Kokology Questions & Answers
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Kokology is the study of kokoro (Japanese: 心) which in the aforementioned language means "mind" or "spirit". ... The books were published in 1998 in Japan and became a Japanese bestselling phenomenon. The books were translated and became available in the United States in 2000. Below are some questions and answers for sharing:
A Desert Journey
Boring class settings, you drifted away and enter the eternal desert...
1. You are riding a camel and you are near exhaustion, what will you say to the camel?
2. Before you die of thirst, a traveler point to you a oasis, who is this person you know?
3. You finally come to your destination which is a town, what is your feeling?
4. After you dismount, another person took over, who is this guy?
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1. What happened when love is lost?
2. Who always help or comforted you?
3. What is your feeling after getting past lost love?
4. This person is your love rivalry.
The Blue Bird
A bird fly into your house and change from blue to yellow, then to red and black day after day. What is the colour on the next day?
1. Stay black
2. Back to blue
3. White
4. Gold
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1. Pessimistic outlook
2. Practical optimist
3. Cool and decisive under pressure
4. Super opportunist
A Night at the Symphony
If you could join a best orchestra, what instrument will you play?
1. Violin
2. String bass
3. Trumpet
4. Flute
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1. You are good in fingering your partner
2. You are good in the back
3. You are good with mouth work
4. Most complicated style
On Your Birthday
Who sent you a birthday card who you never expect and who gift you the biggest present?
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Someone you worship will send you a card and someone with the biggest present is the one you often take for granted
Pictures at an Exhibition
In an art museum, a stranger suddenly say something to you:
1. "Isn't it a beautiful picture?"
2. "What do you think of this painting?"
3. "Excuse me, do you have the time?"
4. "You know, I happen to be a painter myself."
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1. You have a friendly and positive nature
2. You will hesitant before committing
3. You don't place much importance of what other think of you
4. You will seem a little overeager when first meeting someone
Deep in the Mountain
You journey to the mountain,
1. You search a rare stone, what is your impression of the mountain?
2. Sun has set and you haven't found the stone, what will you do next?
3. You finally found the stone, what is its size, weight and value?
4. What parting words will you say to the mountain?
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1. What is the impression of your dad
2. How do you deal with life situation
3. What is your self-worth
4. What you always wanted to say to you dad
The Forgotten Wallet
You have everything ready and left you house. Halfway you realise you forget to bring you wallet. After searching everywhere around you, how much money can you find?
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The amount you willing to lend your friend
Blue Coat, Yellow Coat
In a cold Christmas light, you decided to watch the lightings with a group. One person is wearing blue coat, another is wearing yellow coat. Who are these people you know?
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Blue is someone give you cold shoulder, yellow is someone you will feel happy about
Written in the Stars
You are doing stargazing,
1. Draw 3 stars of different sizes
2. Turn one of the star into comet
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1. Biggest star represent your career and if all stars around same size, you are not very happy with your job. If one star is bigger than the other 2, you are alright with it
2. If the comet is your biggest star, it is time to change job
Sweet Memories
Go back to an old sweet shop you remembered.
1. What candy will you pick first and why?
2. How many children entered the sweet shop?
3. The shopkeeper gave you how many extra sweet?
4. You are giving the candy, who is it?
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1. The reason is is how you judge who you want to mix with
2. How many people need your support
3. How much you still depend on your mum
4. Who is this special person
The Ride of Your Life
You go to a theme park.
1. How long is the roller coaster queue?
2. What kind of feeling you have when the speed turn on you?
3. You get drenched by the roller coaster, what you shout?
4. You went to a merry-go-round but your horse breaks down, what do you say to the horse?
5. Draw a perfect roller coaster.
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1. How you like to do your sex foreplay
2. How you feel while making love
3. What you say during sex climax
4. What do you say to your muscular dysfunction
5. How you would like your sex life to be
You're Only Human
You accidentally knock down a garbage can, what spill out?
1. Nothing
2. Loose trash
3. Apple cores, chicken bones and other raw garbage
4. Well-tied black plastic garbage bag
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1. You are simple and honest
2. You are complicated and holding back some things from saying
3. You are on diet, saving money or lose appetite
4. You have self control and hold back a lot of your feelings
Abracadabra, Alakazam
You are a magician and performing magic show, the curtain is rising.
