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Known to Others	Façade cowardly boastful weak unreliable	Unknown incompetent intolerant inflexible aloof stupid simple withdrawn unhelpful cynical needy inane brash ignorant irrational blasé imperceptive impatient embarrassed vacuous unethical insensitive self-satisfied passive smug rash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

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (50%) cowardly (0%) violent (50%) aloof (0%) glum (25%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (25%) irresponsible (25%) vulgar (25%) lethargic (25%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (25%) selfish (25%) unhappy (25%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (25%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (25%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (25%) childish (25%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (25%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (25%) vacuous (0%) panicky (25%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (25%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (25%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Bno thinks: timid, distant, loud, panicky, violent.
Alison thinks: cruel, overdramatic, hostile, violent, childish.
Jasujo thinks: insecure, timid, unhappy, chaotic, foolish.
emmity emma thinks: glum, vulgar, lethargic, irresponsible, selfish, unimaginative.

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> insecure, selfish</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> timid, violent, glum, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, hostile, unhappy, unimaginative, cruel, distant, childish, chaotic, loud, panicky, overdramatic, foolish</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> cowardly, boastful, weak, unreliable</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, aloof, stupid, simple, withdrawn, unhelpful, cynical, needy, inane, brash, ignorant, irrational, blasé, imperceptive, impatient, embarrassed, vacuous, unethical, insensitive, self-satisfied, passive, smug, rash, dispassionate, dull, predictable, callous, inattentive, cold, humourless</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (50%) cowardly (0%) violent (50%) aloof (0%) glum (25%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (25%) irresponsible (25%) vulgar (25%) lethargic (25%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (25%) selfish (25%) unhappy (25%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (25%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (25%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (25%) childish (25%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (25%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (25%) vacuous (0%) panicky (25%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (25%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (25%) humourless (0%) <div style="border:1px solid #000; padding:8px; text-align:center;background:#eee"> Created by the <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 12.7.2025, using data from 4 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari?view=emmity emma">view emmity emma'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.