SarahSparrow'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 SarahSparrow's.

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Known to Others	Arena insecure overdramatic	Blind Spot timid aloof glum stupid withdrawn hostile unhappy needy irrational childish boastful chaotic weak loud self-satisfied passive predictable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

Dominant Traits

60% of people think that SarahSparrow is loud

All Percentages

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(0%) aloof (20%) glum (20%) stupid (20%) simple (0%) insecure (20%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (20%) hostile (20%) selfish (0%) unhappy (20%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (20%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

boomer thinks: withdrawn, passive, aloof, timid, chaotic.
Ann thinks: insecure, childish, boastful, loud, weak, needy.
anonymous thinks: self-satisfied, boastful, predictable, hostile, overdramatic.
anonimous thinks: loud, childish, irrational, timid, stupid.
nemo thinks: chaotic, loud, overdramatic, unhappy, glum.

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> insecure, overdramatic</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> timid, aloof, glum, stupid, withdrawn, hostile, unhappy, needy, irrational, childish, boastful, chaotic, weak, loud, self-satisfied, 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> selfish, cynical, impatient, foolish</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, cowardly, violent, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, unhelpful, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, distant, blasé, imperceptive, embarrassed, vacuous, panicky, unethical, insensitive, smug, rash, dispassionate, dull, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people think that SarahSparrow is loud <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (40%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (20%) glum (20%) stupid (20%) simple (0%) insecure (20%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (20%) hostile (20%) selfish (0%) unhappy (20%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (20%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (20%) distant (0%) childish (40%) boastful (40%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (40%) impatient (0%) weak (20%) embarrassed (0%) loud (60%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (20%) passive (20%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (40%) dull (0%) predictable (20%) 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="http://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 19.4.2025, using data from 5 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari?view=SarahSparrow">view SarahSparrow'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.