paulaa'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 paulaa's.

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

Dominant Traits

100% of people think that paulaa is energetic
100% of people think that paulaa is friendly
100% of people think that paulaa is spontaneous

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (50%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (100%) extroverted (0%) friendly (100%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (50%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (50%) shy (0%) silly (50%) spontaneous (100%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (0%)

Description Breakdown (2 people)

Maartje thinks: cheerful, friendly, energetic, spontaneous, silly.
. thinks: spontaneous, sentimental, friendly, energetic, loving.

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> loving, sentimental, silly</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> cheerful, energetic, friendly, spontaneous</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> calm, powerful, self-conscious</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, caring, clever, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, extroverted, giving, happy, helpful, idealistic, independent, ingenious, intelligent, introverted, kind, knowledgeable, logical, mature, modest, nervous, observant, organised, patient, proud, quiet, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, sensible, shy, sympathetic, tense, trustworthy, warm, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people think that paulaa is energetic 100% of people think that paulaa is friendly 100% of people think that paulaa is spontaneous <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (50%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (100%) extroverted (0%) friendly (100%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (50%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (50%) shy (0%) silly (50%) spontaneous (100%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (0%) <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 2 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/johari?view=paulaa">view paulaa'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.