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Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The Constructive Use of Differences

Extraverion Intuition Thinking Perceiving - ENTP

Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people. Bored by routine, will seldom do the same thing the same way, apt to turn to one new interest after another. ~www.myersbriggs.org

Traits of an ENTP

ENTP traits word bubble inside human head outline

  • take initiative
  • encourage independence
  • enterprising
  • curious
  • challenging
  • spur others on
  • active
  • conceptual
  • strategic
  • assertive
  • creative
  • adaptive
  • enthusiastic innovators
  • analytical
  • theoretical
  • objective
  • clever
  • questioning
  • lively 
  • rational
  • outspoken
  • energetic
  • resourceful
  • independent
  • enjoy complex challenges

ENTP Stressors

ENTP stressors word bubble with outline of upside down human head

  • being told to do something unstimulating
  • isolation
  • shutting down my ideas
  • stubbornness
  • focusing on personal problems
  • dismissing my analysis of a problem
  • inefficiency
  • my competence is not respected
  • boring, mundane task work
  • deadlines
  • too many details