orthogonality'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 orthogonality's.

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distant impatient passive	Unknown incompetent timid cowardly violent aloof glum stupid simple insecure vulgar lethargic withdrawn selfish unhelpful unimaginative ignorant irrational blasé imperceptive chaotic weak embarrassed loud vacuous panicky unethical smug rash dispassionate dull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

Dominant Traits

66% of people agree that orthogonality is cynical
66% of people think that orthogonality is childish

All Percentages

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violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (33%) selfish (0%) unhappy (33%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (66%) needy (33%) unimaginative (0%) inane (33%) brash (33%) cruel (33%) ignorant (0%)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

Description Breakdown (3 people)

anon thinks: insensitive, cynical, brash, childish, cruel.
SassHat thinks: cynical, boastful, childish, overdramatic, inane.
thinks: intolerant, hostile, self-satisfied, needy, unhappy.

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> 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> intolerant, hostile, unhappy, needy, inane, brash, cruel, childish, boastful, insensitive, self-satisfied, overdramatic</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> inflexible, irresponsible, distant, impatient, passive</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, violent, aloof, glum, stupid, simple, insecure, vulgar, lethargic, withdrawn, selfish, unhelpful, unimaginative, ignorant, irrational, blasé, imperceptive, chaotic, weak, embarrassed, loud, vacuous, panicky, unethical, smug, rash, dispassionate, dull, predictable, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people agree that orthogonality is cynical 66% of people think that orthogonality is childish <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (33%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (33%) selfish (0%) unhappy (33%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (66%) needy (33%) unimaginative (0%) inane (33%) brash (33%) cruel (33%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (66%) boastful (33%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (33%) self-satisfied (33%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (33%) 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="http://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 16.4.2025, using data from 3 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari?view=orthogonality">view orthogonality'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.