The Sixteen Types: ENTP 

Yeah that sounds like me, except there are two things people tell me to do for a living. Depending on where they've met me and how much they know about me, people have said I should either be a talk show host/news reporter or pursue a STEM career

Engineer_ 314 lol, I have been told, lawyer, journalist, and engineer. Right now, I am thinking software engineer.

§öphişt Yeah that's right. #hourofcode FTW

Nick Halverson omg same, so many times I've been told like 40 jobs to do

Yup! And every time you hear a new one and look into it for about 15 minutes you're completely convinced you'd be brilliant at it, subsequently get bogged down in the minutae of what needs to be done to get there and how to do it, then either go back to what you were thinking about doing in the first place or get inspired to do some wackadoo shit that's entirely unrelated to any of it. All in about 4 hours.

Gisol You’ve put into words what I’ve felt for a long time, that one of the reasons I’m so introverted in general is that if I said what I really thought and acted as I really want to, life would be very difficult for me. Maybe because I’m a female ENTP my tertiary Fe is stronger and so that’s why I’m better at holding back, lol.

True. I have a lot of bad blood with people for simply saying what I'm think about regarding them. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I think an ENTP needs to be scared into their subconscious to understand how they come off to people. ENTPs are not fearful people at all. I think it's important for an ENTP to understand what it's like to be on the other side of their ENTP-ness. They need to feel the anxiety, depression, and overall weakness out in the world. They need to be punished for their punishment. I think when an ENTP does this, they can truly see what other people are dealing with, and bring up that Fe tremendously. The ENTP will be more empathetic and be the empathetic ENTP people want to follow. They will know exactly what other people are dealing with, and then explain to others what they can do about it in a diplomatic way. That's when they can't stop making new friends. Some ENTPs like myself were scared of that. I felt like I had to create boundaries and I went too far. People started assuming I was dumber than I appeared. So I went straight Ti. I realized using my Ne for pessimistic outcomes was taking too much energy, and I'd rather use my Ne for possibilities. This also can probably be achieved with a DMT trip in a silent room, with your eyes closed.

You just put the whole thing in words!! May i borrow this sometimes??

pretty much me with anybody who has authority above me.. Me: but.. that's wrong... Authority figure: just fuckn do what i said

You should be God's advocate instead.

haha I didn't make the expression, but believe me being an apologist is one of my endeavors.

Andrew Black me 2 bro lol, least we ain't been socratized yet "Socrates was put to death for his insesint questioning" 😂

It gets me into trouble even today. My mother (INFP) does not appreciate my advocacy skills. 36yrs old and still in trouble with my mum.

Yep, especially when it comes to politics. I am simultaneously able to understand the view points of white nationalists alt-right people and anti-capitalist SJW liberals.

Maybe you should move to America where you'll be seen as a lady then :P

Johnny Danger I've seen American women protesting and presenting news headlines. They are far too emotionally charged and ignorant. :P

Dilara Ç it's sad but I totally agree... Not all women here are complete embarrassments however. The ones you saw on TV are a small percentage trust me.

Dilara Ç Don't believe everything you see in the media... People who act that way are hardly relevant... There are 319 million people in the US so even if 3 million act that way that's less than 1% of our population... I've never even met anyone that acts that way. I love America, wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

Johnny Danger its real, and the hatred against whites is incredibly real.

+UDT116 lmao

I'm an INTP and I disagree.

Exactly, me too.

and very humble

Think you're in the wrong part of town there. We're all humble flowers flourishing from the tears of other people's broken sense of enlightenment.

+Thomas Coy If we're going down the dictatorship route, why not full on become ruler of Earth? It's the logical next step up, really.

+MissingThrope so hard! I tried this one a couple times, starting over is the biggest bummer :p

MissingThrope the bankers already own the worlds finances.

I mean if you think the world isn't going the way it should then yes, you could try that. FYI, Mao Zedong was an ENTP

but are they ENTPs or even INTPs? If not, who's up for wrecking them?

Dam thas cool. I'm an ENTP too

What happened to her

Entps are just a character class in the matrix

erik bundersen deadass -from an ENTP

lol true

Yes, I like having someone like that around me; it is rather like being attached to a parachute rather than just jumping; you still can fly but live to have the experience again.

