merkelet'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 merkelet's.

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

Dominant Traits

75% of people think that merkelet is extroverted
75% of people agree that merkelet is friendly

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Jenny thinks: complex, spontaneous, loving, intelligent, extroverted, searching.
Jen Noel thinks: caring, extroverted, friendly, loving, silly.
Adam thinks: friendly, trustworthy, accepting, caring, adaptable, intelligent.
Andrea thinks: friendly, cheerful, self-assertive, warm, extroverted.

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> complex, friendly, intelligent, searching, 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, adaptable, caring, cheerful, extroverted, loving, self-assertive, silly, spontaneous, 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> dependable</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, bold, brave, calm, clever, confident, dignified, energetic, giving, happy, helpful, idealistic, independent, ingenious, introverted, kind, knowledgeable, logical, mature, modest, nervous, observant, organised, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, shy, sympathetic, tense, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>75% of people think that merkelet is extroverted 75% of people agree that merkelet is friendly <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (25%) adaptable (25%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (50%) cheerful (25%) clever (0%) complex (25%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (75%) friendly (75%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (50%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (50%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (25%) self-assertive (25%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (25%) spontaneous (25%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (25%) warm (25%) wise (0%) witty (0%) <div style="border:1px solid #000; padding:8px; text-align:center;background:#eee"> Created by the <a href="http://kevan.org/johari">Interactive Johari Window</a> on 6.7.2025, using data from 4 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/johari?view=merkelet">view merkelet'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.