Life as an ENFP

The thought of thinking that four categories can completely describe who I am seems weird to me. More than seven billion people are on the planet and every one is completely different. Some people make the comparison that people are like snowflakes but I think it is even more amazing than that. Not only are we different from each other as a whole, every little quirk that we each have that makes us different is significantly different than any quirk anyone else has. It just astounds me. I know this test in no way is supposed to tell me what kind of person I am. It is just a guide to show how you tend to handle things in different situations. With all that being said...the test was pretty accurate.

My main preferences were Extraversion, Intuition, Feeling and Perceiving. I guessed all of them correctly except for extraversion. I had always thought of myself as shy person that doesn't usually initiate communication. I tend to wait for someone to start a conversation and then I let loose with everything was swimming around in my head. Once I read why they placed me as an extrovert, it made quite a bit of sense. It said I was a receiver rather than an initiator and I chose to be more private than self revealing. Both of those make a lot of sense to me. The reason I am an extrovert is because I scored relatively high towards extraversion in joining groups, interaction and enthusiasm. Overall, I think the test nailed it on the head. Looks like I was an Extrovert the whole time and didn't even know it.

I leaned heavily towards Intuition in every category. I had fives in intuition for both abstract and imaginative. I completely agree with that. I find myself constantly analyzing everything and then asking the question "What if..." I found myself doing this one time when my sister used the phrase word vomiting. The normal person would just laugh and move on...but not me. I spent a good twenty minutes thinking about what word vomit would look like if it was a literal thing. I came to the conclusion that you would suddenly feel sick during a conversation and then some embarrassing or private phrase would slip out. I thought it was hilarious, my sister thinks I'm crazy. I may be too abstract and imaginative for my own good because I just realize I went on a long tangent about word vomit. I guess this test is pretty accurate.

I am a F instead of a T even though three preferences were towards T (including a 3 for questioning) and only two towards F (both of them were only a 1). I guess I have tendencies for both sides in each category. This is about how I base conclusions so it makes sense that I am both a thinker and a feeler. I think that every situation is different and therefore requires a different type of solution. I like to take everything I possibly can into account before making my decision. I think that's what the results are trying to show.

Finally, I got perceiving instead of judging. This one was extremely lopsided towards perceiving. The only category that I wasn't in perceiving was my 1 towards methodical. Every description of perceiving fits me almost perfectly. I'm very easygoing, flexible, motivated by pressure and spontaneous. I feel that when you make concrete plans you already ended countless activities that could have been better than the plans you made. I think every second is spontaneous and important so I like to let life come at me and lead me where it wants me to go. I understand this method isn't for everyone. I still make sure everything gets done when it's supposed to, I just don't map out exactly how or when it will get done. To me, spontaneity is the spark of life. I hate having pre-made plans because most of my favorite memories happened at the spur of the moment.

Overall, I don't think I was giving this test as much respect as I should have. It was fairly accurate in describing my tendencies. I'll use these results to remember what my strengths and weaknesses are as a leader and grow from them.