By all means!

Haha I did the exact same thing (ENFP).

I'm the same ... if something interested me I can't stop studying this

Legit what I’m doing now(I’m almost done though(I think))

Oskar Förberg Wrong. He's talking about us, we love that.

+Snobby Gamer Agreed. Still slow though.

+Snobby Gamer Word. :-)

+Oskar Förberg Barely finished your sen-

+Snobby Gamer Exactlyyyyyy!

Christina Park in search for an infj mate! 😍

Thank you, we love you too random citizen. lol By ENTP

True that, its more about your values and stuff. ENFP's also get mistaken for T types, because they have tertiary Te which is more externally apparent, while auxiliary Fi is hidden and thus their sensitivity is hidden but still there. I am quite sensitive and emotional though, just not all the time and I don't always share it with others.

I am cold as ice about most of things, but when i feel that someone is treated wrong, then i can be very emphatic, it is in me, but it needs to be a good reason for me to dig that deep.

@@Northernliiights thats true entp behaviour

ENFP argue different than ENTP, they tend to lose temper earlier and aren’t as strategic as ENTP in building arguments for different phases of the conversation. My sister is ENFP. She understands my thoughts very well, but is not as strategic in argument, same with close ENFP friend.

magister343 well figuratively

I agree two sides are boring and mundane. I'd rather look at the structure of some galaxy of stars, or I guess the diamond he spoke of earlier which has multiple facets.

Cause people are bitch niggas that would rather bury their heads in the sand

Considering the world can mostly be summed-up as harsh and insensitive, I think that means you're / we're just good at pattern recognition and don't lie to yourself like most do when they want to feel at ease with the world. Truth hurts.

Kristian Gali There is nothing wrong with debate. Ultimately, the ENTP is trying to to open upa discussion, and debate is a fun way to do that. Other ENTPs might just "talk", then the idea comes being that they encouraged conversation. Whatever fuels Ne though.

I take a Socratic approach to debate and tend to ask difficult questions rather than play devils advocate or mock people.

as expected from an entp of course😂

+Brandon Richards Great question: what I meant there was more to do with perspectives in general, though especially in areas emphasizing critical thinking and philosophy. The ENTP doesn't like dogma being set down without discussion or opportunity for considering it further and getting more information from it. The 'funeral dirge' simply means that any time someone tries to make an idea an unquestionable dogma, the ENTP 'fears' metaphorically for the continued life of that idea, not wanting it to be made a set, stone statue. So as for the future, and the idea of marriage, I don't think that necessarily need to relate. It is not as though ENTPs are incapable of conviction or something. I know of an older ENTP who is married and has ten kids. In his case, he simply explores all the facets of marriage by having so many kids and so forth. The idea of marriage itself need not be considered a dogma. That's what I think anyway -- I don't know if that helps?

+Brandon Richards As an ENTP I agree with Michael's characterization of the funeral march. For me it is really, well if something is known for sure and if something is laid in stone per say, well then there is no more need to leave room for new information about it. I don't like ever falling on an issue or an idea or whatever 100%. I mean we have to make decisions and such, and form ideas and impressions etc., but I always like to leave room that I don't know everything fully about something yet (and I think with a lot of things I will never know them fully and find the ultimate "truth" of sort during my life) and that anything is up to be changed or modified with new information. That is what makes finding new information about something so exciting, who knows where it will lead me. I feel most comfortable to be sure of something maybe only 90%, then I can always leave room to incorporate new information and maybe change how I see something if needed. If something is proved in some way to be knowable as truth 100%, well then I kind of say goodbye to ever giving it any real thought again, it is kind of a funeral for something I thought was interesting that I was liking to ponder, but when there is nothing left to ponder well it is kind of the end of something for me at least as to occupying my thoughts, and I may have liked the exploration into something occupying my thoughts, more so than actually figuring it out 100%. I think the being a parent/getting married stuff, well of course ENTPs have kids and get married. I think they generally have fallen on the idea that they "think" that these things are going to be right for them and then do them - but they probably weren't 100% sure (but who really is in these areas sometimes some things are a leap of faith). An ENTP doesn't need to be 100% sure to act. But IMO an ENTP is the type that with marriage, even if they find themselves satisfied in their marriage, is not going to think 100% that marriage is for everybody or that is the best state for man to be in on the whole in the romantic. They may question still ideas of marriage which in no way affect their view of marriage for them in the moment now sort of thing. The types if asked if their marriage was a good thing at the end of their life would be sure it seemed to work for me I have no regrets, but if asked based on their experience if marriage is the best thing for mankind well they would say I surely wouldn't know and would have thought through a lot on the issue despite being happily married themselves.

