Elsy'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 Elsy's.

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

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Sunna Björk thinks: clever, independent, brave, witty, trustworthy.
núrgiS thinks: organised, idealistic, introverted, ingenious, loving, observant.
kk thinks: sympathetic, loving, accepting, warm, brave.
pall thinks: happy, warm, sensible, extroverted, shy, clever.

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> independent</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, brave, clever, extroverted, happy, idealistic, ingenious, introverted, loving, observant, organised, sensible, shy, sympathetic, trustworthy, warm, 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> bold, complex, friendly, searching, silly</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, adaptable, calm, caring, cheerful, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, giving, helpful, intelligent, kind, knowledgeable, logical, mature, modest, nervous, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, self-assertive, self-conscious, sentimental, spontaneous, tense, wise</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (25%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (50%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (0%) clever (50%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (25%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (25%) helpful (0%) idealistic (25%) independent (25%) ingenious (25%) intelligent (0%) introverted (25%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (50%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (25%) organised (25%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (25%) sentimental (0%) shy (25%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (25%) tense (0%) trustworthy (25%) warm (50%) wise (0%) witty (25%) <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 10.6.2026, using data from 4 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/johari?view=Elsy">view Elsy'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.