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1. What is your style of dress?
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Plain, functional, and muted colors
Simple, muted colors
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
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?
High mountains or cities, and orderly interiors
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
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3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
Late afternoon
Dawn
Morning
No one particular time
Dusk, twilight
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Touch (physical connection)
Hearing
No particular one
Sight
Smell and taste
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5. What do you desire?
To feel
To just be
To know
To have it all
To do
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Just being
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Creating and doing projects
Learning something and then teaching it to others
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
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?
Emotional intimacy
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Intrusion
Not having enough
Failure
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
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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
Remember to slow down
Seek confirmation from others that I am lovable and feel lovable
Take some space and have patience until I come to clarity
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
Active, making things happen
Intimate and emotional
The center of attention
Spacious, simple
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Clear-minded
Accommodating
Embracing and appreciative
Empathetic and communicative
Direct, straightforward
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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 businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
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?
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
Turning thought into action without hesitation
Comprehensive and thorough
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
Spacious and accommodating
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15. What is your learning style?
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Amassing information; doing research
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
By doing; trial and error
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
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Simple, slow
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Clear, orderly, and precise
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Retaining large amounts of information
By just being
Seeing how things work
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
Seeing the big picture and its details
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Making sure things get done
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Nondoing
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
Wanting to possess
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
Needing to get it done
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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?
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Not feeling right or perfect
Not certain who I am
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Taking control
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Wanting to please; ingratiating
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Clear communication
Personal connection
More information
Speedy efficiency
On-the-spot brainstorming
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
An action plan
Independence
Networking leads
Specific direction
Confirmation and encouragement
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
All-encompassing space
Equanimity
Insightful clarity
Intuitive discrimination
All-accomplishing action
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