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inattentive	Unknown incompetent inflexible timid cowardly violent aloof glum simple insecure irresponsible lethargic withdrawn hostile unhappy unhelpful needy unimaginative inane brash cruel ignorant irrational distant childish boastful blasé imperceptive impatient embarrassed vacuous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

Dominant Traits

100% of people think that shortruth is loud

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (50%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (50%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (50%) impatient (0%) weak (50%) embarrassed (0%) loud (100%) vacuous (0%) panicky (50%) unethical (0%) insensitive (50%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (50%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (50%) foolish (50%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (2 people)

davidstillthinksruthiscool thinks: weak, loud, chaotic, vulgar, cold.
Cow thinks: loud, overdramatic, foolish, insensitive, intolerant, panicky.

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> </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, vulgar, chaotic, weak, loud, panicky, insensitive, overdramatic, cold, 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> stupid, selfish, cynical, rash, dull, inattentive</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, glum, simple, insecure, irresponsible, lethargic, withdrawn, hostile, unhappy, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, distant, childish, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, impatient, embarrassed, vacuous, unethical, self-satisfied, passive, smug, dispassionate, predictable, callous, unreliable, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people think that shortruth is loud <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (50%) inflexible (0%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (50%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (50%) impatient (0%) weak (50%) embarrassed (0%) loud (100%) vacuous (0%) panicky (50%) unethical (0%) insensitive (50%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (50%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (50%) foolish (50%) 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 1.5.2026, using data from 2 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/nohari?view=shortruth">view shortruth'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.