seltsam'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 seltsam's.

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

Dominant Traits

60% of people agree that seltsam is intelligent

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

sorchasilver thinks: giving, intelligent, brave, bold, friendly.
moonix thinks: witty, brave, bold, clever, spontaneous, energetic.
saskia thinks: trustworthy, kind, sympathetic, organised, cheerful.
anonymous thinks: independent, adaptable, energetic, intelligent, kind.
tine thinks: friendly, intelligent, nervous, sensible, sympathetic, trustworthy.

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> friendly, intelligent, spontaneous</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> adaptable, bold, brave, cheerful, clever, energetic, giving, independent, kind, nervous, organised, sensible, sympathetic, trustworthy, 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> complex, searching, self-conscious</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, calm, caring, confident, dependable, dignified, extroverted, happy, helpful, idealistic, ingenious, introverted, knowledgeable, logical, loving, mature, modest, observant, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, self-assertive, sentimental, shy, silly, tense, warm, wise</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people agree that seltsam is intelligent <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (20%) bold (40%) brave (40%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (20%) clever (20%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (40%) extroverted (0%) friendly (40%) giving (20%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (20%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (60%) introverted (0%) kind (40%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (20%) observant (0%) organised (20%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (20%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (20%) sympathetic (40%) tense (0%) trustworthy (40%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (20%) <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 13.7.2025, using data from 5 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/johari?view=seltsam">view seltsam'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.