeh, You will only know pure love now. I am so sorry that you had to face pure evil while you were here.