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1. What is your style of dress?
Simple, muted colors
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Plain, functional, and 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?
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
High mountains or cities, and orderly 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?
Morning
Dawn
Late afternoon
Dusk, twilight
No one particular time
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Touch (physical connection)
Hearing
No particular one
Smell and taste
Sight
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5. What do you desire?
To know
To have it all
To feel
To just be
To do
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Just being
Creating and doing projects
Learning something and then teaching it to others
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?
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
Clinging passion and comparison to others
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8. What do you fear?
Intrusion
Failure
Not having enough
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Emotional intimacy
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
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
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
Intimate and emotional
Active, making things happen
The center of attention
Spacious, simple
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Embracing and appreciative
Empathetic and communicative
Clear-minded
Direct, straightforward
Accommodating
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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 aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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
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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
Turning thought into action without hesitation
Comprehensive and thorough
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
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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?
Clear, orderly, and precise
Simple, slow
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
By just being
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
Seeing how things work
Retaining large amounts of information
Seeing the big picture and its details
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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?
Needing to get it done
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
Wanting to possess
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Making things simple
Knowing the answers, being right
Planning and managing
Making relationships and genuine contact
Being resourceful
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Not certain who I am
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Taking control
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Personal connection
Speedy efficiency
Clear communication
More information
On-the-spot brainstorming
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Confirmation and encouragement
Networking leads
Specific direction
An action plan
Independence
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
All-accomplishing action
Insightful clarity
Equanimity
Intuitive discrimination
All-encompassing space
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