Aust'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 Aust's.

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to Others	Façade ignorant boastful loud rash	Unknown inflexible timid cowardly violent aloof glum stupid irresponsible withdrawn hostile selfish unhappy unhelpful cynical needy unimaginative inane brash cruel irrational blasé chaotic impatient weak vacuous panicky unethical smug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

All Percentages

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(0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (33%) insecure (33%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (33%) lethargic (33%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational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

Description Breakdown (3 people)

Jack thinks: childish, overdramatic, foolish, embarrassed, vulgar.
hikari so hard to pick 1 thinks: simple, intolerant, self-satisfied, passive, dull.
danie thinks: lethargic, distant, imperceptive, insensitive, incompetent, insecure.

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> vulgar, passive</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> incompetent, intolerant, simple, insecure, lethargic, distant, childish, imperceptive, embarrassed, insensitive, self-satisfied, overdramatic, dull, 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> ignorant, boastful, loud, rash</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> inflexible, timid, cowardly, violent, aloof, glum, stupid, irresponsible, withdrawn, hostile, selfish, unhappy, unhelpful, cynical, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, irrational, blasé, chaotic, impatient, weak, vacuous, panicky, unethical, smug, dispassionate, predictable, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, humourless</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (33%) intolerant (33%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (33%) insecure (33%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (33%) lethargic (33%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (33%) childish (33%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (33%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (33%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (33%) self-satisfied (33%) passive (33%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (33%) dull (33%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (33%) 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=Aust">view Aust'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.