maerfee'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 maerfee's.

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

Dominant Traits

100% of people think that maerfee is friendly
60% of people think that maerfee is intelligent

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (20%) caring (20%) cheerful (0%) clever (20%) complex (40%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (100%) giving (0%) happy (20%) helpful (20%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (60%) introverted (20%) kind (40%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (20%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (20%) reflective (20%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (20%) self-assertive (20%) self-conscious (20%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (20%) silly (20%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (20%) wise (0%) witty (0%)

Description Breakdown (5 people)

irascignavojo thinks: complex, introverted, searching, friendly, warm.
GwenW thinks: friendly, happy, helpful, kind, silly.
Ellifaey thinks: calm, caring, friendly, intelligent, kind, shy.
lenew thinks: observant, friendly, intelligent, quiet, reflective.
Caprimond thinks: clever, friendly, intelligent, self-assertive, self-conscious, complex.

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> calm, caring, complex, helpful</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> clever, friendly, happy, intelligent, introverted, kind, observant, quiet, reflective, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, shy, silly, 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> loving, nervous</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, cheerful, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, giving, idealistic, independent, ingenious, knowledgeable, logical, mature, modest, organised, patient, powerful, proud, relaxed, religious, responsive, sensible, sentimental, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, trustworthy, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people think that maerfee is friendly 60% of people think that maerfee is intelligent <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (20%) caring (20%) cheerful (0%) clever (20%) complex (40%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (100%) giving (0%) happy (20%) helpful (20%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (60%) introverted (20%) kind (40%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (20%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (20%) reflective (20%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (20%) self-assertive (20%) self-conscious (20%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (20%) silly (20%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (20%) 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 10.6.2026, using data from 5 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/johari?view=maerfee">view maerfee'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.