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