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Known to Others	Arena withdrawn selfish cynical	Blind Spot inflexible timid aloof insecure lethargic distant self-satisfied smug dispassionate callous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

Dominant Traits

100% of people agree that Broddie is withdrawn
100% of people agree that Broddie is cynical

All Percentages

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(0%) aloof (25%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (50%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (25%) withdrawn (100%) hostile (0%) selfish (25%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (100%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Dawn thinks: cynical, lethargic, inflexible, selfish, withdrawn, insecure.
dissy thinks: cynical, withdrawn, distant, aloof, callous.
EB thinks: withdrawn, cynical, inflexible, smug, dispassionate.
smgr thinks: cynical, callous, insecure, withdrawn, self-satisfied, timid.

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> withdrawn, selfish, cynical</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, timid, aloof, insecure, lethargic, distant, self-satisfied, smug, dispassionate, callous</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> hostile, chaotic, impatient</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, cowardly, violent, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, unhappy, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, childish, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, weak, embarrassed, loud, vacuous, panicky, unethical, insensitive, passive, rash, overdramatic, dull, predictable, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people agree that Broddie is withdrawn 100% of people agree that Broddie is cynical <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (50%) timid (25%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (25%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (50%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (25%) withdrawn (100%) hostile (0%) selfish (25%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (100%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (25%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (25%) passive (0%) smug (25%) rash (0%) dispassionate (25%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (50%) 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 9.6.2026, 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=Broddie">view Broddie'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.