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1. What is your style of dress?
Plain, functional, and muted colors
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Simple, muted colors
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2. What kind of landscape or environment do you prefer?
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
High mountains or cities, and orderly interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
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3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
Dusk, twilight
Dawn
No one particular time
Morning
Late afternoon
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Touch (physical connection)
Smell and taste
Sight
Hearing
No particular one
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5. What do you desire?
To feel
To know
To just be
To have it all
To do
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Creating and doing projects
Just being
Learning something and then teaching it to others
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
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8. What do you fear?
Failure
Emotional intimacy
Not having enough
Intrusion
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
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10. What do you do to take care of yourself when you are upset?
Take some space and have patience until I come to clarity
Seek confirmation from others that I am lovable and feel lovable
Realize that nothing is a big deal
Seek confirmation from others and reconnect to my own richness
Remember to slow down
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11. How are you most often when you are with others?
Active, making things happen
Detached and logical
The center of attention
Intimate and emotional
Spacious, simple
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Direct, straightforward
Empathetic and communicative
Accommodating
Embracing and appreciative
Clear-minded
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By being clinging then rejecting, exhibiting a love/hate dynamic, trying too hard to please
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
By insisting on being right; by being intolerant, opinionated, critical, and sharp
By being businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
By being possessive, overbearing, and demanding too much time and attention
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Turning thought into action without hesitation
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
Comprehensive and thorough
Spacious and accommodating
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
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15. What is your learning style?
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
Amassing information; doing research
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
By doing; trial and error
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16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Simple, slow
Clear, orderly, and precise
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Retaining large amounts of information
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
Seeing how things work
Seeing the big picture and its details
By just being
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
Making sure things get done
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Nondoing
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
Needing to get it done
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
Wanting to possess
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Knowing the answers, being right
Making relationships and genuine contact
Being resourceful
Making things simple
Planning and managing
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Not certain who I am
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Taking control
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
More information
Clear communication
Speedy efficiency
On-the-spot brainstorming
Personal connection
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Independence
An action plan
Specific direction
Networking leads
Confirmation and encouragement
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
All-encompassing space
Intuitive discrimination
All-accomplishing action
Insightful clarity
Equanimity
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