tinglin'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 tinglin's.

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Not Known to Others	Façade insecure	Unknown incompetent timid cowardly aloof glum stupid simple irresponsible vulgar withdrawn hostile selfish unhappy unhelpful needy unimaginative inane brash ignorant irrational childish boastful chaotic weak embarrassed loud vacuous unethical passive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

Dominant Traits

100% of people agree that tinglin is intolerant

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (100%) inflexible (25%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (25%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (25%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (25%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (25%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (25%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (25%) imperceptive (25%) chaotic (0%) impatient (25%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (25%) unethical (0%) insensitive (25%) self-satisfied (25%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (25%) dispassionate (25%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (25%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (25%) cold (25%) foolish (0%) humourless (0%)

Description Breakdown (4 people)

lulu thinks: self-satisfied, cold, intolerant, insensitive, unreliable.
marcus thinks: violent, intolerant, lethargic, cruel, panicky.
liz thinks: distant, impatient, rash, blasé, dispassionate.
calvin thinks: intolerant, intolerant, inflexible, callous, cynical, imperceptive.

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> intolerant, cynical, insensitive, callous</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, violent, lethargic, cruel, distant, blasé, imperceptive, impatient, panicky, self-satisfied, rash, dispassionate, unreliable, cold</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> insecure</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, aloof, glum, stupid, simple, irresponsible, vulgar, withdrawn, hostile, selfish, unhappy, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, ignorant, irrational, childish, boastful, chaotic, weak, embarrassed, loud, vacuous, unethical, passive, smug, overdramatic, dull, predictable, inattentive, foolish, humourless</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people agree that tinglin is intolerant <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (100%) inflexible (25%) timid (0%) cowardly (0%) violent (25%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (0%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (25%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (25%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (25%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (25%) childish (0%) boastful (0%) blasé (25%) imperceptive (25%) chaotic (0%) impatient (25%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (0%) vacuous (0%) panicky (25%) unethical (0%) insensitive (25%) self-satisfied (25%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (25%) dispassionate (25%) overdramatic (0%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (25%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (25%) cold (25%) 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 5.4.2025, using data from 4 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari">make your own Nohari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/nohari?view=tinglin">view tinglin'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.