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1. What is your style of dress?
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Plain, functional, and muted colors
Simple, muted colors
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
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2. What kind of landscape or environment do you prefer?
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
High mountains or cities, and orderly 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?
Dusk, twilight
Morning
Late afternoon
No one particular time
Dawn
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Touch (physical connection)
No particular one
Smell and taste
Sight
Hearing
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5. What do you desire?
To have it all
To know
To feel
To just be
To do
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Just being
Learning something and then teaching it to others
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?
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
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8. What do you fear?
Not having enough
Emotional intimacy
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Intrusion
Failure
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
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
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?
Active, making things happen
Spacious, simple
The center of attention
Intimate and emotional
Detached and logical
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Direct, straightforward
Clear-minded
Accommodating
Embracing and appreciative
Empathetic and communicative
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
By being businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
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 possessive, overbearing, and demanding too much time and attention
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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
Turning thought into action without hesitation
Comprehensive and thorough
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15. What is your learning style?
By doing; trial and error
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Amassing information; doing research
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16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Simple, slow
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Clear, orderly, and precise
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
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
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?
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
Making sure things get done
Nondoing
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
Needing to get it done
Wanting to possess
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
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?
Making things simple
Planning and managing
Being resourceful
Making relationships and genuine contact
Knowing the answers, being right
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Not certain who I am
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Taking control
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Shutting down; tunnel vision
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
More information
Speedy efficiency
Clear communication
On-the-spot brainstorming
Personal connection
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
An action plan
Confirmation and encouragement
Networking leads
Specific direction
Independence
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Intuitive discrimination
All-encompassing space
All-accomplishing action
Equanimity
Insightful clarity
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