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ENFPs are both “idea”-people and “people”-people, who see everyone and everything as part of a cosmic whole. They want to both help and to be liked and admired by other people, on both an individual and a humanitarian level. This is rarely a problem for the ENFP, as they are outgoing and warm, and genuinely like people. Some ENFPs have a great deal of zany charm * (and charisma), which can ingratiate them to more stodgy types in spite of their unconventionality.

ENFPs often have strong, if sometimes surprising, values and viewpoints. They tend to try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade others gently (though enthusiastically) of the rightness of these views; this sometimes results in the ENFP neglecting their nearest and dearest while caught up their efforts to change the world.

ENFPs can be the warmest, kindest, and most sympathetic of mates; affectionate, demonstrative, and spontaneous. Many in relationships with an ENFP literally say, “They light up my life. * I’ve been told that being with me is like having several different girlfriends, and you never know which one you’ll be with in the next few minutes. But there is usually a trade-off: the partner must be willing to deal with the practical and financial aspects of the relationship, and the ENFP must be allowed the freedom to follow their latest path, whatever that entails.* Yes, otherwise the mental, emotional and physocal may become unwell, to say it mildly.

For some ENFPs, relationships can be seriously tested by their short attention spans and emotional needs. They are easily intrigued and distracted by new friends and acquaintances, forgetting their older and more familiar emotional ties for long stretches at a time. And the less mature ENFP may need to feel they’re the constant center of attention, to confirm their image of themselves as a wonderful and fascinating person.

* I never had this problem, ~ never felt that I needed to be any center of attention.

But if I speak knowledge, and people don’t listen, I can’t help but feeling that they are poor and not yet worthy or, or ready for, improving/enrichening/informative/useful or even nessesary knowledge. So perhaps only in such moment would i rather be wishing to be that center of attention, but obvious for a bigger purpose than just some useless case of ego, which may eventually even cause something not good.

In the workplace, ENFPs are pleasant and friendly, and interact in a positive and creative manner with both their co-workers and the public. ENFPs are also a major asset in brainstorming sessions; follow-through on projects can be a problem, however.

* Yes, for finishing things, I often need to be in a team with another of a different influence, or simply not have finishing as any part of my tasks.
ENFPs do get distracted, especially if another interesting issue comes along. They also tend towards procrastination, and dislike performing small, uninteresting tasks. ENFPs are most productive when working in a group with a few Js to handle the details and the deadlines.

ENFPs are friendly folks. Most are really enjoyable people. Some of the most soft-hearted people are ENFPs.

ENFPs have what some call a “silly switch.” They can be intellectual, serious, all business for a while, but whenever they get the chance, they flip that switch and become CAPTAIN WILDCHILD, the scourge of the swimming pool, ticklers par excellence. Sometimes they may even appear intoxicated when the “switch” is flipped.

One study has shown that ENFPs are significantly overrepresented in psychodrama. Most have a natural propensity for role-playing and acting.

* which come out of a very developed and very agile Empathy. …and so that acting will be (Constantin Stanislawski’s) Method-Acting.

ENFPs like to tell funny stories, especially about their friends.

* BUT when about friends, then because that’s where most funny stories come from! Hello!? They are “your” stories, that people more than likely will not know already. Of course you don’t tell stories from movies. This penchant may be why many are attracted to journalism. * I have been Journaling all my life, but not reporting style, because No, actually I don’t like the average of journalism, as it mostly seems rather gossiping. I kid one of my ENFP friends that if I want the sixth fleet to know something, I’ll just tell him. * I didn’t even understand that one. Sixth fleet is a He? What!?

ENFPs are global learners. Close enough is satisfactory to the ENFP, which may unnerve more precise thinking types, especially with such things as piano practice (“three quarter notes or four … what’s the difference?”) Amazingly, some ENFPs are adept at exacting disciplines such as mathematics.

* Well in my case, rather than mathematics, that of complexes concepts, would be a better example in my case.

Friends are what life is about to ENFPs, moreso even than the other NFs. They hold up their end of the relationship, sometimes being victimized by less caring individuals.

* less caring individuals = less intelligent people. (Besides being a fact, I believe it’s ancient news, purposely Silenced, in order to dumb down the people who then gradually became sheeple. ENFPs are energized by being around people. Some have real difficulty being alone, especially on a regular basis. * I don’t have a real difficulty being alone, but I tend to choose more soltial time than alone time, while surely I also do want, and do enjoy solitude here n there. I’m a human, so I am obviously a tribal being, as this species are from their own very nature.

