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Not Known to Others	Façade withdrawn insensitive	Unknown incompetent intolerant timid cowardly violent stupid simple irresponsible vulgar hostile selfish unhelpful needy unimaginative inane brash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

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that mjr is glum
66% of people agree that mjr is insecure

All Percentages

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(0%) aloof (33%) glum (66%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (66%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (33%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (33%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (33%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (3 people)

Lynoure thinks: embarrassed, aloof, insecure, unhappy, panicky.
Droidy thinks: glum, lethargic, dispassionate, imperceptive, distant.
vera thinks: cynical, insecure, glum, inflexible, smug.

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> aloof, insecure, unhappy, 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> inflexible, glum, lethargic, distant, imperceptive, embarrassed, panicky, smug, dispassionate</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> withdrawn, insensitive</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, timid, cowardly, violent, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, hostile, selfish, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, childish, boastful, blasé, chaotic, impatient, weak, loud, vacuous, unethical, self-satisfied, passive, rash, overdramatic, dull, predictable, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people think that mjr is glum 66% of people agree that mjr is insecure <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (33%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (33%) glum (66%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (66%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (33%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (33%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (33%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (33%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (33%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (33%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (33%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (33%) rash (0%) dispassionate (33%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) 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 10.6.2026, 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=mjr">view mjr'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.