ba'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 ba's.

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Known to Others	Arena violent passive predictable	Blind Spot timid cowardly insecure lethargic withdrawn selfish cynical inane childish boastful imperceptive impatient weak vacuous self-satisfied overdramatic unreliable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

Dominant Traits

60% of people think that ba is insecure

All Percentages

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(20%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (60%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (40%) withdrawn (40%) hostile (0%) selfish (20%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (20%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (20%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

:o thinks: cowardly, insecure, withdrawn, cynical, childish, overdramatic.
sacki thinks: withdrawn, lethargic, timid, predictable, insecure.
freeloader thinks: passive, unreliable, self-satisfied, inane, violent.
-ar yan:D haha thinks: vacuous, boastful, lethargic, selfish, imperceptive.
mags thinks: insecure, childish, impatient, weak, passive.

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> violent, passive, predictable</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, cowardly, insecure, lethargic, withdrawn, selfish, cynical, inane, childish, boastful, imperceptive, impatient, weak, vacuous, self-satisfied, overdramatic, unreliable</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> unimaginative, 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, inflexible, aloof, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, hostile, unhappy, unhelpful, needy, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, blasé, chaotic, embarrassed, loud, unethical, insensitive, smug, rash, dispassionate, dull, callous, inattentive, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people think that ba is insecure <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (20%) cowardly (20%) violent (20%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (60%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (40%) withdrawn (40%) hostile (0%) selfish (20%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (20%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (20%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (40%) boastful (20%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (20%) chaotic (0%) impatient (20%) weak (20%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (20%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (20%) passive (40%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (20%) dull (0%) predictable (20%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (20%) 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 10.6.2026, 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=ba">view ba'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.