ENFPs are enthusiastic, insightful, versatile, and tireless in pursuit of new possibilities.

They enjoy working on teams to bring about change related to making things better for people.

Extraverted Intuition with Feeling

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Initiate and promote ideas for people’s and potential

Are tireless in the pursuit of novel opportunities

Are resourceful and innovative in efforts to accomplish the nearly impossible

Like to celebrate and appreciate others

General Strengths

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Brief Description of ENFP

• Creative

• Curious

• Energetic

• Enthusiastic

• Expressive

• Friendly

• Imaginative

• Independent

• Original

• Restless

• Spontaneous

• Versatile

• THE INSPIRER• Enthusiastic Innovator• Champion• Journalist• Pied Piper• Discoverer Advocate

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• People are the product

• You can never be too close

• ENFPs give life an extra squeeze

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Personality Portraits

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POTENTIAL STRENGTHS

• New ideas and possibilities

• Enthusiasm and energy

• People skills

• Adaptability

• Creativity

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ENFP• Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full

of possibilities.

• Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see.

• Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciations and support, spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their verbal fluency.

• Alert to all the possibilities

• Original, individual, independent, but also extremely perceptive of the views of others

• Strong in initiative and creative impulse, but not so strong in completing projects

• Life likely to be a succession of projects

• Stimulated by difficulties and most ingenious in solving them

• Operate by impulsive energy rather than concentrated will power 27

• Tireless at what interests them, but find it hard to get other things done.

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• Hate routine

• Value inspiration above everything else and follow it confidently into all manner of opportunities, enterprises, ventures and adventures, explorations, researches, mechanical inventions, promotions and projects

• Versatile, often startlingly clever, enthusiastic, easy with people, and full of ideas about everything under the sun.

• At their best, gifted with insight amounting to wisdom and with the power to inspire.

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Force That Animates-----

• Is a Perceptive Energy---An Intuitive Vision of some possibility in the External World

• They feel charged with a mission to realize that possibility• The possibility has an irresistible PULL• It become their master and in service they may forget to eat

or sleep• They cannot rest until they get the genie out of the bottle• How ever once the genie is out -- it does not interest them

any more, as genie is no longer a possibility, it is a mere FACT

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Motivation

Spark of Energy

Making a difference throughinsightful and creative ideas thatencourage human development

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Type Dynamics

Applying logic

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Looking at larger picture

N

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FS

Considering peopleLooking at facts

Solve a problem by

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

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CAREER TRENDS• The most attractive occupations for ENFPs are

primarily oriented toward counseling and related professions, including teaching and religiouslyoriented positions.

• Also represented are occupations in the arts.

• ENFPs are attracted to careers where they can communicate with, and help foster the growth of others

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MOST ATTRACTIVE OCCUPATIONS

• Counselor • Psychologist • Teacher: Arts, Health, • Research Assistant • Trainer• Human Resources• Marketing Specialist• Writer or Editor • Musician or Composer • Social Scientist

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MOST ATTRACTIVE OCCUPATIONS

• Designer

• Artist/Actor

• Religiously Oriented Occupations

• Special Education

• Nurse

• Computer Professional

• Public Relations, Publicity

• Administrator: Education

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Occupations where the ENFP's

dominant function (Ne) is used most

Occupations where the ENFP's

auxiliary function (Fi) is used most

Counsellor

Trainer

Assistant

Secretary

Senior Manager

Researcher

Accountant/auditor/banker/economist

Designer

Homemaker

Entrepreneur/self-employed

Writer/editor

Psychologist

Careers/occupational advice/therapy

Human Resources

Project manager

Nurse

Technical specialist

Lawyer/attorney

Designer

Engineer

Professor/academic/lecturer

Artist/actor

Manager

Writer/editor

Forces

Trainer

Clergy/church worker

Counsellor

The jobs/occupations in both lists are

• Counselor

• Trainer

• Designer

• Writer/editor

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ENFPs are stubbornly loyal to their guiding principle ----

The Inspiring Possibility

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ENFPs (Intuitives) Lives Tend to be a ……….

Series of Projects

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If ENFP’s pursuit of authentic inspirations is completely blocked, they will feel imprisoned, bored and desperately discontent……….

They will almost always find a way out

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Two Serious Internal Dangers

1. They must not Squander their energies in a world full of possible projects, they must pick those that have potential value (CHOOSING)

2. Having Started, they must not Quit (PERSEVERANCE)

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FAMOUS ENFPs

ENFP• Franz Joseph Haydn,

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)Will RogersBuster KeatonTheodor "Dr." Seuss GeiselMickey RooneJames DobsonAndy RooneyCarol BurnettPaul HarveyElizabeth Montgomery

• Bill CosbyDom DelouiseDave ThomasLewis GrizzardI. King JordanMartin ShortMeg RyanRobin WilliamsSandra BullockRobert DowneyAlicia Silverstone