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1. What is your style of dress?
Simple, muted colors
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
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
High mountains or cities, and orderly 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?
Dawn
Morning
No one particular time
Dusk, twilight
Late afternoon
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Hearing
No particular one
Touch (physical connection)
Smell and taste
Sight
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5. What do you desire?
To do
To have it all
To feel
To know
To just be
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Creating and doing projects
Just being
Learning something and then teaching it to others
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
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8. What do you fear?
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Failure
Emotional intimacy
Intrusion
Not having enough
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
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
Remember to slow down
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?
Intimate and emotional
Active, making things happen
Spacious, simple
Detached and logical
The center of attention
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Direct, straightforward
Accommodating
Embracing and appreciative
Clear-minded
Empathetic and communicative
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
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 businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
By being possessive, overbearing, and demanding too much time and attention
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Spacious and accommodating
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
Comprehensive and thorough
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
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
By doing; trial and error
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16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Simple, slow
Clear, orderly, and precise
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Seeing the big picture and its details
Retaining large amounts of information
Seeing how things work
By just being
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
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
Nondoing
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
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
Wanting to possess
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
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
Planning and managing
Making things simple
Being resourceful
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Not certain who I am
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Not feeling right or perfect
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Taking control
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Wanting to please; ingratiating
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Speedy efficiency
Clear communication
Personal connection
On-the-spot brainstorming
More information
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
An action plan
Specific direction
Networking leads
Confirmation and encouragement
Independence
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Intuitive discrimination
All-accomplishing action
Insightful clarity
Equanimity
All-encompassing space
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