benscarbeau'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 benscarbeau's.

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

Dominant Traits

75% of people think that benscarbeau is intelligent
75% of people think that benscarbeau is religious

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Ian M thinks: calm, knowledgeable, religious, intelligent, shy, idealistic.
Steph thinks: religious, kind, intelligent, knowledgeable, modest.
Jason Guy thinks: caring, introverted, able, trustworthy, friendly, searching.
bowen1 thinks: intelligent, helpful, witty, religious, friendly, 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> idealistic, introverted, searching</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, calm, caring, friendly, helpful, intelligent, kind, knowledgeable, modest, religious, shy, trustworthy, witty</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> observant, relaxed, sympathetic</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, adaptable, bold, brave, cheerful, clever, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, giving, happy, independent, ingenious, logical, loving, mature, nervous, organised, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, responsive, self-assertive, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, silly, spontaneous, tense, warm, wise</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>75% of people think that benscarbeau is intelligent 75% of people think that benscarbeau is religious <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (25%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (25%) caring (25%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (50%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (25%) idealistic (25%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (75%) introverted (25%) kind (25%) knowledgeable (50%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (25%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (75%) responsive (0%) searching (25%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (25%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (50%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (25%) <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 7.6.2026, 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=benscarbeau">view benscarbeau'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.