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Known to Others	Arena inflexible impatient panicky	Blind Spot simple vulgar withdrawn needy brash childish boastful blasé weak loud vacuous self-satisfied overdramatic predictable humourless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

Dominant Traits

60% of people agree that PsychoKitten is panicky

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (20%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (20%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (20%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (20%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (40%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (20%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (40%) boastful (20%) blasé (40%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (20%) weak (20%) embarrassed (0%) loud (20%) vacuous (20%) panicky (60%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (40%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (40%) dull (0%) predictable (20%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (20%)

Description Breakdown (5 people)

Maiabear thinks: vulgar, blasé, childish, simple, panicky.
Stancie thinks: panicky, brash, blasé, boastful, needy.
sarahmarie (this was hard!) thinks: impatient, withdrawn, panicky, inflexible, predictable.
Nick thinks: loud, weak, overdramatic, self-satisfied, childish.
G thinks: vacuous, needy, self-satisfied, overdramatic, 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> inflexible, impatient, panicky</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> simple, vulgar, withdrawn, needy, brash, childish, boastful, blasé, weak, loud, vacuous, self-satisfied, overdramatic, predictable, 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> lethargic, passive, dull</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, timid, cowardly, violent, aloof, glum, stupid, insecure, irresponsible, hostile, selfish, unhappy, unhelpful, cynical, unimaginative, inane, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, imperceptive, chaotic, embarrassed, unethical, insensitive, smug, rash, dispassionate, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people agree that PsychoKitten is panicky <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (20%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (20%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (20%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (20%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (40%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (20%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (40%) boastful (20%) blasé (40%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (20%) weak (20%) embarrassed (0%) loud (20%) vacuous (20%) panicky (60%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (40%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (40%) dull (0%) predictable (20%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (20%) <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 9.6.2026, using data from 5 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=PsychoKitten">view PsychoKitten'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.