dearlace'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 dearlace's.

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

Dominant Traits

75% of people think that dearlace is caring

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (4 people)

ErryK thinks: accepting, caring, cheerful, happy, helpful, friendly.
Laura U thinks: caring, dependable, helpful, kind, trustworthy, knowledgeable.
justin much? thinks: introverted, kind, bold, idealistic, intelligent, caring.
anonymous thinks: silly, self-conscious, mature, introverted, intelligent, religious.

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