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dispassionate	Unknown incompetent intolerant inflexible violent aloof glum stupid simple irresponsible vulgar lethargic withdrawn hostile unhappy unhelpful cynical unimaginative inane brash cruel ignorant irrational distant childish boastful blasé imperceptive chaotic weak embarrassed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

Dominant Traits

100% of people think that Emily Petrain is timid
100% of people agree that Emily Petrain is insecure
100% of people agree that Emily Petrain is needy
100% of people think that Emily Petrain is passive
100% of people think that Emily Petrain is overdramatic

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (100%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (100%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (100%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) 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 (0%) passive (100%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (100%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (1 people)

Matt thinks: insecure, timid, needy, passive, 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> insecure, 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> timid, passive, overdramatic</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, selfish, impatient, dispassionate</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, violent, aloof, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, withdrawn, hostile, unhappy, unhelpful, cynical, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, childish, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, chaotic, weak, embarrassed, loud, vacuous, panicky, unethical, insensitive, self-satisfied, smug, rash, dull, predictable, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people think that Emily Petrain is timid 100% of people agree that Emily Petrain is insecure 100% of people agree that Emily Petrain is needy 100% of people think that Emily Petrain is passive 100% of people think that Emily Petrain is overdramatic <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (100%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (100%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (100%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) 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 (0%) passive (100%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (100%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) 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="http://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 13.2.2025, using data from 1 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari?view=Emily Petrain">view Emily Petrain's full data</a>. </div>

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