Aeolus's Johari Window

The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.

You can get your own Johari Window, or contribute to Aeolus's.

	Known to Self	Not Known to Self
Known to Others	Arena cheerful dependable happy independent	Blind Spot adaptable bold clever dignified energetic friendly giving idealistic intelligent kind knowledgeable modest responsive sensible sentimental shy tense trustworthy warm wise witty
Not Known to Others	Façade relaxed	Unknown able accepting brave calm caring complex confident extroverted helpful ingenious introverted logical loving mature nervous observant organised patient powerful proud quiet reflective religious searching self-assertive self-conscious silly spontaneous sympathetic
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.)

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (16%) bold (16%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (16%) clever (16%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (16%) dignified (16%) energetic (16%) extroverted (0%) friendly (33%) giving (16%) happy (33%) helpful (0%) idealistic (16%) independent (16%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (33%) introverted (0%) kind (16%) knowledgeable (16%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (16%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (33%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (33%) sentimental (16%) shy (33%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (16%) trustworthy (16%) warm (16%) wise (16%) witty (16%)

Description Breakdown (6 people)

Thomas thinks: cheerful, responsive, shy, tense, bold.
dependable warm shy friendly h thinks: dependable, warm, shy, friendly, happy.
Ricki thinks: energetic, intelligent, sensible, responsive, trustworthy.
yiran thinks: witty, independent, sentimental, idealistic, clever.
topppl thinks: friendly, adaptable, happy, intelligent, sensible.
Anonymous thinks: giving, knowledgeable, dignified, wise, modest, kind.

You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-

<table style="text-align:center;border-spacing:0px; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tr><td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:4px;width:50%;vertical-align:top;background:#ccf"> <h2 style="margin:0px">Arena</h2> <div style="font-size:0.7em">(known to self and others)</div> cheerful, dependable, happy, independent</td><td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:4px;width:50%;vertical-align:top;background:#fcc"> <h2 style="margin:0px">Blind Spot</h2> <div style="font-size:0.7em">(known only to others)</div> adaptable, bold, clever, dignified, energetic, friendly, giving, idealistic, intelligent, kind, knowledgeable, modest, responsive, sensible, sentimental, shy, tense, trustworthy, warm, wise, witty</td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:4px;width:50%;vertical-align:top;background:#cfc"> <h2 style="margin:0px">Façade</h2> <div style="font-size:0.7em">(known only to self)</div> relaxed</td><td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:4px;width:50%;background:#ccc"> <h2 style="margin:0px">Unknown</h2> <div style="font-size:0.7em">(known to nobody)</div> able, accepting, brave, calm, caring, complex, confident, extroverted, helpful, ingenious, introverted, logical, loving, mature, nervous, observant, organised, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, religious, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, silly, spontaneous, sympathetic</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (16%) bold (16%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (16%) clever (16%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (16%) dignified (16%) energetic (16%) extroverted (0%) friendly (33%) giving (16%) happy (33%) helpful (0%) idealistic (16%) independent (16%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (33%) introverted (0%) kind (16%) knowledgeable (16%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (16%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (33%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (33%) sentimental (16%) shy (33%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (16%) trustworthy (16%) warm (16%) wise (16%) witty (16%) <div style="border:1px solid #000; padding:8px; text-align:center;background:#eee"> Created by the <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">Interactive Johari Window</a> on 9.6.2026, using data from 6 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/johari?view=Aeolus">view Aeolus's full data</a>. </div>

The Interactive Johari Window was installed and grouted by Kevan, on the 11th of February 2006.
Questions? Check the FAQ.
If you can take criticism, there's also a darker Nohari Window.