Big John'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 Big John's.

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

Dominant Traits

60% of people think that Big John is calm
60% of people think that Big John is observant

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

Dana thinks: loving, trustworthy, friendly, silly, clever, powerful.
Karen thinks: friendly, quiet, silly, caring, calm.
vtbiochemgoddess thinks: accepting, calm, modest, observant, warm.
Lori thinks: loving, giving, sentimental, observant, introverted, sympathetic.
luna thinks: patient, calm, observant, quiet, giving, adaptable.

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> accepting, adaptable, modest</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> calm, caring, clever, friendly, giving, introverted, loving, observant, patient, powerful, quiet, sentimental, silly, sympathetic, trustworthy, warm</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, relaxed, sensible</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, bold, brave, cheerful, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, happy, idealistic, independent, ingenious, intelligent, kind, knowledgeable, logical, mature, nervous, organised, proud, reflective, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, shy, spontaneous, tense, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people think that Big John is calm 60% of people think that Big John is observant <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (20%) adaptable (20%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (60%) caring (20%) cheerful (0%) clever (20%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (40%) giving (40%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (20%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (40%) mature (0%) modest (20%) nervous (0%) observant (60%) organised (0%) patient (20%) powerful (20%) proud (0%) quiet (40%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (20%) shy (0%) silly (40%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (20%) tense (0%) trustworthy (20%) warm (20%) 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=Big John">view Big John'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.