Extrovert-Intuitive-Feeling-Perceptual
- dynamic, enthusiastic, highly skilled with people
- affirming & gregarious
- exceptional talent for dealing with a variety of people, events & challenges (often simultaneously)
- stay open to a never-ending flow of alternatives in any situation
- like to be affirming to others
- may appear overly positive
- generally want to please others
- strong ability to see the potential in others & special sensitivity to what's going on with people around them
- usually easy for them to rally support for exciting ideas or causes
- may make more starts than finishes (sometimes don't show follow-through)
- resistant to categorizing & "putting people in boxes" ( and don't like to be easily labeled/categorized by others)
- effortlessly empathetic
- when absorbed by a project, may lose all sense of time
- have a tendency to turn "relaxation" into work even though like to be able to be playful with their work
- may be sensitive to criticism
- tendency to be test phobic even doing well academically & know the material, ENFPs may feel boxed in by fact-oriented exams that have only one "right" answer; usually do better on essay exams
- good at improvisation
- organization may not be a top priority (sometimes forget to "dot all the 'i's and cross the 't's")
- lead by their energy & enthusiasm
- can become so wrapped in the personal problems of people around them, that it drains their energies & distracts from their work/goals/agenda
- like variety in what they do
- value ethics & morals, and strive for the "greater good" for all
- trust their intuitions (decisions based solely on logic may not evoke their full commitment/energy)
- not troubled by the paradoxical
- typically adept communicators
- tend to be gracious & charming
- find meaning & significance in even the smallest event
- good cooperators/team players
- pay particular attention to authority figures' ethics, degree of caring & a good human being
- easily make the first move in building relationships