My Personality Profile

ENFP: The Creative Enthusiast

ENFP’s are spontaneous, creative, and optimistic.
 "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
ENFP’s love to get taken away by their imagination.  This imagination soars to great heights and knows no boundaries.  ENFP’s are good at expressing this, and it often captures and captivates others.
The ENFP is sought after, and helps open doors to the new: new experiences, possibilities, ideas and perspectives.
ENFP’s are very intriguing to others.  They have an independent nature and original minds, yet are people-friendly, and receptive to the needs of others.  But ENFP’s don’t typically stick around for long.  They are elusive, rarely committing to things, always adventuring, seeking new experiences.  ENFP’s’ enthusiasm coupled with their ingenuity, gift for ideas, and open nature make them fun and inspirational to be around.  Others naturally feel comfort around ENFP’s and often feel energized and enlightened after meeting with them.
Romantized, excitable, imaginative, and with a zest for meaningful adventure and experience, Wendy from Peter Pan is a good example of an ENFP.
ENFP’s have a nature about them that yearns to get the most out of life.  They enhance life, trying to get the most out of experiences and emotion.  They look for a good time, are good at creating a good time, and will press their limits in doing so.
ENFP’s typically have a spark about them.  Something that others feel but can’t explain.  They are truly independent individuals, often looked up to by others, often with their acquaintances walking away feeling better about themselves.  They have a laid-back, stylish, enjoyable demeanor that is often seen as being creatively cool and charismatic
"Mediocrity is the killer!"
In fiction ENFP’s are fun and venturesome, yet loyal; they are the kind of people you’d want to be friends with (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Corey from Boy Meets World).  They embody a romantized, excitable, imaginational zest for meanfingful adventure and experience (Wendy from Peter Pan, Tommy from Rugrats, Ferris Bueller).  As characters they are perceptive, expressive, and open-minded (Dharma from Dharma and Greg, Lady from Sex and the City).   
Singer/songwriter Alanis Morisette is a good representation of the deep, emotional, romantic side that sometimes shows through ENFP’s.
The 80s was a breath of fresh air for America.  The decadence of the late 70s brought in a need for new and creative modes of expression.  Life became colorful again.  An appreciation of the oddities and the different aspects of life arose.  The 80s was an upliftingly social, yet laid-back, open-minded era, probably reveled by ENFP’s.
“You can tell that ENFP’s really take life in, get what they can from it, and share it with others, and enjoy doing so.”
ENFP’s in fiction are typically funny, intriguing, imaginative, adventurous, and fun . . . often with a hint of mischief.   
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
ENFP’s are of the Idealist temperament.  Idealists are Romantic, Empathetic, Authentic, Creative, and Impassioned.  Idealists strive to be true to themselves while inspiring and bringing out the best in others. The ENFP is likely to feel deeply about certain causes is a true chamption in abounding support for their cause.  The personality types that share the Idealist Temperament are ENFJ, INFJ, ENFP, and INFP.
ENFP’s and ENTP’s have the dominant function of Extraverted Intuition (Ne).  Extraverted Intuition involves looking at possibilities and meanings behind things. ENFP’s have an intuitively felt appreciation of the human condition, and can be fun-loving, yet insightful and generous catalysts to others.
ENFP's are known to do things at the drop of a dime with intense spontaneity.  They will commit themselves to experiential activities (such as visiting another country, or perhaps even living there for a year) that others only daydream of, or wish they could do, were they not so tied down. ENFP’s can get very excited and into things and love to joyfully tell others about their experiences. It’s a magical world to the ENFP and they love to share it with others. Also with strong intuition, the ENFP is often able to see things that others can't, and will willfully and often successfully bring others into their realm of realization with excitement.

More on the ENFP

• Able to stretch new limits for themselves and others
• Like to open up new worlds of ideas and realities
• Open-minded and rarely judgmental
• Enjoy being unique
• Wants to make their world alive with their vivid and colorful fantasies
• Minds tend to wander
• Prefers not to get tied down in a routine schedule. 
• Believe that variety is the spice of life.
• Need to express themselves
• More likely than most other types to give people second chances
• Have a broad, global view of life (ENFP’s rarely forget the big picture)
• Typically good with fashion, and has their own personal, original style
• Can be very good at telling people what they want to hear
• Restless
• Romantic
• Open-minded
• Need and want change
• Colorful

Strengths

• Typically gets along well with others and in general is well liked
• Persuasive
• Good imagination
• Good with language and use of words
• Creative
• (Intuitive)
• (Insightful)
• Has a cool, (charismatic) quality that brings people in
• Good at making people feel comfortable
• Original
• Open to possibilities
• (Versatile)
• Energetic

 

Weaknesses

• Can be forgetful or absentminded
• May procrastinate
• Can get caught up in the moment and be impulsive
• May wait too long to make a decision
• May despise being tied down to a schedule
• Doesn’t like to be told what to do or be held from creative expression
• May spend money on impulse and be big spenders
• Has trouble finishing projects
• May not think things through, not thinking of, or ignoring, the consequences or needed details
• May have a short attention span

Famous ENFP's

• Adam Sandler
• Cher
• Wayne Brady
• MC Hammer
• Bill Cosby
• Tammy Faye
• Dr. Seuss
• Dave Mathews
• Bono from U2
• Alanis Morissette
• Dave Arquette
• Oprah Winfrey
• Barack Obama
• Mike Huckabee

Fictional ENFP ’s

• Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Phoebe from Friends
• Annie Kinsella (The wife from Field of Dreams)
• John Keating (The teacher from The Dead Poets Society)
• Wendy from Peter Pan
• Dharma from Dharma and Greg
• Tommy from Rug Rats
• Ferris Bueller
• Bob from What About Bob
• Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker’s character from Sex and the City)
• Corey from Boy Meets World

NF Idealist (ENFJ, INFJ, ENFP, INFP)

Romantic, (empathetic), authentic, creative, and (impassioned), Idealists strive to be true to themselves while inspiring and bringing out the best in others.
Some information on the NF Idealist:

• Have a need to live up to their high ideals
• (Empathetic)
• Tend to glorify others and life in general
• Well-trusted and cultivated (intuition)
• Often interested in the spiritual, having a strong affinity for the mystical and what cannot be seen by the eye
• As kids, often show their elaborate imaginations
• Good with the use of words - if not when speaking, in writing
• Strongly believes in certain causes
• Romantic
• Wants deep, meaningful relationships
• May trust others more than they should, sometimes to the point of naivety
• Often enjoys reading (from fantasy to poetry, to creative short stories, to religious texts)
• Appreciates the arts and imagination
• Appreciates the uniqueness of themselves and others
• (Natural conflict mediators with their strong insight and diplomatic nature)

Careers That Match My Type:

• activist
• actor
• advertising
• artist
• choreographer
• clergy/religious worker
• computer programmer, systems analyst
• computer animation, computer specialist, software designer
• corporate trainer/training coordinator
• counselor
• dean of students
• dietitian/nutritionist
• entertainer
• journalist/writer/poet/novelist
• learning specialist
• marketing
• (mediator)
• mental health professional
• musician
• pediatrician
• psychiatrist
• psychologist
• public relations
• school counselor
• scientist
• tour guide
• tutor
• youth services director