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Others	Façade timid distant	Unknown incompetent intolerant cowardly violent aloof glum stupid irresponsible lethargic withdrawn selfish unhappy unhelpful cynical unimaginative inane cruel ignorant irrational blasé imperceptive impatient weak embarrassed loud vacuous panicky insensitive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

All Percentages

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(0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (25%) insecure (25%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (25%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (25%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (25%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (50%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (4 people)

sigz thinks: childish, chaotic, foolish, brash, predictable.
Sóli thinks: foolish, childish, insecure, chaotic, predictable.
Oddur(Þetta var erfitt) thinks: inflexible, simple, boastful, unethical, needy.
johann thinks: hostile, vulgar, cold, brash, humourless.

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> simple, insecure, childish</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, vulgar, hostile, needy, brash, boastful, chaotic, unethical, predictable, cold, foolish, 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> timid, distant</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, aloof, glum, stupid, irresponsible, lethargic, withdrawn, selfish, unhappy, unhelpful, cynical, unimaginative, inane, cruel, ignorant, irrational, blasé, imperceptive, impatient, weak, embarrassed, loud, vacuous, panicky, insensitive, self-satisfied, passive, smug, rash, dispassionate, overdramatic, dull, callous, inattentive, unreliable</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (25%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (25%) insecure (25%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (25%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (25%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (25%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (50%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (50%) boastful (25%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (50%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (25%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (50%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (25%) foolish (50%) 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 11.6.2026, 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=Gudi">view Gudi'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.