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cowardly embarrassed cold	Unknown incompetent intolerant inflexible timid glum stupid insecure irresponsible lethargic withdrawn hostile selfish unhappy unhelpful cynical needy unimaginative inane brash cruel ignorant irrational distant boastful blasé imperceptive chaotic weak vacuous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

Dominant Traits

100% of people agree that Brenda The Great is loud
75% of people think that Brenda The Great is overdramatic

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (50%) aloof (50%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (50%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (25%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational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 (0%) childish (25%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (50%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (100%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (25%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (75%) dull (0%) predictable (50%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (4 people)

bernie thinks: violent, impatient, loud, overdramatic, vulgar.
joan thinks: predictable, aloof, simple, childish, loud.
joan thinks: overdramatic, loud, simple, predictable, aloof.
mag! thinks: loud, insensitive, impatient, violent, overdramatic.

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> impatient, loud, insensitive</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, aloof, simple, vulgar, childish, overdramatic, predictable</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, embarrassed, cold</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, glum, stupid, insecure, irresponsible, lethargic, withdrawn, hostile, selfish, unhappy, unhelpful, cynical, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, chaotic, weak, vacuous, panicky, unethical, self-satisfied, passive, smug, rash, dispassionate, dull, callous, inattentive, unreliable, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people agree that Brenda The Great is loud 75% of people think that Brenda The Great is overdramatic <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (50%) aloof (50%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (50%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (25%) lethargic (0%) 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 (0%) childish (25%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (50%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (100%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (25%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (75%) dull (0%) predictable (50%) 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 30.7.2026, using data from 4 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=Brenda The Great">view Brenda The Great's full data</a>. </div>

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