thewestdoor'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 thewestdoor's.

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

Dominant Traits

60% of people agree that thewestdoor is friendly
60% of people agree that thewestdoor is patient

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

xyu thinks: happy, caring, trustworthy, friendly, wise, patient.
miffy xiaoqiao carrot thinks: intelligent, friendly, helpful, quiet, patient, kind.
willy thinks: self-assertive, confident, friendly, helpful, loving.
horse thinks: knowledgeable, intelligent, nervous, patient, quiet, shy.
gct thinks: silly, powerful, happy, shy, relaxed.

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, patient</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> caring, confident, happy, helpful, intelligent, kind, knowledgeable, loving, nervous, powerful, quiet, relaxed, self-assertive, shy, silly, trustworthy, 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> accepting, adaptable, calm</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, cheerful, clever, complex, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, giving, idealistic, independent, ingenious, introverted, logical, mature, modest, observant, organised, proud, reflective, religious, responsive, searching, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, warm, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people agree that thewestdoor is friendly 60% of people agree that thewestdoor is patient <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (20%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (20%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (60%) giving (0%) happy (40%) helpful (40%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (40%) introverted (0%) kind (20%) knowledgeable (20%) logical (0%) loving (20%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (20%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (60%) powerful (20%) proud (0%) quiet (40%) reflective (0%) relaxed (20%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (20%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (40%) silly (20%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (20%) warm (0%) 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 7.10.2026, 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=thewestdoor">view thewestdoor'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.