Johari Window

What frames the window - Nature or Nurture?

If you're concerned that your lower-left quadrant is too big and you're only as "sick as your secrets", perhaps you're just introverted and shy.  It's when you vomit up your secrets in an attempt at catharsis that you highlight them in sharp relief against an imaginary normal and allow smug, "healthy" people to slap you with a "sick" label.

Maybe it's more accurate to say you're only as sick as your revelations: before they discovered bodies in his crawlspace, John Wayne Gacy wasn't a "sick clown" - he was just a clown.

Of course, this begs the question of why you felt it necessary to keep things secret in the first place.  You, yourself must have projected them onto "normal" and believed they fell short.  Where did this belief come from - Within or Without?  "Within" aligns with the Kantian philosophy of a priori knowledge, "Without" would line up with William James's Pragmatism - it just depends which belief you bet on.

Oh. My. Goodness.

I finished The Metaphysical Club yesterday - I haven't made so many margin notes since Atlas Shrugged!  It's no wonder it won the Pulitzer Prize - it leads you through some rare air, what Robert Persig would call "the high country of the mind".  Like Persig, you might want to suck your thumb and wet yourself after a such prolonged venture above the treeline.  It'll make you want to throw a rock through the Johari Window just because you can.  Find it.  Read it.  You'll be buzzing with new ideas, but it's probably best to keep them secret - the "normal" people will think you need help.