... The second pane believes that some information will be known to us but not to the people we deal with. This is the pane, better known as "Mask," encourages us to engage in game playing, trickery, and the like. The larger this pane, the less chance we have of developing true relationships with others because such relationships are usually based heavily on trust. Pane three is potentially dangerous because there is information known by others, that we do not know about ourselves. Called the "Blind- spot," we risk exposing weakness not known to us and can be exploited by others. Finally the forth pane, "the great unknown," describes a special place that is secret. It is a source, for the most part, of personal creativity and other resources, which we may never have even suspected. Although one might see this theory as the least threatening, it really is the ...

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