dopeychiu'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.

You can get your own Nohari Window, or contribute to dopeychiu's.

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Known to Others	Façade loud overdramatic	Unknown incompetent timid cowardly aloof stupid simple irresponsible vulgar withdrawn selfish unhelpful needy unimaginative inane cruel ignorant irrational distant childish boastful blasé imperceptive chaotic weak embarrassed vacuous unethical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

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (50%) inflexible (33%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (33%) aloof (0%) glum (16%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (33%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (33%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (16%) selfish (0%) unhappy (33%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (50%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (16%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (33%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (16%) unethical (0%) insensitive (16%) self-satisfied (16%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (33%) overdramatic (0%) dull (16%) predictable (33%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (16%)

Description Breakdown (6 people)

Husky thinks: dull, predictable, humourless, lethargic, dispassionate.
rach thinks: cynical, intolerant, unhappy, dispassionate, inflexible.
Cao thinks: insensitive, violent, predictable, lethargic, panicky.
ahleong thinks: intolerant, inflexible, violent, cynical, impatient.
hanni thinks: insecure, unhappy, glum, hostile, brash.
xiangsao thinks: intolerant, impatient, cynical, insecure, self-satisfied.

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> intolerant, insecure, impatient, dispassionate</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> inflexible, violent, glum, lethargic, hostile, unhappy, cynical, brash, panicky, insensitive, self-satisfied, dull, predictable, humourless</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> loud, overdramatic</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, timid, cowardly, aloof, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, withdrawn, selfish, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, childish, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, chaotic, weak, embarrassed, vacuous, unethical, passive, smug, rash, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (50%) inflexible (33%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (33%) aloof (0%) glum (16%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (33%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (33%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (16%) selfish (0%) unhappy (33%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (50%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (16%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (33%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (16%) unethical (0%) insensitive (16%) self-satisfied (16%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (33%) overdramatic (0%) dull (16%) predictable (33%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (16%) <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 6 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=dopeychiu">view dopeychiu'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.