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childish loud rash	Unknown incompetent intolerant inflexible timid cowardly aloof glum simple irresponsible lethargic withdrawn hostile selfish unhappy unhelpful unimaginative inane ignorant distant boastful imperceptive weak vacuous insensitive self-satisfied passive smug dispassionate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

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that Jakob is impatient

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (33%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (33%) simple (0%) insecure (33%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (33%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (33%) needy (33%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (33%) cruel (33%) ignorant (0%) irrational (33%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (33%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (33%) impatient (66%) weak (0%) embarrassed (33%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (33%) unethical (33%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (33%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (33%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (3 people)

Embers thinks: insecure, needy, panicky, overdramatic, cynical, embarrassed.
I hate Jake thinks: cruel, violent, vulgar, brash, impatient, irrational.
f thinks: blasé, chaotic, foolish, unethical, impatient, stupid.

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> stupid, insecure, chaotic</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> violent, vulgar, cynical, needy, brash, cruel, irrational, blasé, impatient, embarrassed, panicky, unethical, overdramatic, 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> childish, loud, rash</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, timid, cowardly, aloof, glum, simple, irresponsible, lethargic, withdrawn, hostile, selfish, unhappy, unhelpful, unimaginative, inane, ignorant, distant, boastful, imperceptive, weak, vacuous, insensitive, self-satisfied, passive, smug, dispassionate, dull, predictable, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people think that Jakob is impatient <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (33%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (33%) simple (0%) insecure (33%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (33%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (33%) needy (33%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (33%) cruel (33%) ignorant (0%) irrational (33%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (33%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (33%) impatient (66%) weak (0%) embarrassed (33%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (33%) unethical (33%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (33%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (33%) 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 12.8.2026, using data from 3 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=Jakob">view Jakob'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.