Northman'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 Northman's.

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

Dominant Traits

75% of people agree that Northman is self-assertive

All Percentages

able (25%) accepting (0%) adaptable (50%) bold (50%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (50%) confident (50%) dependable (0%) dignified (25%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (25%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (25%) organised (0%) patient (25%) powerful (25%) proud (50%) quiet (0%) reflective (25%) relaxed (25%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (75%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (25%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (0%)

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Adrian Shephard thinks: proud, complex, dignified, confident, self-assertive.
Ava thinks: adaptable, observant, silly, patient, relaxed.
Pam thinks: self-assertive, bold, powerful, complex, proud, adaptable.
Jemma thinks: able, intelligent, self-assertive, reflective, bold, confident.

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> bold, powerful, self-assertive</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, adaptable, complex, confident, dignified, intelligent, observant, patient, proud, reflective, relaxed, silly</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> clever, giving, independent</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, brave, calm, caring, cheerful, dependable, energetic, extroverted, friendly, happy, helpful, idealistic, ingenious, introverted, kind, knowledgeable, logical, loving, mature, modest, nervous, organised, quiet, religious, responsive, searching, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, shy, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, trustworthy, warm, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>75% of people agree that Northman is self-assertive <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (25%) accepting (0%) adaptable (50%) bold (50%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (50%) confident (50%) dependable (0%) dignified (25%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (25%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (25%) organised (0%) patient (25%) powerful (25%) proud (50%) quiet (0%) reflective (25%) relaxed (25%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (75%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (25%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (0%) <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 21.4.2026, 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=Northman">view Northman'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.