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Façade cynical cruel	Unknown incompetent intolerant timid cowardly violent aloof glum irresponsible vulgar lethargic withdrawn hostile unhappy unhelpful unimaginative brash ignorant blasé imperceptive weak embarrassed loud vacuous insensitive self-satisfied passive rash inattentive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

Dominant Traits

60% of people agree that Gillian Newberry is overdramatic

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (20%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (20%) simple (40%) insecure (20%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (20%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (20%) unimaginative (0%) inane (20%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (20%) distant (20%) childish (20%) boastful (20%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (20%) impatient (20%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (20%) unethical (20%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (20%) rash (0%) dispassionate (20%) overdramatic (60%) dull (40%) predictable (20%) callous (20%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (20%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (5 people)

Suz thinks: inflexible, insecure, impatient, irrational, needy.
Anon thinks: stupid, foolish, unethical, dull, simple.
Anonymous thinks: inane, dull, predictable, overdramatic, simple.
anon thinks: selfish, overdramatic, childish, callous, boastful.
Marshall thinks: dispassionate, overdramatic, smug, panicky, chaotic, distant.

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> inflexible, insecure, selfish, overdramatic</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> stupid, simple, needy, inane, irrational, distant, childish, boastful, chaotic, impatient, panicky, unethical, smug, dispassionate, dull, predictable, callous, 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> cynical, cruel</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, timid, cowardly, violent, aloof, glum, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, withdrawn, hostile, unhappy, unhelpful, unimaginative, brash, ignorant, blasé, imperceptive, weak, embarrassed, loud, vacuous, insensitive, self-satisfied, passive, rash, inattentive, unreliable, cold, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people agree that Gillian Newberry is overdramatic <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (20%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (20%) simple (40%) insecure (20%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (20%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (20%) unimaginative (0%) inane (20%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (20%) distant (20%) childish (20%) boastful (20%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (20%) impatient (20%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (20%) unethical (20%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (20%) rash (0%) dispassionate (20%) overdramatic (60%) dull (40%) predictable (20%) callous (20%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (20%) 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 10.6.2026, using data from 5 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=Gillian Newberry">view Gillian Newberry'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.