Pharaohc'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.

You can get your own Nohari Window, or contribute to Pharaohc's.

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Known to Others	Arena timid insecure dull	Blind Spot inflexible withdrawn unhappy cynical embarrassed insensitive smug overdramatic foolish humourless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

Dominant Traits

75% of people think that Pharaohc is inflexible
75% of people agree that Pharaohc is dull

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (75%) timid (25%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (25%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (25%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (50%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (50%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (25%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (50%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (25%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (25%) dull (75%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (25%) humourless (50%)

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Babar thinks: insensitive, overdramatic, dull, foolish, humourless.
wakakafat thinks: dull, withdrawn, inflexible, unhappy, timid, insecure.
Deb thinks: inflexible, cynical, insensitive, humourless, dull.
David thinks: inflexible, unhappy, cynical, smug, embarrassed.

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> timid, insecure, dull</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, withdrawn, unhappy, cynical, embarrassed, insensitive, smug, overdramatic, 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> incompetent, needy, passive</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, cowardly, violent, aloof, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, hostile, selfish, unhelpful, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, childish, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, chaotic, impatient, weak, loud, vacuous, panicky, unethical, self-satisfied, rash, dispassionate, predictable, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>75% of people think that Pharaohc is inflexible 75% of people agree that Pharaohc is dull <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (75%) timid (25%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (25%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (25%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (50%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (50%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (25%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (50%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (25%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (25%) dull (75%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (25%) humourless (50%) <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=Pharaohc">view Pharaohc'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.