vita'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 vita's.

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

Dominant Traits

100% of people think that vita is caring

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (50%) bold (50%) brave (50%) calm (0%) caring (100%) cheerful (50%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (50%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (50%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (50%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) 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 (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (50%) warm (0%) wise (50%) witty (0%)

Description Breakdown (2 people)

Graham thinks: caring, cheerful, adaptable, wise, trustworthy.
Stephen thinks: intelligent, caring, bold, confident, energetic, brave.

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> adaptable</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> bold, brave, caring, cheerful, confident, energetic, intelligent, 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, independent, proud, relaxed</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, calm, clever, complex, dependable, dignified, extroverted, friendly, giving, happy, helpful, idealistic, ingenious, introverted, kind, knowledgeable, logical, loving, mature, modest, nervous, observant, organised, patient, powerful, quiet, reflective, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, shy, silly, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, warm, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people think that vita is caring <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (50%) bold (50%) brave (50%) calm (0%) caring (100%) cheerful (50%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (50%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (50%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (50%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) 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 (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (50%) warm (0%) wise (50%) 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 2 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/johari?view=vita">view vita'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.