One ENFP colleague, a social worker, had such tremendous interpersonal skills that she put her interviewers at ease during her own job interview. She had the ability to make strangers feel like old friends.

* Yep, I tend to have that effect as well. …never thought of using it to interview people.

Gotta’ try that

ENFPs sometimes can be blindsided by their secondary Feeling function. Hasty decisions based on deeply felt values may boil over with unpredictable results. More than one ENFP has abruptly quit a job in such a moment.

* And SUCH A MOMENT can in my case only be, when a boss/manager, whoever happens to think that they rule over me, behave badly (on top of ruling instead of leading) to me or a colleague that I like. In such cases, I have always been the solidaric freedom fighter.And occasionally if an ingured need it to feel better, I come up with the most unusual ideas for getting even, and I love to see how it melts away the hurting pain from the one who got tormented.

Yeah, don’t mess with me nor mine, nor anyone I like.

(ENFP stands for Extravert, iNtuitive, Feeling, Perceiving and represents individual’s preferences in four dimensions characterising personality type, according to Jung’s and Briggs Myers’ theories of personality type.)

Functional Analysis Of The ENFP

Extraverted iNtuition

The physical world, both geos and kosmos, is the ENFP’s primary source of information. Rather than sensing things as they are, dominant intuition is sensitive to things as they might be. These extraverted intuitives are most adept with patterns and connections. Their natural inclination is toward relationships, especially among people or living things.

* Eeh… Yeah, without geos and cosmos would be like speaking of nature while only knowing of the soils without the rest. Ding-Dong!?

Intuition leans heavily on feeling for meaning and focus. Its best patterns reflect the interesting points of people, giving rise to caricatures of manner, speech and expression.

* Hi There! Yeah!, feeling is the finest of human sensory system.

Introverted Feeling

Auxiliary feeling is nonverbally implied more often than it is openly expressed.

* Duh, because you can’t explain everything, and obviously should you probably also not verbalise everything you might think and feel! HELLO!? haha..
When expressed, this logic has an aura of romance and purity that may seem out of place in this flawed, imperfect world. In its own defense, feeling judgement frequently and fleetly gives way to humor. ENFPs who publicize their feelings too often may put off some of the crowd of friends they naturally attract.

* Because most people fear feelings/sensitivity, as they have been taught to grow out of fine-feeling sensitivity, so they ignore much of their own feelings, (so why the h… would they care about someone else’s feelings!?) in this world that has an ages long war (from the dark ages) on sensitivity. Makes me wonder who of the past rulers started that, so they could get to rule, the way their bloodline circles still do today!? It’s so prehistoric. But since people have turned into Sheeple, anything even this prehistoric rulership shit goes.

Extraverted Thinking

Thinking, the process which runs to impersonal conclusions, holds the extraverted tertiary position. Used on an occasional basis, ENFPs may benefit greatly from this ability. Less mature and lacking the polish of higher order functions, Thinking is not well suited to be used as a prominent function. As with other FP types, the ENFP unwary of Thinking’s limitations may find themselves most positively mistaken.

* YEAH, feeling, Which actually bring us back to our finest sensory system, our (“banned”/rediculed) sensitivity.

Introverted Sensing

Sensing, the least discernible ENFP function, resides in the inner world where reality is reduced to symbols and icons–ideas representing essences of external realities. Under the influence of the ever-present intuition, the ENFP’s sensory perceptions are in danger of being replaced by hypothetical data consistent with pattern and paradigm. When it is protected and nourished, introverted sensing provides information about the fixed. From such firm anchoring ENFPs are best equipped to launch into thousands of plausibilities and curiosities yet to be imagined.

Perhaps the combination of introverted Feeling and childlike introverted Sensing is responsible for the silent pull of ENFPs to the wishes of parents, authority figures and friends. Or perhaps it’s the predominance of indecisive intuition in combination with the ambiguity of secondary Fi and tertiary Te that induces these kind souls to capitulate even life-affecting decisions. Whatever the dynamic, ENFPs are strongly influenced by the opinions of their friends. * Influenced within good reason.

(by Joe Butt and Marina Margaret Heiss – published under license)