YANCAI'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 YANCAI's.

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

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (6 people)

Benson thinks: cheerful, friendly, happy, nervous, silly, warm.
Lan Jiao Kia thinks: energetic, silly, logical, responsive, patient, extroverted.
belly123 thinks: cheerful, loving, observant, relaxed, tense, proud.
zhikang thinks: helpful, friendly, shy, brave, accepting, modest.
xiangxin thinks: energetic, cheerful, idealistic, spontaneous, mature, happy.
Jack thinks: energetic, happy, friendly, searching, nervous, bold.

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> friendly, observant</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, bold, brave, cheerful, energetic, extroverted, happy, helpful, idealistic, logical, loving, mature, modest, nervous, patient, proud, relaxed, responsive, searching, shy, silly, spontaneous, tense, 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> caring, knowledgeable, sentimental, trustworthy</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, calm, clever, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, giving, independent, ingenious, intelligent, introverted, kind, organised, powerful, quiet, reflective, religious, self-assertive, self-conscious, sensible, sympathetic, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (16%) adaptable (0%) bold (16%) brave (16%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (50%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (50%) extroverted (16%) friendly (50%) giving (0%) happy (50%) helpful (16%) idealistic (16%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (16%) loving (16%) mature (16%) modest (16%) nervous (33%) observant (16%) organised (0%) patient (16%) powerful (0%) proud (16%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (16%) religious (0%) responsive (16%) searching (16%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (16%) silly (33%) spontaneous (16%) sympathetic (0%) tense (16%) trustworthy (0%) warm (16%) 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 5.7.2025, 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=YANCAI">view YANCAI'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.