Ashley Whittle'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 Ashley Whittle's.

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Known to Others	Arena aloof selfish cynical needy	Blind Spot violent vulgar withdrawn hostile inane cruel irrational distant childish chaotic insensitive self-satisfied passive predictable unreliable humourless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

All Percentages

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(16%) aloof (16%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (50%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (16%) hostile (50%) selfish (16%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (50%) needy (33%) unimaginative (0%) inane (16%) brash (0%) cruel (50%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (6 people)

JESEE[iloveyou] thinks: inane, cruel, cynical, vulgar, childish, violent.
Tim thinks: hostile, vulgar, needy, insensitive, humourless, aloof.
anthony thinks: selfish, needy, irrational, unreliable, passive.
Danielle thinks: hostile, unreliable, distant, cruel, self-satisfied.
justin thinks: cruel, cynical, vulgar, insensitive, predictable.
Liz thinks: chaotic, self-satisfied, cynical, withdrawn, hostile.

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 violent, vulgar, withdrawn, hostile, inane, cruel, irrational, distant, childish, chaotic, insensitive, self-satisfied, passive, predictable, unreliable, humourless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