YZH'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 YZH's.

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

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that YZH is independent
100% of people think that YZH is intelligent
66% of people think that YZH is organised
66% of people agree that YZH is patient
66% of people think that YZH is trustworthy

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (33%) cheerful (33%) clever (33%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (33%) idealistic (0%) independent (66%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (100%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (66%) patient (66%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (33%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (66%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (0%)

Description Breakdown (3 people)

qiulin thinks: trustworthy, intelligent, helpful, independent, caring.
wt thinks: cheerful, patient, trustworthy, sensible, intelligent, organised.
Qiu Ling thinks: independent, intelligent, , organised, patient, clever.

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> cheerful, clever, patient</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> caring, helpful, independent, intelligent, organised, sensible, 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> friendly, observant, sentimental</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, calm, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, giving, happy, idealistic, ingenious, introverted, kind, knowledgeable, logical, loving, mature, modest, nervous, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, shy, silly, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, warm, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people think that YZH is independent 100% of people think that YZH is intelligent 66% of people think that YZH is organised 66% of people agree that YZH is patient 66% of people think that YZH is trustworthy <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (33%) cheerful (33%) clever (33%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (33%) idealistic (0%) independent (66%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (100%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (66%) patient (66%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (33%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (66%) 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 27.8.2026, using data from 3 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/johari?view=YZH">view YZH'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.