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Known to Others	Façade aloof impatient	Unknown incompetent cowardly glum stupid simple irresponsible vulgar lethargic withdrawn hostile selfish unhelpful needy unimaginative inane brash ignorant distant childish boastful blasé imperceptive chaotic weak loud vacuous unethical insensitive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

Dominant Traits

75% of people agree that Gerald C. is cynical

All Percentages

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violent (50%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (25%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (25%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (75%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (25%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Benny Chee thinks: cynical, humourless, irrational, cruel, embarrassed, passive.
smiley thinks: violent, cynical, irrational, unhappy, cold.
Bryce =D thinks: intolerant, inflexible, violent, cynical, rash, callous.
cannotmeh thinks: insecure, timid, panicky, overdramatic, rash, inflexible.

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> intolerant, violent, insecure, 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, unhappy, cruel, irrational, embarrassed, panicky, passive, rash, overdramatic, callous, cold, humourless</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> aloof, 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, cowardly, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, withdrawn, hostile, selfish, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, ignorant, distant, childish, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, chaotic, weak, loud, vacuous, unethical, insensitive, self-satisfied, smug, dispassionate, dull, predictable, inattentive, unreliable, foolish</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>75% of people agree that Gerald C. is cynical <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (25%) inflexible (50%) timid (25%) cowardly (0%) violent (50%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (25%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (25%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (75%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (25%) ignorant (0%) irrational (50%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (25%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (25%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (25%) smug (0%) rash (50%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (25%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (25%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (25%) foolish (0%) humourless (25%) <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 25.8.2026, 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=Gerald C.">view Gerald C.'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.