Nick Yuan'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 Nick Yuan's.

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

Dominant Traits

60% of people think that Nick Yuan is patient

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

purple thinks: calm, caring, introverted, patient, warm, sensible.
Zhang Fabao thinks: ingenious, patient, sympathetic, sentimental, extroverted.
Wang Qing thinks: friendly, sentimental, trustworthy, happy, kind.
Eric Lan thinks: kind, quiet, sensible, patient, modest.
hedy thinks: cheerful, giving, trustworthy, loving, friendly, helpful.

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> caring, friendly, kind, trustworthy</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, cheerful, extroverted, giving, happy, helpful, ingenious, introverted, loving, modest, patient, quiet, sensible, sentimental, sympathetic, 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> complex, logical</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, accepting, adaptable, bold, brave, clever, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, idealistic, independent, intelligent, knowledgeable, mature, nervous, observant, organised, powerful, proud, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, shy, silly, spontaneous, tense, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people think that Nick Yuan is patient <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (20%) caring (20%) cheerful (20%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (20%) friendly (40%) giving (20%) happy (20%) helpful (20%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (20%) intelligent (0%) introverted (20%) kind (40%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (20%) mature (0%) modest (20%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (60%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (20%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (40%) sentimental (40%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (20%) tense (0%) trustworthy (40%) warm (20%) wise (0%) 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 20.6.2025, using data from 5 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/johari?view=Nick Yuan">view Nick Yuan's full data</a>. </div>

The Interactive Johari Window was installed and grouted by Kevan, on the 11th of February 2006.
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If you can take criticism, there's also a darker Nohari Window.