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Sunday, July 20, 2003 Life as an ENTP Results From : Myers-Briggs Test (Extravert, Intuitive, Thinker, Perceiver) People of this type tend to be: friendly, charming, and outgoing; quick-witted, energetic, and irreverent; ingenious, imaginative, and creative; curious, flexible, and unpredictable; logical and analytical. The most important thing to ENTPs is being creative, seeing possibilities, and always having new challenges. Here are just a few popular and often satisfying careers for people whose Personality Type is ENTP. Entrepreneur Investment banker Venture capitalist Outplacement consultant Management / marketing consultant Copywriter Radio/TV talk show host Political manager Real estate developer Actor Strategic planner University / college president Motivational speaker Internet marketer Advertising creative director How to Love an ENTP Appreciate my perceptiveness and original insights. Encourage me to spend time with people and be free to respond to spontaneous opportunities. Listen to me talk about my ideas and brainstorm with me. Be willing to debate and discuss ideas. Try not to nag me about small things or about being too messy. Above all - respect my competency and need to constantly take on new challenges. Parenting ENTPs The Joys and Challenges of Raising ENTPs: They are curious, clever, and persuasive but can also be impulsive, unpredictable, and argumentative. While they are enterprising, ambitious, and entertaining, they may be quite unrealistic, bore easily, and leave many projects unfinished. What works with ENTPs: expect a high energy level; give plenty of playmates and varied, physical outlets for their energy encourage their creative ideas; try their solutions whenever possible find ways to encourage and appreciate their gift of negotiation SpeedReading ENTPs The key to success lies in your ability to quickly size others up, and speak their language. Here are just a few clues for SpeedReading (understanding) and SpeedReaching (communicating with) ENTPs. How to Spot ENTPs: energetic, charming, and witty enthusiastic, creative, and expressive easygoing, adventurous, and persuasive image conscious and snappy dressers Tips for Communicating with ENTPs: Focus on creative possibilities Expect a lot of questions - don't force decisions too soon Stay flexible and open to suggestions and improvements More from a separate test differing in questions, but same option for the 'type' of character available as a result, and I happened to get the same results.. Different Types : [ENFP] [INFP] [ENFJ] [INFJ] [ESTJ] [ISTJ] [ESFJ] [ISFJ] [ENTP] [INTP] [ENTJ] [INTJ] [ESTP] [ISTP] [ESFP] [ISFP] Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving by Marina Margaret Heiss Profile: ENTP Revision: 1.41 Date of Revision: 3 Dec 02 "Clever" is the word that perhaps describes ENTPs best. The professor who juggles half a dozen ideas for research papers and grant proposals in his mind while giving a highly entertaining lecture on an abstruse subject is a classic example of the type. So is the stand-up comedian whose lampoons are not only funny, but incisively accurate.ENTPs are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick, and generally love to argue--both for its own sake, and to show off their often-impressive skills. They tend to have a perverse sense of humor as well, and enjoy playing devil's advocate. They sometimes confuse, even inadvertently hurt, those who don't understand or accept the concept of argument as a sport.ENTPs are as innovative and ingenious at problem-solving as they are at verbal gymnastics; on occasion, however, they manage to outsmart themselves. This can take the form of getting found out at "sharp practice"--ENTPs have been known to cut corners without regard to the rules if it's expedient -- or simply in the collapse of an over-ambitious juggling act. Both at work and at home, ENTPs are very fond of "toys"--physical or intellectual, the more sophisticated the better. They tend to tire of these quickly, however, and move on to new ones.ENTPs are basically optimists, but in spite of this (perhaps because of it?), they tend to become extremely petulant about small setbacks and inconveniences. (Major setbacks they tend to regard as challenges, and tackle with determin- ation.) ENTPs have little patience with those they consider wrongheaded or unintelligent, and show little restraint in demonstrating this. However, they do tend to be extremely genial, if not charming, when not being harassed by life in general.In terms of their relationships with others, ENTPs are capable