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              Just as a reference for myself, I have my Johari window up top here. The 5 respondents were my parents, grandmother, and two friends (Fay and Alan, better known as The Ginger). I know it was ideal to get more variety, but I really only have the numbers for my close friends and family, and I don't have social media either. You aren't here to hear my excuses, though, so onto the analysis.     Of the 6 words I chose, I was fascinated to see how only half came up when my participants rated me. Nervous and shy were chosen by both friends and family, and witty was chosen by Fay and my mother. That much seems reasonable to me; after all, I am closer to Fay than I am The Ginger and really enjoy making stupid jokes on the spot, which is something they'd know better than him.     One thing that I found surprising was the facade spot. I can imagine nobody chosen relaxed since it seemed to contradict the nervous and shy descr...

    After a bit of pondering between two potential victims to use for this assignment, I decided on my childhood best friend, Melanie, since we've gone through essentially every stage and that gives me plenty of information to work with.     When it comes to the initiation stage, we were both very young, probably about 5 or 6, so we connected solely because our parents forced us into a playdate. So, since we were similar in age (Melanie was born in October 2006, and I February 2007) and both had the same average childhood interests like playing with dolls or stuffed animals, it was no surprise we connected. The experimentation stage began largely in this type of play as well. Melanie had a ton of stuffed animals, and we even had some of the same ones, so we'd make up little stories about them as children usually do.     As our friendship progressed further into the intensifying phase, I'd say that was about when we were 9 to 10 years old. Since we attended ...

      Allow me to begin by saying that although my speech was not perfect, at least I only needed one take to recite it and not three. The technical mishaps I had with my second speech were definitely absent from this one, which was delightful considering how stressful that was.     When it came to preparing my speech, I got all my resources and notecards together in a timely manner. I had my outline written out on time as opposed to the previous speech, so in terms of planning, there was an advantage to be had.       However, I do think my main issue is that I did not practice the speech just as much as I had wanted to. It is very apparent when you actually watch the speech just how lost in thought I was, so much so that I skipped a lot of the introduction, almost all of it. This was partially due to lack of practice and also due to the fact that I didn't add the introduction on my notecards, assuming I'd just have that part down. Clearly, I...