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1. What is your style of dress?
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Simple, muted colors
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
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
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
High mountains or cities, and orderly interiors
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3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
Morning
Late afternoon
Dawn
Dusk, twilight
No one particular time
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Sight
Hearing
Smell and taste
Touch (physical connection)
No particular one
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5. What do you desire?
To just be
To do
To have it all
To feel
To know
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Learning something and then teaching it to others
Creating and doing projects
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Just being
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
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?
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
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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
Seek confirmation from others that I am lovable and feel lovable
Realize that nothing is a big deal
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?
Detached and logical
The center of attention
Active, making things happen
Spacious, simple
Intimate and emotional
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Direct, straightforward
Empathetic and communicative
Accommodating
Embracing and appreciative
Clear-minded
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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 businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
Comprehensive and thorough
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
Turning thought into action without hesitation
Spacious and accommodating
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15. What is your learning style?
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
By doing; trial and error
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
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?
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Clear, orderly, and precise
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Simple, slow
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
By just being
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
Retaining large amounts of information
Seeing how things work
Seeing the big picture and its details
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Making sure things get done
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
Nondoing
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
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
Needing to get it done
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Knowing the answers, being right
Being resourceful
Making things simple
Making relationships and genuine contact
Planning and managing
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Not certain who I am
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Taking control
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Speedy efficiency
On-the-spot brainstorming
More information
Clear communication
Personal connection
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Independence
Confirmation and encouragement
Specific direction
Networking leads
An action plan
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Insightful clarity
All-accomplishing action
All-encompassing space
Intuitive discrimination
Equanimity
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