geg'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 geg's.

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Known to Others	Arena lethargic inane smug rash	Blind Spot intolerant glum withdrawn cynical irrational distant blasé chaotic loud vacuous insensitive callous foolish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

Dominant Traits

80% of people think that geg is cynical
60% of people think that geg is chaotic

All Percentages

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violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (20%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (40%) withdrawn (40%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (80%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (40%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (5 people)

manicirony thinks: loud, inane, withdrawn, blasé, chaotic, glum.
Plat thinks: lethargic, cynical, smug, callous, vacuous.
geraldine thinks: lethargic, cynical, inane, withdrawn, distant.
bert thinks: foolish, rash, intolerant, chaotic, cynical.
gracie thinks: intolerant, cynical, insensitive, chaotic, irrational.

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> lethargic, inane, smug, rash</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, glum, withdrawn, cynical, irrational, distant, blasé, chaotic, loud, vacuous, insensitive, 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> irresponsible, self-satisfied</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, aloof, stupid, simple, insecure, vulgar, hostile, selfish, unhappy, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, brash, cruel, ignorant, childish, boastful, imperceptive, impatient, weak, embarrassed, panicky, unethical, passive, dispassionate, overdramatic, dull, predictable, inattentive, unreliable, cold, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>80% of people think that geg is cynical 60% of people think that geg is chaotic <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (40%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (20%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (40%) withdrawn (40%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (80%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (40%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (20%) distant (20%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (20%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (60%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (20%) vacuous (20%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (20%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (20%) rash (20%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (20%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (20%) humourless (0%) <div style="border:1px solid #000; padding:8px; text-align:center;background:#eee"> Created by the <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 11.8.2025, using data from 5 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari?view=geg">view geg'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.