of bonding very closely and, initially, suddenly, with their loved ones. Some appear to be deceptively offhand with their nearest and dearest; others are so demonstrative that they succeed in shocking co-workers who've only seen their professional side. ENTPs are also good at acquiring friends who are as clever and entertaining as they are. Aside from those two areas, ENTPs tend to be oblivious of the rest of humanity, except as an audience -- good, bad, or potential.Some Famous ENTPs: Alexander the Great Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart Sir Walter Raleigh Fictional:Mercutio, from Romeo and Juliet Horace Rumpole, from John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey series Dorothy L. Sayers's detective Lord Peter Wimsey A Functional Analysis by Joe Butt Extraverted iNtuitionENTPs are nothing if not unique. Brave new associations flow freely from the unconscious into the world of the living. Making, discovering and developing connections between and among two or more of anything is virtually automatic. The product of intuition is merely an icon of process; ENTPs are in the business of change, improvement, experimentation.The attraction Extraverted iNtuition has toward the real and physical amounts to a cosmic non sequitur: theory is drawn to practice. Such encounters are clearly puzzling. Both parties--the intuitor and the realist--are aware of a xenic quality in their meeting, with reactions ranging from recoil to reverie.Introverted ThinkingThinking is iNtuition's ready assistant, an embodiment of the sort of logic found in laws, boards and circuits. Thinking's job is to lend focus and direction to iNtuition's critical mass. The temporary habitations of changeling iNtuition are constructed of Boolean materials from Thinking's storehouse. Ultimately, Thinking is no match for iNtuition's prodigiousness. Systems lie in various states of disarray, fragmentary traces of Thinking's feverish attempts to shadow and undergird the leaps of the dominant function. One can only suppose that Thinking must continue to work during REM sleep pulling together iNtuition's brainchildren into integral wholes.Extraverted FeelingTo the extent that Feeling is developed, ENTPs extravert Feeling judgment. As a result, it is not uncommon to find affability and bonhomie in members of this species. Tertiary functions are potentially utilitarian. Their limitations appear in their relative underdevelopment, diminished endurance, and vulnerability. ENTPs may harness Feeling's good will in areas such as sales, service, drama, humor and art. ENTP loyalty often runs high and can be hooked by those the ENTP counts as friends.Introverted SensingLike a tail on the kite of iNtuition, Introverted Sensing counterweighs these beings drawn to nonconformity and anarchy. These shadowy sensory forms, so familiar to SJ types, serve as lodestones which many ENTPs employ Herculean measures to escape. "Question authority! (then do exactly what it tells you)" sums up the dilemma in which ENTPs may find themselves by attempting to best the tarbaby Sensing. Occasionally acknowledging awareness of norms and abnormality could, in theory, be potentially freeing. Additionally, I've noticed that ENTPs have the need to have areas of expertise/excellence/uniqueness in which one is second to none. I've never beaten an ENTP at his/her own game--not in the final analysis. (e.g., just tonight, my neighbor who is recuperating from an illness received a call from an ENTP friend offering his special recipe for tea. The instructions required only the finest ingredients, a particular brand of orange juice, tea made with a ball--none of those horrid teabags--..., which will of course make the best tea of which he himself drinks 50 gallons each winter!) A Few More Famous ENTPsU.S. Presidents: John Adams, 2nd US president. [Adams appears to have been competing with Thomas Jefferson to see who would live the longest. ("Jefferson surv...")] James A. Garfield (who could reportedly write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other, simultaneously) Rutherford B. Hayes Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Thomas Edison Lewis Carrol (Alice in Wonderland) Julia Child Suzanne Pleshette George Carlin Valerie Harper John Candy John Sununu Weird Al Yankovick Marilyn Vos Savant Alfred Hitchcock Tom Hanks David Spade Céline Dion Fictional Characters:"Q" (Star Trek--The Next Generation) Shirley Feeney (Laverne and Shirley) Bugs Bunny Wile E. Coyote Jon Davis's GarfieldCopyright © 1996-2002 by Joe Butt and Marina Margaret Heiss Type Relationships for ENTPs: . . . babbled Lin |
