Daniel Avery'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 Daniel Avery's.

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

All Percentages

able (25%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (50%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (50%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (25%) extroverted (25%) friendly (25%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (25%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (25%) introverted (25%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (25%) logical (25%) loving (50%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (25%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (25%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (25%) spontaneous (25%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (50%) warm (0%) wise (25%) witty (25%)

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Amy thinks: able, loving, wise, silly, complex.
Andrew Bradley thinks: caring, spontaneous, friendly, extroverted, trustworthy, energetic.
Cyril thinks: complex, caring, logical, reflective, intelligent, witty.
Ruth Avery thinks: knowledgeable, idealistic, trustworthy, loving, searching, introverted.

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> introverted, reflective, 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> able, caring, complex, energetic, extroverted, friendly, idealistic, intelligent, knowledgeable, logical, loving, searching, spontaneous, trustworthy, wise, 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> quiet, self-conscious, sentimental</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, calm, cheerful, clever, confident, dependable, dignified, giving, happy, helpful, independent, ingenious, kind, mature, modest, nervous, observant, organised, patient, powerful, proud, relaxed, religious, responsive, self-assertive, sensible, shy, sympathetic, tense, warm</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (25%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (50%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (50%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (25%) extroverted (25%) friendly (25%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (25%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (25%) introverted (25%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (25%) logical (25%) loving (50%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (25%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (25%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (25%) spontaneous (25%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (50%) warm (0%) wise (25%) witty (25%) <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 14.8.2025, using data from 4 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/johari?view=Daniel Avery">view Daniel Avery'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.