Career Advice Talk

What’s Your Personality Type: ENTP?

13th August, 2009 - Posted by Robin Ogden -

I always enjoy reading about the different personality types.  I think so much of what we enjoy doing in our careers can be found inside our personality and so many people have never even discovered “what type they are”.  For instance…are you an ENTP?  That is the acronym for Extraverted/Intuitive/Thinking/Perceiving according to Myers-Briggs and in Paul and Barbara Tieger’s book “Do What You Are“, approximately 4 - 6 percent of the American population are ENTP’s.  Are you one?  According to Tieger - ENTP’s are very clever and good at a lot of things.  They are extremely enterprising and “fascinated with new ideas”.  They also consider that most rules and regulations are meant to be “bent, if not broken”.  ENTP’s can be quick talkers and also “blunt and tactless in their ready criticism of others”, and while they can be charming funny and entertaining they also have some blind spots and can be viewed as insincere.   On the brighter side ENTP’s have “strong initiative and strive to turn their ideas into reality”, they are “inquisitive, versatile, adaptable, and resourceful in solving challenging and theoretical problems.”  Does this sound like you? Or perhaps you are one of the other types…ENFP, ISTJ, INTP, ENTJ…the list goes on.  So, take a short quiz and discover your type …have some fun getting to know yourself better!

P.S.  I’m an ENFP…look out - “anything’s possible”!