Shoolin'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 Shoolin's.

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

Dominant Traits

75% of people think that Shoolin is bold

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (4 people)

peiqi thinks: knowledgeable, confident, powerful, silly, clever.
Anonymous thinks: extroverted, self-conscious, bold, adaptable, tense.
J thinks: spontaneous, self-conscious, extroverted, self-assertive, bold.
The Pea thinks: bold, proud, sentimental, sympathetic, knowledgeable, trustworthy.

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> extroverted, proud, silly, spontaneous</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> adaptable, bold, clever, confident, knowledgeable, powerful, self-assertive, self-conscious, sentimental, sympathetic, tense, trustworthy</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> idealistic, nervous</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, brave, calm, caring, cheerful, complex, dependable, dignified, energetic, friendly, giving, happy, helpful, independent, ingenious, intelligent, introverted, kind, logical, loving, mature, modest, observant, organised, patient, quiet, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, sensible, shy, warm, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>75% of people think that Shoolin is bold <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (25%) bold (75%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (0%) clever (25%) complex (0%) confident (25%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (50%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (50%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (25%) proud (25%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (25%) self-conscious (50%) sensible (0%) sentimental (25%) shy (0%) silly (25%) spontaneous (25%) sympathetic (25%) tense (25%) trustworthy (25%) 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 17.6.2026, 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=Shoolin">view Shoolin'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.