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Façade cowardly irresponsible selfish loud	Unknown incompetent intolerant timid aloof glum stupid simple lethargic withdrawn hostile unhappy unhelpful needy unimaginative inane brash cruel irrational distant boastful blasé imperceptive chaotic weak vacuous panicky unethical smug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

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that Amos Lu is impatient

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (33%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (33%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (33%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (33%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (33%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (33%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (33%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (66%) weak (0%) embarrassed (33%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (33%) self-satisfied (33%) passive (33%) smug (0%) rash (33%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (33%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (3 people)

corey thinks: impatient, inflexible, overdramatic, insecure, embarrassed.
Stinky thinks: violent, vulgar, ignorant, insensitive, self-satisfied.
Luke thinks: impatient, rash, cynical, passive, 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> childish, 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> inflexible, violent, insecure, vulgar, cynical, ignorant, impatient, embarrassed, insensitive, self-satisfied, passive, rash</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, irresponsible, selfish, loud</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, timid, aloof, glum, stupid, simple, lethargic, withdrawn, hostile, unhappy, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, irrational, distant, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, chaotic, weak, vacuous, panicky, unethical, smug, dispassionate, dull, predictable, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people think that Amos Lu is impatient <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (33%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (33%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (33%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (33%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (33%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (33%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (33%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (66%) weak (0%) embarrassed (33%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (33%) self-satisfied (33%) passive (33%) smug (0%) rash (33%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (33%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) 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 10.6.2026, using data from 3 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=Amos Lu">view Amos Lu'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.