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1. What is your style of dress?
Plain, functional, and muted colors
Simple, muted colors
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
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?
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
High mountains or cities, and orderly interiors
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
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3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
Dawn
Morning
Late afternoon
Dusk, twilight
No one particular time
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Smell and taste
No particular one
Touch (physical connection)
Sight
Hearing
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5. What do you desire?
To know
To feel
To have it all
To do
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
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Creating and doing projects
Just being
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
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8. What do you fear?
Emotional intimacy
Intrusion
Failure
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Not having enough
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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
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
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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
Take some space and have patience until I come to clarity
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
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11. How are you most often when you are with others?
Active, making things happen
Intimate and emotional
The center of attention
Spacious, simple
Detached and logical
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Accommodating
Direct, straightforward
Clear-minded
Embracing and appreciative
Empathetic and communicative
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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 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 businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Turning thought into action without hesitation
Comprehensive and thorough
Spacious and accommodating
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
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15. What is your learning style?
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Amassing information; doing research
By doing; trial and error
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
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16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Simple, slow
Clear, orderly, and precise
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Retaining large amounts of information
Seeing how things work
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
Seeing the big picture and its details
By just being
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Nondoing
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Making sure things get done
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
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
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Knowing the answers, being right
Making relationships and genuine contact
Being resourceful
Making things simple
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?
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Taking control
Wanting to please; ingratiating
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
More information
On-the-spot brainstorming
Clear communication
Speedy efficiency
Personal connection
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Specific direction
Networking leads
Confirmation and encouragement
Independence
An action plan
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Intuitive discrimination
All-encompassing space
Equanimity
All-accomplishing action
Insightful clarity
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