Irony'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 Irony's.

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

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (16%) cheerful (16%) clever (0%) complex (16%) confident (16%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (33%) giving (16%) happy (0%) helpful (16%) idealistic (16%) independent (33%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (16%) kind (50%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (16%) modest (50%) nervous (0%) observant (16%) organised (33%) patient (16%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (50%) reflective (16%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (16%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (16%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (50%) warm (16%) wise (0%) witty (33%)

Description Breakdown (6 people)

Jeff thinks: independent, kind, observant, quiet, witty, helpful.
suki thinks: complex, quiet, modest, kind, witty, warm.
suki (in addition!) thinks: trustworthy, reflective, kind, quiet, modest.
STARRY thinks: organised, independent, confident, trustworthy, friendly, modest.
Don thinks: introverted, silly, trustworthy, organised, giving, idealistic.
buangala thinks: patient, sensible, mature, caring, cheerful, friendly.

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> independent, observant, reflective, trustworthy</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> caring, cheerful, complex, confident, friendly, giving, helpful, idealistic, introverted, kind, mature, modest, organised, patient, quiet, sensible, silly, warm, 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> self-conscious, spontaneous</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, adaptable, bold, brave, calm, clever, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, happy, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, logical, loving, nervous, powerful, proud, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, sentimental, shy, sympathetic, tense, wise</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (16%) cheerful (16%) clever (0%) complex (16%) confident (16%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (33%) giving (16%) happy (0%) helpful (16%) idealistic (16%) independent (33%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (16%) kind (50%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (16%) modest (50%) nervous (0%) observant (16%) organised (33%) patient (16%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (50%) reflective (16%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (16%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (16%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (50%) warm (16%) wise (0%) witty (33%) <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 21.4.2026, 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=Irony">view Irony's full data</a>. </div>

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