hyperhyphen'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 hyperhyphen's.

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Façade inane unreliable	Unknown incompetent intolerant inflexible cowardly aloof stupid simple irresponsible vulgar withdrawn hostile selfish unhappy unhelpful needy unimaginative brash ignorant boastful blasé weak vacuous unethical insensitive smug rash dispassionate dull callous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

Dominant Traits

60% of people agree that hyperhyphen is insecure

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (40%) cowardly (0%) violent (20%) aloof (0%) glum (20%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (60%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (20%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (20%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (20%) ignorant (0%) irrational (20%) distant (20%) childish (40%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (20%) chaotic (20%) impatient (20%) weak (0%) embarrassed (20%) loud (20%) vacuous (0%) panicky (20%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (20%) passive (40%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (40%) dull (0%) predictable (20%) callous (0%) inattentive (20%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (5 people)

aslan78 thinks: imperceptive, panicky, inattentive, overdramatic, predictable.
Mytherin thinks: insecure, embarrassed, timid, distant, passive.
genghiscon thinks: timid, insecure, self-satisfied, childish, loud.
Gomer thinks: violent, lethargic, cynical, cruel, chaotic, impatient.
Dan thinks: childish, irrational, glum, insecure, overdramatic, passive.

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, imperceptive, predictable</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, lethargic, cynical, cruel, irrational, distant, childish, chaotic, impatient, embarrassed, loud, panicky, self-satisfied, passive, overdramatic, inattentive</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> inane, 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, cowardly, aloof, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, withdrawn, hostile, selfish, unhappy, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, brash, ignorant, boastful, blasé, weak, vacuous, unethical, insensitive, smug, rash, dispassionate, dull, callous, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people agree that hyperhyphen is insecure <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (40%) cowardly (0%) violent (20%) aloof (0%) glum (20%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (60%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (20%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (20%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (20%) ignorant (0%) irrational (20%) distant (20%) childish (40%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (20%) chaotic (20%) impatient (20%) weak (0%) embarrassed (20%) loud (20%) vacuous (0%) panicky (20%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (20%) passive (40%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (40%) dull (0%) predictable (20%) callous (0%) inattentive (20%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) 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 17.6.2026, using data from 5 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=hyperhyphen">view hyperhyphen'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.