shmoo18'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 shmoo18's.

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insensitive unreliable	Unknown intolerant inflexible timid cowardly glum stupid simple irresponsible vulgar lethargic withdrawn selfish unhelpful needy brash cruel ignorant childish boastful chaotic weak embarrassed loud panicky unethical passive dispassionate dull predictable callous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

All Percentages

incompetent (25%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (25%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (25%) selfish (0%) unhappy (25%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (25%) needy (0%) unimaginative (25%) inane (50%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (25%) distant (25%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (25%) imperceptive (25%) chaotic (0%) impatient (50%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (25%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (25%) passive (0%) smug (25%) rash (25%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (25%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (25%)

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Melinheaven! thinks: rash, overdramatic, impatient, irrational, unhappy.
ros thinks: hostile, inane, , distant, aloof.
ravi thinks: self-satisfied, smug, inane, cynical, humourless.
aidlyn thinks: incompetent, unimaginative, impatient, imperceptive, blasé, vacuous.

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> irrational, 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> incompetent, aloof, hostile, unhappy, cynical, unimaginative, inane, distant, blasé, imperceptive, impatient, vacuous, self-satisfied, smug, 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> violent, insecure, insensitive, unreliable</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> intolerant, inflexible, timid, cowardly, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, withdrawn, selfish, unhelpful, needy, brash, cruel, ignorant, childish, boastful, chaotic, weak, embarrassed, loud, panicky, unethical, passive, dispassionate, dull, predictable, callous, inattentive, cold, foolish</td></tr></table> <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (25%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (25%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (25%) selfish (0%) unhappy (25%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (25%) needy (0%) unimaginative (25%) inane (50%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (25%) distant (25%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (25%) imperceptive (25%) chaotic (0%) impatient (50%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (25%) panicky (0%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (25%) passive (0%) smug (25%) rash (25%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (25%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (25%) <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 27.5.2026, using data from 4 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=shmoo18">view shmoo18'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.