David Jacobs'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 David Jacobs's.

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

Dominant Traits

66% of people agree that David Jacobs is friendly

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (33%) adaptable (33%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (0%) clever (33%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (66%) giving (33%) happy (33%) helpful (33%) idealistic (0%) independent (33%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (33%) introverted (0%) kind (33%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (33%) nervous (0%) observant (33%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (33%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (33%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (33%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (33%) witty (33%)

Description Breakdown (3 people)

&m thinks: accepting, friendly, independent, sympathetic, kind, clever.
Erik Benson thinks: adaptable, intelligent, modest, relaxed, wise, observant.
George thinks: friendly, giving, happy, helpful, sentimental, witty.

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