1. How do you feel before the show begins?
2. Whom do you call to assist you, a person you know?
3. You mismanaged, what do you say to your assistant?
4. Back to your dressing room, how do you feel?
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1. How you feel in an affair
2. Someone you think is naive
3. What will you say to you partner if get caught cheating
4. How you feel after the whole cheating ordeal
In The Pages of a Magazine
You brought a popular magazine, how will you read it
1. Read from first page to last
2. Just straight to the article you interested only
3. Flip randomly and read only article worthwhile
4. You read the features in the same order as you always do
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1. You make your money worth
2. You burn a hole in your pocket
3. You spend economically
4. Your spending habit is very strict
Under a Clear Blue Sky
You see a calming blue sky, what follows?
1. White snowy plain
2. Blue seascape
3. Green mountain
4. Field of yellow flowers
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1. Decipher complex job
2. Interpersonal relations
3. Good with words
4. Knowledge and creativity
Into the Depths
You are entering an old abandoned building
1. How many steps to go down a staircase to basement?
2. You heard a sound, what is it? Weep? Speaking?
3. What is your reaction to that sound?
4. You heard someone calling your name from above the stair, who is it?
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1. How deep your psychological scar
2. How you got through bad experience
3. How you approach your darkness
4. Who you can rely on during trouble
In The Bag
You come across a black briefcase
1. "Hey, this must be lucky day!"
2. "Oh no, what am I doing to do now?"
3. "I'd better take a night to think this over"
4. "God must have wanted me to have this"
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1. You can be happy go lucky when come to dating
2. Often miss dating opportunity
3. Make dating decision wisely
4. Religious or think dating religiously
Cinderella Story
Which scene is the most outstanding
1. Cinderella suffered at the hands of her wicked stepmother
2. Cinderella transformed into a princess by her fairy godmother
3. Cinderella loses her slipper when the clock strike twelve
4. The prince find Cinderella and fit the glass on her foot
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1. Tendency to look down at people
2. Impracticality
3. Highly dependent on others
4. Too average
(Not So) Happily Ever After
You as Cinderella saw the glass slipper fits perfectly into your step sister's foot, what will you do?
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How you will react to your rival in love
Untamed
In a safari you saw a lion and lioness feeding on an animal, what were you thinking?
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How you react to adult video for the first time
Midnight Caller
You are asleep and woken up by one caller, who is this person and what he/she say to you?
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Someone reassuring you
Whale Watching
You saw a group of whale in the ocean, what are they doing?
1. Baby whale swim behind its mother
2. Baby whale snuggle closely to its mother
3. Father and mother whale swimming with their baby
4. Baby whale swim off alone
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1. Your mum played a huge part in your life
2. Too dependent on mother
3. Equal appreciate with father and mother
4. You are rather dependent
Blowing Your Own Horn
You are a seal in a zoo and is performing. What run through your mind while waiting for the show to end and the next bucket of fish from your trainer?
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This correspond to how you will handle your job
Planting The Seeds
You are an scientist and have found a new species, out of 100 seeds you plant in an inhospital desert how many will sprout?
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99-100. You have self-confident issue
81-98. You aware of you own capability and is confident
61-80. You are a cautious optimist
41-60. You are still searching
21-40. Pessimistic
1-20. You need to work on your value
0. You can't tolerate wrong or small mistakes
The Stolen Berries
You come across a berry field in the countryside.
1. How high is the fence?
2. How many berries you took?
3. You get caught, what did the farmer say to you?
4. After everything, how did the berry taste and how do you feel about being a thief?
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1. Your cheating self-control level
2. How many lovers you will have at a single time
3. What is your excuse when get caught cheating
4. What is your feeling in an affair
Caught in The Rain
You are walking half way and suddenly start pouring, what will you do?
1. Wait under a tree
2. Run as fast as you could to your destination
3. If anyone has an umbrella we could share or I can buy one
4. I always have an umbrella
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1. You will usually wait for someone to cool down first before your argument
2. You will argue till the end
3. You will avoid all conflict and confrontation
4. You always have an excuse for anything
Adrift on The Breeze
In a playground you are playing bubble, what is the scene you imagine?
1. Bubble float away high into the sky
2. Hundreds of tiny bubbles blow out
3. You are blowing an enormous bubble
4. The bubbles are carried behind you
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1. Your dreams are elusive and unattainable
2. Your dreams are attainable
3. You have a focused and important dream
4. You have been disappointed and hence you do not dream much
Bare Necessities
You are leaving the house and have taken all the bare necessities, which of the following will you bring along with you?
1. Personal organizer
2. Hairspray of mousse
3. Lucky charm
4. Candy or gum
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1. You cannot trust your memory
2. Appearance are all-important to you
3. Believe in bad luck
4. You have diet problem
Something's Fishy
You went for fishing and as the fish reel out of water so fast, it hit you. Where, in you did the fish hit?
