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Others	Façade glum simple inane self-satisfied	Unknown incompetent cowardly aloof stupid irresponsible vulgar lethargic withdrawn hostile unhelpful cynical needy unimaginative brash cruel distant blasé imperceptive weak embarrassed vacuous unethical insensitive passive smug rash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

Dominant Traits

60% of people think that yiyun is violent
60% of people think that yiyun is overdramatic

All Percentages

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violent (60%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (20%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (20%) unhappy (40%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (20%)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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

tyl thinks: , timid, overdramatic, unhappy, foolish.
TYL thinks: foolish, impatient, loud, overdramatic, unhappy.
Alicia thinks: boastful, childish, ignorant, violent, overdramatic, inflexible.
fei_zhu thinks: violent, chaotic, irrational, impatient, panicky.
haha thinks: intolerant, violent, insecure, selfish, irrational, childish.

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, cowardly, aloof, stupid, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, withdrawn, hostile, unhelpful, cynical, needy, unimaginative, brash, cruel, distant, blasé, imperceptive, weak, embarrassed, vacuous, unethical, insensitive, passive,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

The Nohari Window was tinted by Kevan on the 12th of February 2006.
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