+Brandon Richards I am also an ENTP and have done well in college, I ended up here in Oxford, but not in the traditional sense. I have an A- GPA without as much studying as my peers. Although, I do recognize that what held me back from a 4.0 was discipline. I know our type struggles with discipline and following through with our ideas and it is very accurate. I either need to find a way to become more disciplined or find ways to study by other means. I would really like the take from other ENTPs to see how you all handle the poor discipline aspect of our personality type.

***** Still happens to me today! Knowing the differences between personality types is a great tool for educators for sure..

No offense dude , but I thought you were gay when I glanced at comments and saw your pic. ... I am straight (not gay,)..but, being told by mbti pros after a workshop for my work , I'm an entp the first thing i thought was "how interesting reading a gay persons perspective on an mbti type (even though I don't relate and I still think imbti maybe a pseudo-science, self fulfilling prophecy stuff, but mbti pros say I'm an entp so I question everything and look at all options, , supposedly) and at the end you talk about kids and marriage etc etc and I gave up trying to understand .... My point being , if there is a point, is you profile pic looks really gay, which is great if you are ..:

Indeed! I listened to this through headphones!

Tyler Donhardt You've probably read this quote before, but if not I thought it would be interesting for you: "In the introverted attitude sensation is definitely based upon the subjective portion of perception. What is meant by this finds its best illustration in the reproduction of objects in art. When, for instance, several painters undertake to paint one and the same landscape, with a sincere attempt to reproduce it faithfully, each painting will none the less differ from the rest, not merely by virtue of a more or less developed ability, but chiefly because of a different vision; there will even appear in some of the paintings a decided psychic variation, both in general mood and in treatment of colour and form." (Jung, 'Psychological Types', p. 374).

great video though

Like his videos too. It's pretty common in these sort of psychological videos. You have to sound like you know what you're talking about so why not write an essay first and then read it on a video right :P I mean... that's how it is though. I'd be impressed to see a camera on one of these guys while they talk about these deeply intense subjects. Would subscribe immediately!

Bueller? Bueller?.... I love it 😁

UDPATE: Now I'm considering marketing alongside computer programming. Oh boy. (sighs)

Engineer_ 314 I can understand this so much! I really don't know what to do later, there are just too much opportunities and I know that I become bored so easily so I must find the perfect place for me

Do you wanna talk about it more...?

lol. dont worry you are young. you'll get wiser. spend more time with good friends. maybe try brazillian jiu jitsu. its saving my life. lol :}

josh poland that sounds like a great idea! haha!

What kind of issues? If it's something in the lines of your attention span, patience (or most likely the lack of it), fearing you have ADD/ADHD, or just concerned about not getting any work done, then that's natural for ENTPs. (I can say that since I an ENTP myself)

Johnny Danger It's good to know you've finally found a safe niche for your own well-being and personality. Now, to address two issues you've mentioned - the advanced diction choice and you're career passions. I'm surprised there could be THAT many people around you that would not accept hearing any advanced vocabulary or signs of intellect. That is the definition of ignorance. But I can respect your uneasy feelings about feeling like you don't fit in since I've faced this dilemma myself a few years ago. For me, reading the text of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, which shows just how dangerous it is to conform to other people's beliefs instead of your own. Now about your career path. I believe engineering is one of the most privileged subjects to get involved with. (Business and politics are pretty close, but there's some minute details where I get a bit turned off from them.) The thing about engineering is it's the closest to real-life magic and wizardry since, if you have the know-how, you can create systems that could potentially fulfill the needs of millions, or even billions. (BTW, what kind of engineering did you work on?)