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The particular body part is somewhere you want to protect
Welcome to My Parlour
Imagine you are a spider and sits in the centre of a large web
1. Draw a picture of your web and the insects in it
2. One of your bug fly away while you trying to eat it, what it says to you
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1. What kind of love partner you want in your web
2. What will you say when your confession been rejected
You Be The Judge
If you are an actor playing in a courtroom drama, which of the following character you see yourself playing?
1. Lawyer
2. Detective
3. Accused
4. Witness
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1. You are hotheaded and unable to hold your cool
2. People will turn to your for help
3. Tend to second-guess and judge yourself
4. You try to get along with everyone
Whisper In The Darkness
You lost in the deep cavern and a bat flies up and whisper something in your ear, what it says?
1. "I know where the exit it"
2. "Let me show you the way out"
3. "Keep looking"
4. "You're never, ever going to get out of here"
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1. You are a busybody and know-it-all
2. You have a big heart and are selfless
3. You encourage people to learn themselves
4. You jeer and kick at people who are already down
The Big Blowup
You view an erupting volcano at a safe distance, what is your thoughts?
1. "Maybe this is nature's way of warning us to stop destroying the earth"
2. "I guess the pressure just got too high inside there"
3. "Wow - what a sight! I'm impressed"
4. "It's in the nature of these things to blow up. Big deal"
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1. You thought you are responsible for people's anger
2. You often blame others when thing goes wrong
3. You accept criticism and outbursts in a positive way
4. You can say anything out and do not pay attention to it
In Business For Yourself
You went to a fair with all exquisite boutiques and merchandise, you decided to open a stall for original handmade jewelry.
1. How many different types of accessories and bangles do you put on display?
2. Why do you think someone will walk over and leave without buying anything?
3. What type of salesmanship will you use to close a potential customer?
4. How would you describe your sales when the shop close?
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1. How many social mask you will put on
2. How you feel after a heartbreak or rejection
3. How you express your strong points to others
4. Your social achievement
Before They Hatch
Imagine cracking open an egg of any shape, size, colour or species on a table infront of you, what kind of egg is it?
1. Snake
2. Turtle
3. Dinosaur
4. Chicken
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1. You want your children to have wisdom and wealth
2. You want your children to have health and longevity
3. You want your children to be unique
4. You want your children to be normal
Hung Out To Dry
You do all laundry yourself using hand wash, but when you look out the sky, it is all dark clouds with threatening rain, what goes through your mind?
1. You got to be kidding, what am i going to wear
2. Wait awhile to see if the weather will clear
3. Not going to do laundry today
4. Do laundry regardless
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1. Stress level 80: easily annoyed
2. Stress level 50: you keep balance of your stress level
3. Stress level 0: easy going
4. Stress level 100: you try to achieve the impossible
Like A Monkey In A Cage
You stroll at the zoo and pass by a monkey. As you look into its eyes, you all communicated. What it is trying to tell you?
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How you feel in a group or company but you just cannot say it
The Greatest Mystery
Imagine the soul survives after death, what form do you imagine?
1. Same size and shape of your body
2. Bigger in size
3. Become tiny like a fairy
4. Become flame of cloud, without definite form
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1. You accept yourself for who you are
2. You still have a lot of things to yet achieve
3. You are great, but not yet discover what is the best for yourself
4. You cannot be bothered about your shortcoming or strength
A True Adventure
You are a warrior that have been chosen to accompany a great hero to recover a stolen treasure.
1. What does the hero say to you as you prepare to embark on your quest?
2. The king gives you a sword, describe the sword in detail
3. You travel high and low with many obstacles and crisis, how many enemies you ecountered?
4. You finally arrived at your destination, what expression on your hero's face?
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1. Your pride weak spot
2. How you value your self pride
3. The greater the number, the more confidence you have on your abilities
4. What you find most attractive in opposite sex
Monster!
A monster is heading your way angrily, why?
1. It’s hungry and searching for food
2. It’s searching for lost love
3. It’s despondent because it’s so ugly
4. It’s angry at the entire world
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1. You may have diet problem
2. You have difficulty in love life
3. You are dissatisfied with your appearance
4. You have a pessimistic outlook
The Labyrinth
You went through a giant maze and finally exited, what is your feeling?
1. That was too easy
2. It took a while but no big deal
3. I was lost, I thought I would never get out
4. Someone inside helped me to get out
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1. You have a carefree teenage life
2. You do not have an easy teenage life but are being forge to who you are
3. You have a rough teenage life and resulted in self doubt
4. You always have someone to turn to
Empty Inside
You have a super lucky day and went to a local bakery to buy a jelly doughnut. You open it at home and found out the jelly is missing inside, how would you react?
