Wolfskin'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 Wolfskin's.

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Known to Others	Façade vulgar panicky	Unknown incompetent intolerant timid cowardly glum stupid simple irresponsible withdrawn unhappy unhelpful needy unimaginative inane brash cruel ignorant irrational distant childish blasé imperceptive weak embarrassed vacuous insensitive passive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

Dominant Traits

60% of people agree that Wolfskin is hostile

All Percentages

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(40%) aloof (20%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (20%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (20%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (60%) selfish (20%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (20%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

Jackie (I heart you!) thinks: cynical, violent, hostile, impatient, self-satisfied.
asdf thinks: inflexible, insecure, hostile, unethical, selfish.
Starkette thinks: loud, smug, aloof, boastful, inattentive.
Justin thinks: violent, overdramatic, smug, chaotic, self-satisfied.
Tara (thinks you rock!) thinks: inflexible, lethargic, hostile, impatient, loud, inattentive.

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> hostile, cynical, chaotic, loud</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, violent, aloof, insecure, lethargic, selfish, boastful, impatient, unethical, self-satisfied, smug, overdramatic, inattentive</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> vulgar, panicky</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, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, withdrawn, unhappy, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, childish, blasé, imperceptive, weak, embarrassed, vacuous, insensitive, passive, rash, dispassionate, dull, predictable, callous, unreliable, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people agree that Wolfskin is hostile <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (40%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (40%) aloof (20%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (20%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (20%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (60%) selfish (20%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (20%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (20%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (20%) impatient (40%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (40%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (20%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (40%) passive (0%) smug (40%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (20%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (40%) 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="https://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 11.6.2026, 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=Wolfskin">view Wolfskin'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.