rayney'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 rayney's.

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Known to Others	Arena needy irrational overdramatic	Blind Spot intolerant violent aloof glum simple insecure lethargic withdrawn unhappy cruel childish chaotic impatient embarrassed insensitive rash inattentive foolish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

All Percentages

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(50%) aloof (16%) glum (16%) stupid (0%) simple (16%) insecure (33%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (16%) withdrawn (16%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (16%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (16%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (33%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (6 people)

Muni thinks: insecure, irrational, overdramatic, withdrawn, glum.
gracey ): thinks: lethargic, irrational, inattentive, chaotic, impatient.
yiiiiiiiii (: thinks: intolerant, aloof, irrational, unhappy, insensitive.
hah! thinks: foolish, childish, rash, cruel, violent.
haha! thinks: violent, overdramatic, childish, simple, intolerant.
hahahah! thinks: needy, violent, insecure, cruel, embarrassed.

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> needy, irrational, overdramatic</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> intolerant, violent, aloof, glum, simple, insecure, lethargic, withdrawn, unhappy, cruel, childish, chaotic, impatient, embarrassed, insensitive, rash, inattentive, 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> selfish, cynical</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, inflexible, timid, cowardly, stupid, irresponsible, vulgar, hostile, unhelpful, unimaginative, inane, brash, ignorant, distant, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, weak, loud, vacuous, panicky, unethical, self-satisfied, passive, smug, dispassionate, dull, predictable, callous, unreliable, cold, humourless</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (33%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (50%) aloof (16%) glum (16%) stupid (0%) simple (16%) insecure (33%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (16%) withdrawn (16%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (16%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (16%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (33%) ignorant (0%) irrational (50%) distant (0%) childish (33%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (16%) impatient (16%) weak (0%) embarrassed (16%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (16%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (16%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (33%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (16%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (16%) 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 17.8.2025, using data from 6 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari?view=rayney">view rayney'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.