Silver Arrow'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 Silver Arrow's.

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Known to Others	Façade	Unknown incompetent intolerant timid cowardly violent glum stupid irresponsible vulgar lethargic withdrawn hostile unhappy unhelpful cynical unimaginative inane brash cruel irrational childish blasé chaotic impatient weak embarrassed loud vacuous panicky unethical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

All Percentages

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(0%) aloof (25%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (50%) insecure (25%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (50%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (25%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (25%)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

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Swordfishtrombone thinks: inflexible, simple, boastful, self-satisfied, overdramatic.
C thinks: selfish, cold, predictable, aloof, ignorant.
This is Colon, Sorry! :( thinks: humourless, foolish, predictable, dull, distant, simple.
NewCalamity thinks: insecure, selfish, needy, imperceptive, smug, 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> simple, insecure, distant, overdramatic, foolish</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, aloof, selfish, needy, ignorant, boastful, imperceptive, self-satisfied, smug, dull, predictable, cold, 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> </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, glum, stupid, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, withdrawn, hostile, unhappy, unhelpful, cynical, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, irrational, childish, blasé, chaotic, impatient, weak, embarrassed, loud, vacuous, panicky, unethical, insensitive, passive, rash, dispassionate, callous, inattentive, unreliable</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (25%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (25%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (50%) insecure (25%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (50%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (25%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (25%) irrational (0%) distant (25%) childish (0%) boastful (25%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (25%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (25%) passive (0%) smug (25%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (25%) dull (25%) predictable (50%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (25%) foolish (25%) humourless (50%) <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 12.5.2025, using data from 4 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari?view=Silver Arrow">view Silver Arrow's full data</a>. </div>

The Nohari Window was tinted by Kevan on the 12th of February 2006.
Any questions? Check the FAQ.
For the original positive spin, look through the Johari Window.