podeam'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 podeam's.

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

Dominant Traits

60% of people agree that podeam is complex

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

eunice thinks: idealistic, independent, helpful, proud, able.
Brennan thinks: complex, intelligent, warm, spontaneous, wise.
Sharon Rose thinks: independent, knowledgeable, organised, complex, ingenious, friendly.
pinkpau thinks: complex, knowledgeable, modest, observant, reflective, warm.
John thinks: nervous, quiet, loving, sympathetic, self-conscious.

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, idealistic, self-conscious</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, friendly, helpful, independent, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, loving, modest, nervous, observant, organised, proud, quiet, reflective, spontaneous, sympathetic, warm, wise</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> adaptable, introverted, mature</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, bold, brave, calm, caring, cheerful, clever, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, giving, happy, kind, logical, patient, powerful, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, sensible, sentimental, shy, silly, tense, trustworthy, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people agree that podeam is complex <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (20%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (60%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (20%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (20%) idealistic (20%) independent (40%) ingenious (20%) intelligent (20%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (40%) logical (0%) loving (20%) mature (0%) modest (20%) nervous (20%) observant (20%) organised (20%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (20%) quiet (20%) reflective (20%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (20%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (20%) sympathetic (20%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (40%) wise (20%) 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 9.6.2026, 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=podeam">view podeam'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.