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Known to Others	Arena glum withdrawn	Blind Spot intolerant stupid insecure unhappy unhelpful childish blasé loud vacuous passive callous foolish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

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that abelincoln is insecure
66% of people think that abelincoln is unhappy

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (33%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (33%) stupid (33%) simple (0%) insecure (66%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (33%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (66%) unhelpful (33%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (33%) boastful (0%) blasé (33%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (33%) vacuous (33%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (33%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (33%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (33%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (3 people)

pakXD thinks: stupid, childish, passive, insecure, unhappy, foolish.
x thinks: vacuous, insecure, blasé, withdrawn, callous.
anonymous thinks: intolerant, glum, unhappy, unhelpful, loud.

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> glum, withdrawn</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, stupid, insecure, unhappy, unhelpful, childish, blasé, loud, vacuous, passive, callous, foolish</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> aloof, cynical, dispassionate</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, cowardly, violent, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, hostile, selfish, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, boastful, imperceptive, chaotic, impatient, weak, embarrassed, panicky, unethical, insensitive, self-satisfied, smug, rash, overdramatic, dull, predictable, inattentive, unreliable, cold, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people think that abelincoln is insecure 66% of people think that abelincoln is unhappy <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (33%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (33%) stupid (33%) simple (0%) insecure (66%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (33%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (66%) unhelpful (33%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (33%) boastful (0%) blasé (33%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (33%) vacuous (33%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (33%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (33%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (33%) 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 9.6.2026, using data from 3 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=abelincoln">view abelincoln's full data</a>. </div>

The Nohari Window was tinted by Kevan on the 12th of February 2006.
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