Tuesday 27 August 2013

MBTI: ENFJ Personality Portrait - The Givers

Continuing further from my last post on Introducing the MBTI Personalities, you can go back and read what each of the four letter combination means and take a free test on finding out what type you are here

ESTP - ESFP - ENFP - ENTP - ESTJ - ESFJ - ENFJ - ENTJ
ISTJ - ISFJ - INFJ - INTJ - ISTP - ISFP - INFP - INTP 

Extroverted - iNuition - Feeling - Judging

  In a nutshell, if you find that you associate the most with the ENFJ personality type, you are seen as the givers and helpers. ENFJs are hard workers who often see the good and the potential in others where they seek to bring that out from people. Usually they are very open to express their feelings and of the strong values that they have. They love to help others with guidance and encouragement and they do it well. ENFJs always seem to be friendly, very positive and when you combine that with their excellent communication skills, they can easily make new friends or connect well with people.

Working with people is a joy for them and people love to work with them especially when the ENFJs are in a leadership role. They show great empathy and understanding of others which creates such a loving and harmonious environment.

Going deeper, ENFJs are sensitive people with lots of emotion. They like to be liked by everyone thus, are prone to putting too much effort into pleasing others rather than themselves which isn't always a good thing. Criticisms and negativity generally don't sit well with them as they become disappointed or even hurt. They can have such strong idealistic views that they can be become unrealistic and naive when trying to bring it to realism. The imperfections of what is reality will be unsatisfying to them. ENFJs are too hard on themselves as they tend to put too much blame on themselves for not being able to make their fantasies real.

ENFJ Cognifive Functions

The Dominant Function of ENFJs is Extraverted Feeling, Fe. This is where they have a strong need to engage and connect with others. To make decisions based on feelings and be able to see the needs of others and adapt how to behave with them.

Their Auxiliary Function is Introverted Intuition, Ni. This supports their main core of Extraverted Feeling where they will internally go deeper in the meanings and ideas. To make reflections on the impressions of others and find ways to understand them to figure out how best to respond to their needs.

ENFJs Tertiary Function is Sensing, S, and is usually not as developed for majority of ENFjs. With a weak Sensing function, they can have difficulty dealing in present time with realities and facts.

Their Inferior Function is Introverted Thinking, Ti. ENFJs with low developed Ti will have trouble making proper judgments with their own objective reasoning and bring out an ugly side out of them.

* Notable ENFJs include: Oprah Winfrey, Martin Luther King Jr., Emma Stone, Denzel Washington.

How to Spot an ENFJ

You can typically tell someone is an ENFJ if the person is great at storytelling, someone who always checks in with everyone to see if they are having an enjoyable time in a social setting, always appear to be quite flirty with almost anyone, or someone who can't stop making sexual innuendos. Lastly, an ENFJ will probably hug you to death.



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