Joshua Chiu's Nohari Window

The Nohari Window is a challenging inversion of the Johari Window, using antonyms of the original words. By describing your failings from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of perceived and unrecognised weaknesses can be explored.

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	Known to Self	Not Known to Self
Known to Others	Arena unhappy needy irrational foolish	Blind Spot glum hostile cynical blasé weak loud smug cold
Not Known to Others	Façade unimaginative self-satisfied	Unknown incompetent intolerant inflexible timid cowardly violent aloof stupid simple insecure irresponsible vulgar lethargic withdrawn selfish unhelpful inane brash cruel ignorant distant childish boastful imperceptive chaotic impatient embarrassed vacuous panicky unethical insensitive passive rash dispassionate overdramatic dull predictable callous inattentive unreliable humourless
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.)

Dominant Traits

66% of people agree that Joshua Chiu is unhappy
66% of people think that Joshua Chiu is cynical
66% of people think that Joshua Chiu is blasé

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (33%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (33%) selfish (0%) unhappy (66%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (66%) needy (33%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (33%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (66%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (33%) embarrassed (0%) loud (33%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (33%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (33%) foolish (33%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (3 people)

KL thinks: unhappy, irrational, needy, cynical, foolish.
Peter thinks: glum, hostile, cynical, blasé, unhappy.
Jenny thinks: smug, cold, loud, blasé, weak.

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> unhappy, needy, irrational, foolish</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> glum, hostile, cynical, blasé, weak, loud, smug, cold</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> unimaginative, self-satisfied</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> incompetent, intolerant, inflexible, timid, cowardly, violent, aloof, stupid, simple, insecure, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, withdrawn, selfish, unhelpful, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, distant, childish, boastful, imperceptive, chaotic, impatient, embarrassed, vacuous, panicky, unethical, insensitive, passive, rash, dispassionate, overdramatic, dull, predictable, callous, inattentive, unreliable, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people agree that Joshua Chiu is unhappy 66% of people think that Joshua Chiu is cynical 66% of people think that Joshua Chiu is blasé <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (33%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (33%) selfish (0%) unhappy (66%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (66%) needy (33%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (33%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (66%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (33%) embarrassed (0%) loud (33%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (33%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (33%) foolish (33%) humourless (0%) <div style="border:1px solid #000; padding:8px; text-align:center;background:#eee"> Created by the <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 9.6.2026, using data from 3 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=Joshua Chiu">view Joshua Chiu's full data</a>. </div>

The Nohari Window was tinted by Kevan on the 12th of February 2006.
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For the original positive spin, look through the Johari Window.