1. Take it back for a new one
2. Eat the doughnut still
3. Eat something else
4. Fill it with maple syrup
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1. You played leadership role among your friends
2. You accept your fates and don't make any fuss
3. You make quick decisions among your friends
4. You are innovative and people turn to you when things happen
Circle, Triangle, Square
Draw a circle then as many triangles and square.
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Large circle possess great sense of self, small circle seeing yourself insignificant. Large triangles denotes work importance, many triangles means you have too many committment. Large square means social pressure, too many square shows lost in crowd. All shape overlap means a harmony in your life.
Doctor You
You are a psychotherapist with private counseling service.
1. Describe the room in detail you hold your therapy
2. What does your first patient want to talk to you about
3. What kind of reaction your patient have when you give your professional advice
4. You are doing paperwork when suddenly someone barge in, who is this person?
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1. Something you feel missing from your life
2. It is usually your own worries
3. Do you accept when good advice is given to you
4. The person who will cause you the most stress
Ready To Rumble
You watching live wrestling, if you have the chance to enter, what type of wrestler would you be?
1. Giant bruiser who bashes opponent with sheer strength
2. A technical wizard who use elaborate clinches and slam every new opponent
3. A villain who resort to illegal hold
4. An expressionless masked wrestler who never show emotions
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1. You like to control your partner
2. You enjoy new tricks and techniques with each new partner
3. You can't satisfied in traditional love making
4. You don't reveal real feeling when making love
Judging By Its Cover
You are a new artist, what type of jacket design would you pick for your CD?
1. Soothing scene using imagery
2. Fun cartoonish design or playful image
3. Abstract pattern that makes people think
4. A picture of yourself
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1. You are a caring and gentle person but have a wall around you
2. You are sociable and talkative but unreliable
3. You like to express your talent
4. You are straightforward and honest
Busted!
You are chasing down a suspect and you manage to run him down with a gun pointed at his face, what will the suspect say to you?
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The things you say when you get caught doing something bad
Driving Machine
What kind of dream car do you envision yourself driving?
1. High-performance vehicle
2. Sleek and beautiful chassis
3. Status-symbol ride with price tag to match
4. Anything as long as it runs
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1. You appreciate good points of your partner
2. You look at the physical appearance of your partner
3. Social position and material success are crucial to you
4. You are happy with anything that meet your minimum standard
Just Can't Wait
You visit your friend who has a new job, but he is having some kind of trouble, what did he did wrong?
1. Didn't come to the table after repeat calling
2. Made a mistake in order taking
3. Spilled something on the customer's clothes
4. Clear the table before customer eat finish
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1. You lack ability to concentrate
2. Always being late or bring uninvited friends
3. You are a generally serious person
4. You are over eager
On Second Thought
You ordered a sandwich and a cup of coffee without thinking, but after she leaves you suddenly have the mood for hot chocolate, what would you do?
1. Keep looking through the menu thinking how good the taste of hot cocoa
2. Look around to see if the waitress will come back
3. Get up and find the waitress so you can change the order
4. Give up and just wait for the coffee
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1. You don't know how to call it quits
2. You are not thrilled about the breakup and worry about what other might think
3. You will be shock in breakup and will try to distract yourself
4. You get over breakup easily
The Doctor Will See You Now
You are in a lobby of a medical clinic, waiting for your name to be called. A small boy is racing around the waiting area unattended and you warn him to be careful and slow down.
1. How does he react?
2. You saw a sickly person through a door opening, who is this person?
3. A doctor aide come out and call your name, a very familiar face, who is this?
4. The doctor mutter to himself when looking at your chart, what do you do?
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1. How you react to criticism
2. Someone you could never rely on during a crisis
3. Someone you always look up to or fear
4. How you handle being bullied or teased
Spreading Your Wings
We have decided to try skydiving and and ready to jump
1. While waiting for your turn, what is going through your mind?
2. While jumping out of the doorway, what do you scream?
3. What did the instructor say to you when you've landed safety
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1. You waiting for sex
2. How you feel about sex
3. What will your partner say after sex
All The World's A Stage
You are a member of a theater group.
1. What type of play do you want to play in, what is your big scene, explain in detail?
2. What words does your main rival have for you on being chosen?
3. A director look dissatisfied with your performance, why?
4. The crowds leave after the play, what do say to the empty stage?
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1. This reflects your future
2. How your future self will say to you
3. The areas you will make mistake in the future
4. What will you say at the end of life