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panicky insensitive	Unknown intolerant inflexible timid cowardly violent aloof glum stupid simple irresponsible vulgar withdrawn hostile unhelpful needy unimaginative inane cruel ignorant irrational distant boastful blasé impatient weak loud vacuous unethical self-satisfied smug rash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

Dominant Traits

100% of people think that Matt Yu is childish

All Percentages

incompetent (50%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (50%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (50%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (50%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (50%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (100%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (50%) chaotic (50%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (50%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (50%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (2 people)

Jen Tse thinks: brash, lethargic, childish, predictable, unhappy, incompetent.
LZ thinks: cynical, imperceptive, chaotic, childish, passive.

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</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> incompetent, unhappy, cynical, brash, childish, imperceptive, chaotic, passive, predictable</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, selfish, embarrassed, panicky, 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> intolerant, inflexible, timid, cowardly, violent, aloof, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, withdrawn, hostile, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, boastful, blasé, impatient, weak, loud, vacuous, unethical, self-satisfied, smug, rash, dispassionate, overdramatic, dull, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people think that Matt Yu is childish <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (50%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (50%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (50%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (50%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (50%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (100%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (50%) chaotic (50%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (50%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (50%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) 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="https://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 10.6.2026, using data from 2 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=Matt Yu">view Matt Yu'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.