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