MBTI - again

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I just recently arranged a MBTI teambuilding session with my division and along with the session, I also did a MBTI assessment on my personality and preferences. The assessment showed that I am an ENTP. I thought I should just document down some of the pointers so that maybe people reading this may know me better. By the way I think the description does somewhat describe me but in the light that this measures preference, the other combination might well describe me as well...

By being an ENTP, fundamentally, it means that I have a preference in the four areas:

  • Extraversion: focus my attention on the outer world of people and things
  • Intuition: Take in information from patterns and the big picture and focus on future possibilities
  • Thinking: Make decisions based primarily on logic and on objective analysis of cause and effect
  • Perceiving: Like a flexible and spontaneous approach to life and prefer to keep my options open

ENTP

 At Their Best:

  • Life is a creative adventure full of exciting possibilities.
  • Keenly perceptive about people and insightful about the present and future
  • Wide range of feelings and intense emotions
  • Good at understanding how people and groups work and are persuasive and compelling in pursuing what is important to them
  • Adaptable

Characteristics:
  • Innovators, initiating projects and directing great energy into getting them under way
  • Stimulated by new people, ideas and experiences
  • Find meaning and significance readily and see connections that others don't
  • Likely to be curious, creative, imaginative, energetic, enthusiastic and spontaneous
  • Value harmony and goodwill
  • Adapt to others' needs and wishes when possible
  • Likely to be warm, friendly, caring, cooperative and supportive
  • Exceptional insight into possibilities in others and the energy and motivation to help actualize them
How others may see them
  • Personable, perceptive, persuasive
  • Enthusiastic, spontaneous, versatile
  • Giving and seeking affirmation
Potential areas for growth
  • May go from enthusiasm to enthusiasm, never committing the energy necessary to actualise their insights, or they may make overly personal decisions
  • May fail to take in enough information, lack trust in their own insights, be uncertain and accept others' perception too quickly
  • May become scattered and have trouble focusing, be easily distracted
  • Fail to follow through on a decision
  • Become rebellious, excessively nonconforming
  • Ignore deadlines and procedures
  • Not take care of details and routine required for implementing their inspirations
  • Overextend themselves - have trouble saying no to interesting possibilities and people
  • Fail to apply reason and logic to assess their inspirations and decisions

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