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