zynixis'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 zynixis's.

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

Dominant Traits

80% of people think that zynixis is caring
80% of people agree that zynixis is friendly
60% of people think that zynixis is silly

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (80%) cheerful (40%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (20%) friendly (80%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (40%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (40%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (40%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (20%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (20%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (40%) sensible (20%) sentimental (20%) shy (0%) silly (60%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (20%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (0%)

Description Breakdown (5 people)

Liesl thinks: caring, sentimental, kind, loving, idealistic.
drea thinks: friendly, cheerful, silly, extroverted, idealistic, caring.
Lika thinks: cheerful, friendly, loving, silly, sensible, caring.
sabrinna thinks: kind, friendly, nervous, responsive, self-conscious.
Teh Pet thinks: friendly, self-conscious, silly, trustworthy, caring.

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, extroverted, friendly, loving</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, idealistic, kind, nervous, responsive, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, silly, trustworthy</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> helpful, religious</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, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, giving, happy, independent, ingenious, intelligent, introverted, knowledgeable, logical, mature, modest, observant, organised, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, relaxed, searching, self-assertive, shy, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, warm, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>80% of people think that zynixis is caring 80% of people agree that zynixis is friendly 60% of people think that zynixis is silly <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (80%) cheerful (40%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (20%) friendly (80%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (40%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (40%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (40%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (20%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (20%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (40%) sensible (20%) sentimental (20%) shy (0%) silly (60%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (20%) 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 5 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/johari?view=zynixis">view zynixis'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.