Babel'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 Babel's.

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

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that Babel is cheerful
66% of people agree that Babel is friendly
66% of people think that Babel is giving

All Percentages

able (33%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (33%) cheerful (66%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (66%) giving (66%) happy (33%) helpful (33%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (33%) introverted (0%) kind (33%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (33%) mature (33%) modest (0%) nervous (33%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (33%) 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 (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (0%)

Description Breakdown (3 people)

Jun thinks: cheerful, mature, kind, giving, friendly.
Mab thinks: caring, cheerful, giving, friendly, patient.
Cam' thinks: happy, helpful, intelligent, loving, nervous, able.

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> friendly, kind, patient</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> able, caring, cheerful, giving, happy, helpful, intelligent, loving, mature, nervous</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, introverted</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> accepting, adaptable, bold, brave, clever, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, idealistic, independent, ingenious, knowledgeable, logical, modest, observant, organised, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, shy, silly, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, trustworthy, warm, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people think that Babel is cheerful 66% of people agree that Babel is friendly 66% of people think that Babel is giving <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (33%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (33%) cheerful (66%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (66%) giving (66%) happy (33%) helpful (33%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (33%) introverted (0%) kind (33%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (33%) mature (33%) modest (0%) nervous (33%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (33%) 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 (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) 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="http://kevan.org/johari">Interactive Johari Window</a> on 20.6.2025, using data from 3 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/johari?view=Babel">view Babel'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.