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1. What is your style of dress?
Plain, functional, and muted colors
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Simple, muted colors
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
2. What kind of landscape or environment do you prefer?
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
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
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3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
Dusk, twilight
Morning
Dawn
No one particular time
Late afternoon
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
No particular one
Touch (physical connection)
Sight
Hearing
Smell and taste
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5. What do you desire?
To know
To feel
To just be
To have it all
To do
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Learning something and then teaching it to others
Creating and doing projects
Just being
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
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8. What do you fear?
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Not having enough
Failure
Emotional intimacy
Intrusion
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
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?
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
Active, making things happen
Spacious, simple
Detached and logical
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Empathetic and communicative
Clear-minded
Embracing and appreciative
Accommodating
Direct, straightforward
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
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
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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
Comprehensive and thorough
Turning thought into action without hesitation
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15. What is your learning style?
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Amassing information; doing research
By doing; trial and error
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
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16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Simple, slow
Clear, orderly, and precise
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Seeing the big picture and its details
Seeing how things work
Retaining large amounts of information
By just being
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Making sure things get done
Nondoing
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
Needing to get it done
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
Wanting to possess
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Knowing the answers, being right
Planning and managing
Making relationships and genuine contact
Being resourceful
Making things simple
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Not certain who I am
Not feeling right or perfect
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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
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
On-the-spot brainstorming
Clear communication
Personal connection
More information
Speedy efficiency
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Specific direction
An action plan
Networking leads
Independence
Confirmation and encouragement
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
All-accomplishing action
Insightful clarity
Intuitive discrimination
All-encompassing space
Equanimity
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