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embarrassed insensitive	Unknown incompetent intolerant inflexible timid cowardly aloof glum stupid simple irresponsible withdrawn selfish unhappy unhelpful unimaginative inane cruel ignorant blasé imperceptive chaotic loud vacuous panicky unethical self-satisfied passive rash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

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that Karl Elvis is childish

All Percentages

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(33%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (33%) lethargic (33%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (33%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (33%) needy (33%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (33%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (3 people)

Darkneuro thinks: cynical, brash, smug, lethargic, inattentive.
Whirly thinks: violent, hostile, vulgar, childish, impatient, boastful.
yeah thinks: needy, irrational, childish, weak, 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> lethargic, smug</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, hostile, cynical, needy, brash, irrational, childish, boastful, impatient, weak, overdramatic, inattentive</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> insecure, distant, embarrassed, insensitive</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, stupid, simple, irresponsible, withdrawn, selfish, unhappy, unhelpful, unimaginative, inane, cruel, ignorant, blasé, imperceptive, chaotic, loud, vacuous, panicky, unethical, self-satisfied, passive, rash, dispassionate, dull, predictable, callous, unreliable, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people think that Karl Elvis is childish <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (33%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (33%) lethargic (33%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (33%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (33%) needy (33%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (33%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (33%) distant (0%) childish (66%) boastful (33%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (33%) weak (33%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (33%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (33%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (33%) 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 5.2.2025, using data from 3 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari?view=Karl Elvis">view Karl Elvis'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.