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Known to Others	Arena intolerant cynical impatient self-satisfied	Blind Spot inflexible violent aloof lethargic withdrawn unhappy cruel boastful blasé chaotic loud insensitive smug dull callous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

Dominant Traits

60% of people think that direstraits is smug

All Percentages

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(40%) aloof (40%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (40%) withdrawn (20%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (20%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (20%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (20%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

here yougo thinks: lethargic, smug, aloof, blasé, self-satisfied, dull.
jm thinks: violent, callous, intolerant, cruel, cynical.
Jo anne the girl friend thinks: self-satisfied, smug, chaotic, lethargic, withdrawn.
lester thinks: impatient, violent, loud, inflexible, intolerant.
joannne thinks: insensitive, boastful, unhappy, smug, aloof.

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> intolerant, cynical, impatient, self-satisfied</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, lethargic, withdrawn, unhappy, cruel, boastful, blasé, chaotic, loud, insensitive, smug, dull, callous</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, hostile</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, timid, cowardly, glum, stupid, simple, insecure, irresponsible, selfish, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, ignorant, irrational, distant, childish, imperceptive, weak, embarrassed, vacuous, panicky, unethical, passive, rash, dispassionate, overdramatic, predictable, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>60% of people think that direstraits is smug <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (40%) inflexible (20%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (40%) aloof (40%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (40%) withdrawn (20%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (20%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (20%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (20%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (20%) blasé (20%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (20%) impatient (20%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (20%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (20%) self-satisfied (40%) passive (0%) smug (60%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (20%) predictable (0%) callous (20%) inattentive (0%) 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 22.6.2026, 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=direstraits">view direstraits'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.