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Known to Others	Arena timid insecure childish loud overdramatic	Blind Spot aloof stupid vulgar withdrawn unhappy needy ignorant embarrassed panicky humourless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

Dominant Traits

75% of people agree that yiNgs is timid
75% of people agree that yiNgs is overdramatic

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (75%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (25%) glum (0%) stupid (25%) simple (0%) insecure (50%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (25%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (25%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (25%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (25%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (25%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (25%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (25%) loud (50%) vacuous (0%) panicky (25%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (75%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (0%) unreliable (0%) cold (0%) foolish (0%) humourless (25%)

Description Breakdown (4 people)

jing thinks: insecure, panicky, aloof, overdramatic, ignorant.
yk thinks: timid, withdrawn, insecure, humourless, embarrassed.
jialing* thinks: childish, timid, overdramatic, loud, vulgar.
ypzo thinks: loud, timid, needy, unhappy, stupid, overdramatic.

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> timid, insecure, childish, loud, overdramatic</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> aloof, stupid, vulgar, withdrawn, unhappy, needy, ignorant, embarrassed, panicky, 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> predictable</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, inflexible, cowardly, violent, glum, simple, irresponsible, lethargic, hostile, selfish, unhelpful, cynical, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, irrational, distant, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, chaotic, impatient, weak, vacuous, unethical, insensitive, self-satisfied, passive, smug, rash, dispassionate, dull, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>75% of people agree that yiNgs is timid 75% of people agree that yiNgs is overdramatic <h3>All Percentages</h3>incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (75%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (25%) glum (0%) stupid (25%) simple (0%) insecure (50%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (25%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (25%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (25%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (0%) needy (25%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (25%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (25%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (0%) weak (0%) embarrassed (25%) loud (50%) vacuous (0%) panicky (25%) unethical (0%) insensitive (0%) self-satisfied (0%) passive (0%) smug (0%) rash (0%) dispassionate (0%) overdramatic (75%) 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="http://kevan.org/nohari">Nohari Window</a> on 19.4.2025, 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=yiNgs">view yiNgs'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.