Black swans as unknown unknowns in the matrix

After designing the Johari window, a business in matrixing evolves…

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Joe: We’re on to something with these matrix ideas. Remember Eisenhower asked us to fix him up with one for prioritization?

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Harry: And Rumsfeld just called. He wants to clarify combinations between known and unknown variables.

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Joe: Easy. Known-knowns like increases in world population. Known-unknowns like the earthquakes. Unknown-knowns like revolutions. And Unknown-unknowns.

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Harry: How can you know what unknown-unknowns are?

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Joe: They’re the black swans coming out of nowhere. The good like the internet. The bad like 9/11.

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Voice-over

Prime matrices: four, nine, sixteen boxes and so on. But the neatest and easiest to grasp are the fours.

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Johari Window

How to name a matrix...

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Johari Window

Joe: In the first box we put what we know and what others know about us. It’s public.

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Harry: OK. And then we have things we know about ourselves but keep hidden. Private.

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Joe: And then we have things we don’t perceive in ourselves but others see in us. Our blind spot.

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Harry: And then that big four-fifths of subconscious. We don’t know it and neither do others.

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Joe: It’s a matrix. What to call it?

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Harry: You, Joe. Me Harry. Johari.

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Voice-over

Now known as the Johari Window. Sounds vaguely Indian or Middle Eastern, only it's not.

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