Matau'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 Matau's.

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

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that Matau is kind

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (16%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (16%) caring (33%) cheerful (50%) clever (16%) complex (16%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (16%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (50%) giving (0%) happy (16%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (16%) intelligent (16%) introverted (0%) kind (66%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (16%) nervous (0%) observant (50%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (16%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (33%) searching (0%) self-assertive (16%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (33%) silly (33%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (16%) witty (0%)

Description Breakdown (6 people)

C thinks: quiet, observant, complex, happy, wise.
Colon Leftbracket thinks: silly, friendly, accepting, kind, responsive, observant.
Swordfishtrombone thinks: responsive, self-assertive, observant, ingenious, modest.
NIKITRISH thinks: silly, calm, cheerful, dignified, kind.
PinkieTy thinks: kind, friendly, cheerful, caring, shy, intelligent.
PinkieTy thinks: shy, friendly, caring, cheerful, clever, kind.

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> complex, intelligent, 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> accepting, calm, caring, cheerful, clever, dignified, friendly, happy, ingenious, kind, modest, observant, quiet, responsive, self-assertive, shy, wise</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> independent, introverted, knowledgeable</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, bold, brave, confident, dependable, energetic, extroverted, giving, helpful, idealistic, logical, loving, mature, nervous, organised, patient, powerful, proud, reflective, relaxed, religious, searching, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, trustworthy, warm, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people think that Matau is kind <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (16%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (16%) caring (33%) cheerful (50%) clever (16%) complex (16%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (16%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (50%) giving (0%) happy (16%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (16%) intelligent (16%) introverted (0%) kind (66%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (16%) nervous (0%) observant (50%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (16%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (33%) searching (0%) self-assertive (16%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (33%) silly (33%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (16%) 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 12.5.2025, using data from 6 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/johari?view=Matau">view Matau'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.