Pynsey'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 Pynsey's.

Known
to
Self
Not
Known
to
Self
Known to Others

Arena

caring
dependable
intelligent
kind
religious
trustworthy

Blind Spot

able
calm
cheerful
dignified
friendly
giving
happy
helpful
loving
organised
silly
spontaneous
sympathetic
warm
Not Known to Others

Façade

Unknown

accepting adaptable bold brave clever complex confident energetic extroverted idealistic independent ingenious introverted knowledgeable logical mature modest nervous observant patient powerful proud quiet reflective relaxed responsive searching self-assertive self-conscious sensible sentimental shy tense wise witty

(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.)

Dominant Traits

60% of people agree that Pynsey is intelligent

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

Katie Sessler thinks: trustworthy, intelligent, friendly, helpful, able.
Aj thinks: calm, giving, happy, dignified, helpful, organised.
yomamma thinks: dependable, giving, intelligent, loving, organised, religious.
KJT thinks: calm, friendly, intelligent, warm, kind.
Pigger thinks: caring, cheerful, religious, silly, sympathetic, spontaneous.

You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-

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.