blackpenman'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 blackpenman's.

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

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that blackpenman is mature
66% of people think that blackpenman is witty

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (3 people)

Austin thinks: bold, energetic, witty, powerful, loving.
anonymous thinks: witty, intelligent, sensible, kind, mature, clever.
no thinks: responsive, introverted, mature, knowledgeable, logical.

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> clever, intelligent, knowledgeable, logical</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> bold, energetic, introverted, kind, loving, mature, powerful, responsive, sensible, 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> idealistic, religious</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, brave, calm, caring, cheerful, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, extroverted, friendly, giving, happy, helpful, independent, ingenious, modest, nervous, observant, organised, patient, proud, quiet, reflective, relaxed, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, sentimental, shy, silly, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, trustworthy, warm, wise</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people think that blackpenman is mature 66% of people think that blackpenman is witty <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (33%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (0%) clever (33%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (33%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (33%) introverted (33%) kind (33%) knowledgeable (33%) logical (33%) loving (33%) mature (66%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (33%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (33%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (33%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (66%) <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 9.6.2026, 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=blackpenman">view blackpenman'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.