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needy weak passive	Unknown incompetent intolerant inflexible cowardly violent aloof glum stupid irresponsible vulgar withdrawn selfish unhappy unhelpful cynical unimaginative inane brash cruel ignorant irrational distant childish blasé imperceptive impatient embarrassed vacuous panicky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

Dominant Traits

100% of people agree that Buzz Gringo is timid
100% of people think that Buzz Gringo is loud

All Percentages

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violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (50%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (50%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (50%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (2 people)

Marina thinks: timid, foolish, loud, lethargic, boastful.
waikiki thinks: loud, hostile, timid, simple, chaotic.

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> timid</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> simple, lethargic, hostile, boastful, chaotic, loud, 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> insecure, needy, weak, passive</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, cowardly, violent, aloof, glum, stupid, irresponsible, vulgar, withdrawn, selfish, unhappy, unhelpful, cynical, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, childish, blasé, imperceptive, impatient, embarrassed, vacuous, panicky, unethical, insensitive, self-satisfied, smug, rash, dispassionate, overdramatic, dull, predictable, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people agree that Buzz Gringo is timid 100% of people think that Buzz Gringo is loud <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (100%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (50%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (50%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (50%) 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 (0%) boastful (50%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (50%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (100%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (50%) humourless (0%) <div style="border:1px solid #000; padding:8px; text-align:center;background:#eee"> Created by the <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 19.4.2025, using data from 2 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari?view=Buzz Gringo">view Buzz Gringo'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.