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