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Known to Others	Arena insecure lethargic cynical	Blind Spot incompetent intolerant cowardly aloof withdrawn selfish brash distant boastful blasé imperceptive vacuous unethical smug rash overdramatic humourless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

Dominant Traits

80% of people agree that daerlyn is cynical
60% of people think that daerlyn is blasé

All Percentages

incompetent (20%) intolerant (20%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (20%) violent (0%) aloof (20%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (20%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (40%) withdrawn (40%) hostile (0%) selfish (20%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (80%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (20%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (20%) childish (0%) boastful (20%) blasé (60%) imperceptive (20%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (20%) panicky (0%) unethical (20%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (20%) rash (20%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (20%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (20%)

Description Breakdown (5 people)

vig thinks: lethargic, cynical, boastful, blasé, smug, withdrawn.
cowboyx thinks: rash, cynical, distant, insecure, imperceptive.
Luscus_Viator thinks: blasé, cynical, withdrawn, brash, intolerant.
squidmark thinks: cynical, unethical, lethargic, blasé, aloof.
booba thinks: incompetent, cowardly, humourless, vacuous, selfish, overdramatic.

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> insecure, lethargic, cynical</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> incompetent, intolerant, cowardly, aloof, withdrawn, selfish, brash, distant, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, vacuous, unethical, smug, rash, overdramatic, 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> impatient, insensitive, callous</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> inflexible, timid, violent, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, hostile, unhappy, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, cruel, ignorant, irrational, childish, chaotic, weak, embarrassed, loud, panicky, self-satisfied, passive, dispassionate, dull, predictable, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>80% of people agree that daerlyn is cynical 60% of people think that daerlyn is blasé <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (20%) intolerant (20%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (20%) violent (0%) aloof (20%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (20%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (40%) withdrawn (40%) hostile (0%) selfish (20%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (80%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (20%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (20%) childish (0%) boastful (20%) blasé (60%) imperceptive (20%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (20%) panicky (0%) unethical (20%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (20%) rash (20%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (20%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) 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="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=daerlyn">view daerlyn'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.