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1. What is your style of dress?
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Simple, muted colors
Plain, functional, and muted colors
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
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2. What kind of landscape or environment do you prefer?
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
High mountains or cities, and orderly interiors
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3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
No one particular time
Late afternoon
Dusk, twilight
Morning
Dawn
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
No particular one
Sight
Touch (physical connection)
Hearing
Smell and taste
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5. What do you desire?
To know
To do
To feel
To have it all
To just be
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Creating and doing projects
Just being
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Learning something and then teaching it to others
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Clinging passion and comparison to others
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
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8. What do you fear?
Emotional intimacy
Intrusion
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Failure
Not having enough
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
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?
Realize that nothing is a big deal
Seek confirmation from others that I am lovable and feel lovable
Take some space and have patience until I come to clarity
Remember to slow down
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
Intimate and emotional
Active, making things happen
Spacious, simple
The center of attention
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Direct, straightforward
Accommodating
Clear-minded
Empathetic and communicative
Embracing and appreciative
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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 businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
By being possessive, overbearing, and demanding too much time and attention
By being clinging then rejecting, exhibiting a love/hate dynamic, trying too hard to please
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Spacious and accommodating
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
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15. What is your learning style?
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
By doing; trial and error
Amassing information; doing research
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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
Clear, orderly, and precise
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Simple, slow
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Seeing the big picture and its details
Retaining large amounts of information
By just being
Seeing how things work
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Making sure things get done
Nondoing
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
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
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
Wanting to possess
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Planning and managing
Knowing the answers, being right
Making relationships and genuine contact
Being resourceful
Making things simple
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Not certain who I am
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Taking control
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Shutting down; tunnel vision
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Clear communication
More information
Speedy efficiency
On-the-spot brainstorming
Personal connection
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Confirmation and encouragement
Independence
Networking leads
An action plan
Specific direction
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
All-accomplishing action
Equanimity
Insightful clarity
All-encompassing space
Intuitive discrimination
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