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to Others	Façade insecure embarrassed	Unknown incompetent inflexible timid glum stupid simple irresponsible lethargic withdrawn selfish unhelpful unimaginative inane brash ignorant irrational childish boastful blasé imperceptive weak vacuous panicky unethical insensitive rash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

Dominant Traits

80% of people think that Sigurbjorg is violent
80% of people agree that Sigurbjorg is impatient

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (20%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (20%) violent (80%) aloof (20%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (40%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (40%) selfish (0%) unhappy (20%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (20%) needy (20%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (20%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (20%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (20%) impatient (80%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (20%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (20%) passive (20%) smug (20%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (20%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (20%)

Description Breakdown (5 people)

Ã?sak SigurjÃ³n thinks: violent, intolerant, hostile, impatient, loud.
HjÃ¶rtur thinks: violent, vulgar, humourless, chaotic, cowardly, smug.
Kolbrun thinks: unhappy, cynical, distant, aloof, impatient, passive.
Omar thinks: violent, impatient, vulgar, hostile, cruel.
Hemmi Gunn thinks: violent, impatient, needy, predictable, self-satisfied.

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> aloof, cynical, impatient</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> intolerant, cowardly, violent, vulgar, hostile, unhappy, needy, cruel, distant, chaotic, loud, self-satisfied, passive, smug, 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> insecure, embarrassed</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, inflexible, timid, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, lethargic, withdrawn, selfish, unhelpful, unimaginative, inane, brash, ignorant, irrational, childish, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, weak, vacuous, panicky, unethical, insensitive, rash, dispassionate, overdramatic, dull, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>80% of people think that Sigurbjorg is violent 80% of people agree that Sigurbjorg is impatient <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (20%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (20%) violent (80%) aloof (20%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (40%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (40%) selfish (0%) unhappy (20%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (20%) needy (20%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (20%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (20%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (20%) impatient (80%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (20%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (20%) passive (20%) smug (20%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) 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="http://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 28.4.2025, 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=Sigurbjorg">view Sigurbjorg'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.