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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
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2. What kind of landscape or environment do you prefer?
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
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
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3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
No one particular time
Dawn
Morning
Late afternoon
Dusk, twilight
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Smell and taste
No particular one
Touch (physical connection)
Hearing
Sight
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5. What do you desire?
To feel
To have it all
To just be
To do
To know
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Just being
Learning something and then teaching it to others
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Creating and doing projects
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
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8. What do you fear?
Intrusion
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Emotional intimacy
Failure
Not having enough
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
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10. What do you do to take care of yourself when you are upset?
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
Remember to slow down
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11. How are you most often when you are with others?
Spacious, simple
Detached and logical
The center of attention
Active, making things happen
Intimate and emotional
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Clear-minded
Embracing and appreciative
Direct, straightforward
Empathetic and communicative
Accommodating
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By insisting on being right; by being intolerant, opinionated, critical, and sharp
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Comprehensive and thorough
Spacious and accommodating
Turning thought into action without hesitation
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?
By doing; trial and error
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Amassing information; doing research
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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
Clear, orderly, and precise
Simple, slow
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
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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
Seeing the big picture and its details
Retaining large amounts of information
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Making sure things get done
Nondoing
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
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
Needing to get it done
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Knowing the answers, being right
Making things simple
Being resourceful
Planning and managing
Making relationships and genuine contact
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Not feeling right or perfect
Not certain who I am
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Taking control
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
More information
Personal connection
On-the-spot brainstorming
Clear communication
Speedy efficiency
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Specific direction
Independence
Networking leads
An action plan
Confirmation and encouragement
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Intuitive discrimination
Equanimity
All-encompassing space
Insightful clarity
All-accomplishing action
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