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A Five Wisdoms Questionnaire
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1. What is your style of dress?
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Plain, functional, and muted colors
Simple, muted colors
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
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
Dawn
Late afternoon
Dusk, twilight
Morning
No one particular time
4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Sight
Smell and taste
Hearing
Touch (physical connection)
No particular one
5. What do you desire?
To know
To have it all
To feel
To do
To just be
6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Learning something and then teaching it to others
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Creating and doing projects
Just being
7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
8. What do you fear?
Emotional intimacy
Not having enough
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Failure
Intrusion
9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
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
Seek confirmation from others that I am lovable and feel lovable
Remember to slow down
Realize that nothing is a big deal
11. How are you most often when you are with others?
Detached and logical
The center of attention
Intimate and emotional
Active, making things happen
Spacious, simple
12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Clear-minded
Embracing and appreciative
Empathetic and communicative
Direct, straightforward
Accommodating
13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By insisting on being right; by being intolerant, opinionated, critical, and sharp
By being possessive, overbearing, and demanding too much time and attention
By being clinging then rejecting, exhibiting a love/hate dynamic, trying too hard to please
By being businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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
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
16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Clear, orderly, and precise
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Simple, slow
17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Seeing the big picture and its details
Retaining large amounts of information
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
Seeing how things work
By just being
18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Making sure things get done
Nondoing
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
Needing to get it done
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
20. When do you feel most productive?
Knowing the answers, being right
Being resourceful
Making relationships and genuine contact
Planning and managing
Making things simple
21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Not certain who I am
22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Taking control
Shutting down; tunnel vision
23. What do you like in teamwork?
Clear communication
More information
Personal connection
Speedy efficiency
On-the-spot brainstorming
24. What do you need from your supervisor?
Specific direction
Networking leads
Confirmation and encouragement
An action plan
Independence
25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Insightful clarity
Equanimity
Intuitive discrimination
All-accomplishing action
All-encompassing space