Nihilism is the active rejection of moral and religious ideals and seeing no point to life. I don't see how one could logically argue or through rationality demonstrate the need or place of religion and morality as we understand it in modernity and if there is no transcendent metaphysical purpose to life which I can't see how one could come to the view that there is one through rationality or empiricism then we have no significance any greater than a parasite. I'd find it difficult to believe one is ardently rational and logical, and doesn't find Nihilism to be the only credible non sentimental view point on life devoid of any metaphysical or irrational meanderings.

I've studied nihilism extensively in my major--so I don't need an explanation. I guess that's part of what makes me an ENTP. Just because you find it to be an ideal explanation does not mean everyone will. Nihilism is a popular perspective, but it's difficult to apply it's philosophy to real life directly. Moral ideals are a regular part of social norms. Everyone believes in a right or wrong regardless of what he or she says. Nihilists believe they are more right that non-nihilists. There is no way around that. What trips some people up are trivial things such as cultural relativism. "Some burn their dead, some bury their dead, and some eat their dead." While some cultures may handle the death or a friend or family member in one way, other cultures may handle the corpse in a way that is considered to be wildly inappropriate or morally wrong. However, each culture in this example is trying to handle their loved ones in a respectful manner according to their cultural norms. The same can be applied to sub-cultures within a society. Each human strives to do what is "right" or "good". There are no humans that do "bad" things for the sake of doing things that are wrong. Some may do "bad" things for the rush of adrenaline or the good feeling that results from doing "bad" things. But no one does such things for the sake of the bad feeling that may come afterwords. Though nihilism embraces inconsistencies and non-conformity, I say what I explained alone is too much consistency to persuade me. Nihilistic writings are an interesting read, but the actual application does not hold the water.

pezbrownie You may have studied it, but if you think every person strives for good than you know not of the indifference that a Nihilistic existence brings. It's not a life style, but a conclusion. Cultural relativism is just a weak explanation of an inability to explain that there is no real morality, but social convention and idealism.

I was also pointing out that people aim for pleasure since pleasure at the very least contains a fraction of good. There is no circumstance in which someone aims for pain for the sake of pain. In cases of self-mutilation or cutting for example, the individual is either inflicting pain on him or herself for the sake of relieving themselves from the emotional pain of their current situation. Another common reason is that the individual is suffering depersonalization and aiming to feel something. This quick fix is bringing a temporary sense of pleasure. I don't really see how useless metaphors can apply to the concrete examples I've thought of. If you can give me a handful of examples, that might be more sufficient.

Pleasure is simply a neurophysiological phenomena dictated by the release of neurotransmitters in the brain. It is no more than a conglomeration of neurological pathways, as is the bulk of human habit and personality. In which, pleasure as a mechanism is subjected to plasticity, meaning it changes over time with habit. Implying that what one may find pleasurable today through environmental selection and his choice he will not find pleasurable tomorrow. Therefore, how can pleasure be even remotely considered as good as it is not discriminate and impossible to clearly define, and like much else is subject to social convention and personal belief, all with in the psyche of the person. Pleasure is no more real than some ideological notion. You may say you take pleasure in this, or they take pleasure in that, but it is no real good as it nothing but a word that we use to describe what cause high levels of dopamine in the individual. Further, if human simply aim for pleasure, which from a scientific stand point is completely amoral, then how are they any different from a sparrow or chimp? If they too are bound by their search for good in primitive neurological phenomena that is no more unique to you or any other vertebrate, then it certainly doesn't demonstrate that people are any better than the beast of the fields. Why should one accept that pleasure is really is anything other than metaphysical ideology that no one has ever experienced? If pleasure contains some fraction of good, then can we really know good as it can be clearly demonstrated is unique to the individual? " In cases of self-mutilation or cutting for example, the individual is either inflicting pain on him or herself for the sake of relieving themselves from the emotional pain of their current situation. Another common reason is that the individual is suffering depersonalization and aiming to feel something."- You talk as if feeling is some sort of metaphysical phenomena, and as if emotion aren't just neurochemical levels in the brain. Further, why is pleasure considered good? Pleasure is an imbalance of neurochemical levels in the individual, ultimately it is an extreme in animal behavior, and only human beings willingly seek to be drunk and stupid to feel this chemical imbalance. More so, this drunken mind as you call pleasure only blinds the individual in the scenario you state, never really emancipating the individual from pain, but only delaying it and in some case prolonging it. Not giving the individual to seek any real resolution if there is one. In this sense pleasure is not some good, but indeed evil, as any moralist will say. My point is ultimately this, that there is no morality, and no logical reason to accept these gross ideological notions. Men are no different than animals, we live we die. There truly is no point to life if all we seek is pleasure.

