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ENTP 
ENTP 

The Charismatic Thinker

  • Friendly and talkative

  • Warm and affectionate

  • Have high energy

  • Curious toward anything new, different and exciting

  • Creative, imaginative and innovative

  • Insightful, see possibilities everywhere and are energized by talking about them and sharing them with the people around them

  • Confident

  • Humorous

  • Have a strong drive to learn 

  • Driven to understand why the world is as it is 

  • Logical and analytical

  • Competent, likes challenging everyone around them

  • Enjoy debates

  • Naturally sceptical 

  • Only convinced by rational reasoning and logic

  • Flexible and adaptable

  • Easily distracted and bored with routine

  • Hate inconsistencies, quick to point out an unfair situation

  • Disorganized , have messy surroundings

  • Have difficulty making choices

  • Knowledgeable – they love learning new and interesting things.

  • Quick thinkers – they have tremendously flexible minds.

  • Original – they are able to think out of the box to generate new, original ideas.

  • Excellent brain-stormers – they enjoy analysing problems from every angle to find the best solution

  • Charismatic – their confidence , quick thought and humour is charming , entertaining and informative at the same time.

  • Energetic – they have seem to have endless energy for socialising and learning.

  • Very argumentative – they like to argue with others , leading to a great deal of tension.

  • Insensitive – being so rational, they often disregard other's feelings and push their debates well past other’s tolerance levels.

  • Intolerant – either a suggestion is rational or they won’t bother about it.

  • Can find it difficult to focus – they get bored too easily.

  • Dislike practical matters – they are interested in what could be, like ideas and plans , and despise hard details and day-to-day operations.

At their best

  • Ingenious and capable problem solvers

  • Have enormous energy to change the world for the better, driven by an innate sense of fairness and an ability to see past the obvious to the novel

  • Can be charismatic leaders, inspiring others with their eloquence and quick thinking minds

  • Funny and witty friends, enterprising, ambitious workers who constantly seek new challenges and higher levels of knowledge

  • Can learn to temper some of their impulsive tendencies and become independent and successful innovators.

ENTPs as Children and Students

  • Alert, active , and squirmy little babies who quickly become busy little monkeys, ready to climb on or off anything, and are eager to try to do things for themselves

  • Eager to make contact and hungry for human interaction

  • Often perform with enthusisasm to get reactions from adults

  • Usually well liked and tend to have a large group of friends

  • Enjoy group activities and are eager to volunteer to be the leader

  • Like being busy and outdoors and are rarely afraid of getting dirty or reluctant to try new things

  • Have vivid imaginations

  • Easily bored and always in search of a new challenge or source of stimulation

  • ​Love word games, puns and plays on words

  • Love reading and being read to

  • Competitive by nature

  • Like games of all kinds, esp challenging ones

  • Girls are not interested in playing girly toys as their friends may be

  • Seem to have an urgency to push forward and grow up quickly

  • Curious and spontaneous children

  • Like surprises and are usually able to deal with unexpected changes in plans

  • May do very well academically, but demonstrate little effort

  • Only willing to put in effort into a project that they have a great deal of control in designing or in subjects where they like and are inspired by the teacher

  • Like creative subjects or units, preferring those dealing with science and theoretical concepts

  • ​​Described as charming and popular

  • Have a knack for making people laugh, have a sarcastic sense of humour

  • May like to surprise or even shock people

  • More energized when doing something with an audience

  • Love sports 

  • Love being involved in school

  • Many interests and eager to try new experiences

  • Begin to find out where his/her special talents lie

  • Love classroom debates and take a stand on issues they think are unfair

  • Full of creative and inventive ideas

  • Readily able to see the big picture in any issue or discussion

  • Able to point out patterns and connections between people or things

  • See themselves as special and pride themselves on their individuality 

  • Have an innate sense of enterprise, motivated by earning money

  • May hate babies and children younger than themselves

  • Have desire to grow up quickly ; press for extended bedtimes and more freedom to go places, stay home alone or even talk about boyfriends and girlfriends while still in elementary school​

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  • Continue to demonstrate their excellent reasoning and learning skills in school , but some still may not care about academic performance

  • Usually very popular teenagers with a huge group of friends

  • Have active romantic lives

  • Often involved in a variety of activities, sports and interests and seem to be always on the go

  • Love the limelight and are often drawn to the theater or other performances on the stage or the playing field

  • Very individualistic

  • Expresses their creativity in their choice of clothing or unusual hairstyles

  • Clever, creative and nonconventional

  • May find an early and avid interest in politics

  • Have very clear and organised thinking

  • Don’t take arguments personally, and their easygoing good nature usually reappears instantly

  • Wait until the very last minute to start and finish projects and still manage to get good grades

  • Resist any outside measures of attempted control, don’t care about external standards or emotional appeals

  • Have great confidence in their ability to improvise or put forth just enough effort to still get by

  • Content to live in disorganized, even chaotic , physical surroundings

  • See them as the creative, competent and resourceful people they are

  • Encourage, support and accept their unique and sometimes quirky approaches to solving problems

  • Allow them to take reasonable risks, try unconventional things, and discover the outer limits of their world

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