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1. What is your style of dress?
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Simple, muted colors
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Plain, functional, and muted colors
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2. What kind of landscape or environment do you prefer?
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
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
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3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
No one particular time
Dusk, twilight
Dawn
Late afternoon
Morning
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Sight
Smell and taste
Touch (physical connection)
Hearing
No particular one
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5. What do you desire?
To just be
To do
To know
To feel
To have it all
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Creating and doing projects
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
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?
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
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
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8. What do you fear?
Emotional intimacy
Not having enough
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
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
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10. What do you do to take care of yourself when you are upset?
Take some space and have patience until I come to clarity
Realize that nothing is a big deal
Seek confirmation from others that I am lovable and feel lovable
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?
Intimate and emotional
Active, making things happen
Detached and logical
The center of attention
Spacious, simple
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Clear-minded
Empathetic and communicative
Direct, straightforward
Accommodating
Embracing and appreciative
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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
By being businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Comprehensive and thorough
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
Spacious and accommodating
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?
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
Amassing information; doing research
By doing; trial and error
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
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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?
By just being
Seeing how things work
Retaining large amounts of information
Seeing the big picture and its details
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?
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
Needing to get it done
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
Wanting to possess
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Knowing the answers, being right
Planning and managing
Making things simple
Being resourceful
Making relationships and genuine contact
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Not feeling right or perfect
Not certain who I am
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Taking control
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Clear communication
Personal connection
More information
On-the-spot brainstorming
Speedy efficiency
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Independence
Networking leads
An action plan
Specific direction
Confirmation and encouragement
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Intuitive discrimination
Equanimity
Insightful clarity
All-encompassing space
All-accomplishing action
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