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Now gonna check out "Jung and Derrida in Biology and Sociology: a conversation with Ilya Dubovoy".

Earth lover I know the struggle but in case you’re still alive what did you choose?

***** By all means, how does it? ;o

***** People get their types confused all the time mate. This is a little tangental, but I've seen perceivers who don't understand the functions mistake themselves to be judgers just because they like to be organized.

Nathan Donnelly ;o damn it! i wanna understand this whole subject area more!

This may be of help...albeit in a negative sense. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gZsiK96lDow.html

According to CelebrityTypes you're right on both of them: Adam is ENTP, Jamie is ISTJ. Man, typing like a boss! :) www.celebritytypes.com/quotes/jamie-hyneman.php

Michael Pierce thx^^ i'm wondering about Kari, she seems to be an extravert, not sure on the others but she might be a perceiver., and..if i had to say about feeling or thinking i'd have to say..feeling com to think of it, but i'm truly not sure. intuitive or sensing is always a hard one if it isn't very blatant in the character intjforum.com/showthread.php?t=68212 this link here says she's an ENFP, which would make me really proud because i really admire that woman^^

Haitchpeasauce hehe, that's what I was thinking somewhat.

Maybe if the balloon was gelatinous then it wouldn’t pop.

It would still pop.. havent you ever cut into jello? Its not very durable. Maybe a combination of rubber and silicone.. or you could use the concept of how you can stick a needle into those vials that they use for CBC's etc and they wont leak because it sort of closes back up..... or maybe make a rubber that hardens after it expands..

@Kelsea Dawn If the rubber balloon were filled with a gas, then you'd be correct. However, you seemed to have missed the part where he mentioned filling it with a solid. At that point it's less of a balloon and more of a rock but still it isn't being damages by the rock.

if we face the balloon on the other side, and let go of our "idea balloon's" knot, the air (which would be our ACTUAL idea) would blow through the "reality thumbtacks"... so itd be like we "blew" reality out with our "ideas".. instead of letting them pop it... we technically own that balloon/idea, so we can pretty much do what we want with it

To the first question: the answer is "of course". They may be, from an INFP perspective, extremely frustrating about it, but that's just because these types process information differently. The ENTP is not likely to express their love in poetry or even declare it, because they don't consciously think in terms of deep love, at least not usually. That doesn't mean they don't still experience deep love, its just dealt with differently and expressed differently. John Stuart Mill, whom I believe was an ENTP, actually had a nervous breakdown in his early twenties because his upbringing had only emphasized and made use of his dominant ENTP strengths, but not the rest of him as a person, meaning he couldn't deal with the feeling aspects of real life, feelings of deep love and friendship and awe. It was only after a few years of recovery that he learned how to better incorporate that into himself. But he never stopped being an ENTP, only an immature ENTP. To the second question: on matters of morality, this personality system cannot say a word. There have been both evil ENTPs and ultra-good ENTPs, because how one processes information does not directly bear on what a person does, only important elements in how they go about doing it. So I could suggest how an ENTP would probably back stab someone, if that particular ENTP decided to back stab, but I can't say that ENTPs are more likely to back stab, even if some statistic supported it, because for me it is the definitions and principles involved that are important: empirical data will always be contingent on unreliable present factors.

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I am old, took MB test 3 times in my life, same outcome definitely an ENTP, thought for a while maybe I am an introvert because of my habit I share with Sokrates. Don't forget ENTPs are really ambiverts, much depends on an individual's life situation and circumstances. Whenever I just can't stand the inanity of the people/world around me I do that very deliberately; I can literally stop in the middle of a sentence to someone and am driven to leave, get away to home, a safe place, where I don't even have to see anyone. Then I go into my own thoughts. When I emerge, i hr., one day, a week, I am sorted out again. It was hard when I had to go to a regular job, I always preferred self-employed.

