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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
High mountains or cities, and orderly interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
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3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
Late afternoon
Dawn
Dusk, twilight
Morning
No one particular time
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Hearing
No particular one
Touch (physical connection)
Smell and taste
Sight
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5. What do you desire?
To feel
To know
To have it all
To just be
To do
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Just being
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Creating and doing projects
Learning something and then teaching it to others
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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
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?
Intrusion
Not having enough
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Failure
Emotional intimacy
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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
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
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?
Remember to slow down
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
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11. How are you most often when you are with others?
Detached and logical
The center of attention
Active, making things happen
Intimate and emotional
Spacious, simple
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Clear-minded
Embracing and appreciative
Direct, straightforward
Empathetic and communicative
Accommodating
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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
By being possessive, overbearing, and demanding too much time and attention
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
Comprehensive and thorough
Turning thought into action without hesitation
Spacious and accommodating
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15. What is your learning style?
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
Amassing information; doing research
By doing; trial and error
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
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16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Clear, orderly, and precise
Simple, slow
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Retaining large amounts of information
By just being
Seeing the big picture and its details
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
Seeing how things work
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Nondoing
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Making sure things get done
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
Wanting to possess
Needing to get it done
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Being resourceful
Making relationships and genuine contact
Knowing the answers, being right
Making things simple
Planning and managing
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Not certain who I am
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Not feeling right or perfect
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Taking control
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Clear communication
On-the-spot brainstorming
More information
Personal connection
Speedy efficiency
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
An action plan
Specific direction
Confirmation and encouragement
Independence
Networking leads
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
All-accomplishing action
All-encompassing space
Insightful clarity
Equanimity
Intuitive discrimination
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