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