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1. What is your style of dress?
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Simple, muted colors
Plain, functional, and muted colors
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2. What kind of landscape or environment do you prefer?
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
High mountains or cities, and orderly interiors
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished 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
No one particular time
Late afternoon
Dawn
Morning
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
No particular one
Hearing
Sight
Touch (physical connection)
Smell and taste
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5. What do you desire?
To have it all
To know
To do
To feel
To just be
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Learning something and then teaching it to others
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Creating and doing projects
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Just being
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
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8. What do you fear?
Not having enough
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Emotional intimacy
Failure
Intrusion
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
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?
Seek confirmation from others and reconnect to my own richness
Seek confirmation from others that I am lovable and feel lovable
Remember to slow down
Take some space and have patience until I come to clarity
Realize that nothing is a big deal
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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?
Embracing and appreciative
Empathetic and communicative
Clear-minded
Direct, straightforward
Accommodating
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By being businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
By insisting on being right; by being intolerant, opinionated, critical, and sharp
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 being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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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
Turning thought into action without hesitation
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
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15. What is your learning style?
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
Amassing information; doing research
By doing; trial and error
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
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16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Simple, slow
Clear, orderly, and precise
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
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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
Seeing how things work
Retaining large amounts of information
By just being
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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
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
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
Wanting to possess
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
Needing to get it done
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Making relationships and genuine contact
Planning and managing
Knowing the answers, being right
Being resourceful
Making things simple
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Not certain who I am
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Taking control
Wanting to please; ingratiating
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Personal connection
More information
On-the-spot brainstorming
Clear communication
Speedy efficiency
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Networking leads
An action plan
Independence
Specific direction
Confirmation and encouragement
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Insightful clarity
Intuitive discrimination
Equanimity
All-encompassing space
All-accomplishing action
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