ENFP Traits - “The Inspirers”
Positive Traits:
- Fun loving & lots of fun to be around
- Free-spirited
- Deeply caring and concerned for others
- Very perceptive and insightful about people’s thoughts and motives – gifted at understanding others
- Friendly and open – people are drawn to them
- Warmhearted and genuinely kind
- Typically possess a great sense of humor
- Generally very funny
- Supportive and encouraging
- Good communicators
- Extremely motivational and inspirational
- Tend to bring out the best in others
- Affectionate and affirming
- Lively, dramatic, energetic, enthusiastic
- Their passion and enthusiasm are contagious
- Optimistic
- Typically loyal and dedicated
- Driven to help others and meet needs
- Always looking for the “perfect relationship”
- View life as a special gift and strive to make the most of it
- Broad range of skills, talents – good at almost anything that interests them
- Often have ability to “talk their way out of anything”
- Usually possess strong, consistent values that they adhere strictly to
- Need to feel that they are living their lives as their true selves and in accordance with what they feel is right
- Continually striving to achieve inner peace
- Emotionally excitable
- Often intense individuals
- Value and need alone time to sort things out in their minds
- Possess strong people skills – genuinely interested in others
- Place great importance on their personal relationships
- Flexible and easygoing
- Strong ability to intuitively perceive truths about people and situations
- Live in a world of exciting possibilities
- Are basically happy people
- Alert and sensitive – constantly scanning their environments
- Strong need to be independent – they resist being controlled or labeled
- Have no desire to control others and dislike the idea of doing so
- Charming
- Risk-takers
- Generally well-liked
Negative Traits:
- Tend to occasionally make serious errors in judgment –
when they apply their less developed judgment to their highly develop
intuitions, they may jump to the wrong conclusion
- Can, at times, be overly anxious and worrisome
- Tend to get bored easily
- Can be impulsive (menuruti kata hati)
- Prone to hold onto bad relationships for far too long
- Their enthusiasm may cause them to be unrealistic
- Not good with or interested in dealing with mundane daily tasks such as paying bills, cleaning, etc.
- Strongly dislike conflict and criticism
- May not pay enough attention to their own needs
- Continual search for the “perfect relationship” may cause them to change partners frequently
- May (falsely) come off as directionless wanderers to onlookers
- Tendency to not follow through on projects, usually because
they get excited about a new project and abandon the first for the
second – this may become a problematic cycle
- May be overly concerned with being liked
- Not good with detailed-related tasks
- Always seeing the possibility of what could be often causes them become bored with what actually is
(Sources: http://myersbriggspersonalitytypes.tumblr.com/aboutmbti)