He also mispronounced Richard Feynman. But that is clearly not Rose McGowan! Lol

Cliche. Maybe those people didn't find the video interesting or maybe michael pierce was talking too slow. But yeah I do have an ISTJ brother who doesn't like this stuff, so maybe your right.

Edotter You made this statement a long time a go but i'll reply anyway! I think it's to do with our natural comfort within confrontation and debate, and our ability to apathetically play the role of devils advocate too well. Being in a relationship with someone who cannot respectively challenge us or make adequate rebuttals or even take offense, would just be to frustrating. We usually are very blunt and it take a particular type of person to tolerate that. And who better than another ENTP?

smoothops627 Well, the best I personally can offer is the first few pages of Chapter X in Jung's "Psychological Types", where he goes over this somewhat briefly, and essentially says the personality type seems to be an inborn thing, which can be altered only at the expense of the child's mental health. I believe he does talk about development of psychology in children elsewhere, but I am not familiar enough with that aspect of his work because it does not touch directly on typology. I open the question up to anyone else who can help smoothops627 out?

smoothops627 And glad you liked the video! Thank you!

just be as honest with your self as you can be you should already know what is most important to you and which type you acctually are when i was younger i was typed at enfp but through more self discovery i found out i was an entp

Stop listening to those labels. That's my advice. They will hold you back. Just like beliefs.

Trouter Smith I've gotten several comments about me misrepresenting induction and deduction as related to Te and Ti, so I'm fairly certain you're right and I have mixed up my terms. If anything, I'll be refraining from describing Te and Ti as "inductive" and "deductive" respectively, particularly because however you define them the thinking functions can't be defined by those forms of logic: at most they can be related to each other. The core idea is that Te uses objective facts to formulate a principle or worldview and work from there, but ultimately is more comfortable working with facts and drawing conclusions from facts, while Ti uses "subjective" facts, meaning logical conceptions in the mind which may or may not be directly inspired from some objective facts, which it works with to form the nuanced and complex systems you mentioned, which is why I've related it to deduction, simply because I understand it to be more comfortable working with the abstract principles, theorizing and postulating and figuring out structures to apply to reality, but can have trouble when actually doing said applying to reality and having to account for all the objective facts and whether they fit the theories like they originally thought. Which I'm understanding is not really induction or deduction.

Michael Pierce An analogy that I've come to use is that Te starts with states of reality / fact-sets. Let's envision these as islands. Te operates by using theory as a bridge between these fact-islands - say the current situation and a projected state. Theory's used whether this presumption is reasonable. Ti (in INTPs at least - it'll probably be more specific and contextual in ISTPs) is like a spider living in a huge web or scaffolding around the world. The thought resides in the web - facts are used to make the web a good depiction of the world, to make sure it's represented properly. So if a Ti type starts from a few facts, and derives a principle from them he then builds a web-system and sees if it needs to be corrected much. No? Probably a good system. Yes? Uh, oh. A Te type, given a principle, would try to see if it leads from one island to another, ie if it's good for building bridges. The thought is in the states the system settles in, the theory is for moving about.

Sangam Swadik La Campanella -- I always list the music at the very end of the video.

No No No... You got it wrong ;) Let's say I get a new coin I've never seen before. I get interested of it, glance it throughout and throw it away, after all it was just a small penny. THEN I start thinking about what money is anyways and quickly progress into economical theories and quantities of money.

As an ENTP, I complicate everything for myself. As far as internally making subconscious rules or conditions to follow. It's frustrating and difficult to explain.

Derek Townsley Same problem as myself man, I mean at 10th Grade, I need 6 Pages to do an 1:30h test, lmao. At least I get insanely good grades... But at portuguese ( my native ), man it downgrades to a 50-60% in tests, :/

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I paused and came down to the comment section lol

Marco i didnt even pause it lol

Wilson is definitely not ENFP, but I'm still undecided. In terms of their relationship dynamics they should be the ENTP-INFJ architypal relationship. Like the Devil-Jesus or cat and mouse relationship which is how I describe it to myself. But I'm still on the fence as to what cognitive functions these characters are actually portraying.

Long Unstrung change the video speed. You’ll thank me later.