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1. What is your style of dress?
Plain, functional, and muted colors
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Simple, muted colors
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
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
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated 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
Dusk, twilight
Morning
Dawn
No one particular time
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
No particular one
Sight
Hearing
Smell and taste
Touch (physical connection)
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5. What do you desire?
To know
To do
To just be
To have it all
To feel
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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
Learning something and then teaching it to others
Just being
Creating and doing projects
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
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?
Not having enough
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Emotional intimacy
Failure
Intrusion
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
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?
Take some space and have patience until I come to clarity
Seek confirmation from others and reconnect to my own richness
Realize that nothing is a big deal
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?
The center of attention
Detached and logical
Intimate and emotional
Spacious, simple
Active, making things happen
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Embracing and appreciative
Empathetic and communicative
Clear-minded
Accommodating
Direct, straightforward
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By being businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
By being possessive, overbearing, and demanding too much time and attention
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
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Spacious and accommodating
Turning thought into action without hesitation
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
Comprehensive and thorough
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
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15. What is your learning style?
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
By doing; trial and error
Amassing information; doing research
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16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Simple, slow
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Clear, orderly, and precise
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Seeing the big picture and its details
By just being
Seeing how things work
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
Retaining large amounts of information
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Nondoing
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Making sure things get done
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
Needing to get it done
Wanting to possess
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Knowing the answers, being right
Planning and managing
Making relationships and genuine contact
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
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Taking control
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Shutting down; tunnel vision
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Speedy efficiency
On-the-spot brainstorming
Personal connection
Clear communication
More information
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Networking leads
An action plan
Independence
Specific direction
Confirmation and encouragement
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Equanimity
All-encompassing space
Insightful clarity
Intuitive discrimination
All-accomplishing action
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