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In this episode, Joel and Antonia dive deep into the needs and desires of the ENTJ personality type.
In this podcast on the ENTJ personality type you’ll find:
- It’s tough to get to know the real ENTJ. There are a lot of layers.
- Napoleon was most likely an ENTJ.
- ENTJs are rewarded by society because their kind of leadership is honored by this world.
- Female ENTJs are often not received well because of imposed gender roles.
- ENTJs get the job done.
- They have a lot of perceived confidence. It often appears like nothing rattles them.
- Most of the answers we got on the survey were very short.
- There’s a sense that they can’t slow down.
- If they don’t feel confident they are good at ignoring it. Lack of confidence doesn’t serve them.
- They have a tendency to overvalue templates that work and never question whether they need to be changed.
- The driver process for ENTJs is Extraverted Thinking that we nicknamed “Effectiveness.”
- Effectiveness is fast. It doesn’t question. It just keeps moving.
- What happens when you’re wrong?
- The co-pilot is introverted learning process called Introverted Intuition that we have nicknamed “Perspectives.”
- Perspectives encourages ENTJs to not just assume their observations are accurate. It asks, “Is there a better way?”
- Napoleonic warfare is a good example of Effectiveness doubling down and not adapting to new warfare strategy.
- The 10-year-old process is Extraverted Sensing we have nicknamed “Sensation.”
- If an ENTJ doesn’t slow down and focus on the co-pilot Perspectives, they will synthetically keep themselves limited. Avoiding the big game and not fulfilling their potential.
- When ENTJs have some past wounding there is an instinct to avoid the inner world. They fear the Intuitive Introverted world. They worry about the pain they may find there.
- The 3-year-old process is Introverted Feeling that we have nicknamed Authenticity.
- This is about managing emotions. It asks, “What’s going on for me?”
- There’s a sense of avoidance out of fear of the inner work. The more ENTJs avoid their inner world the less they will reach their full potential.
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This is such a prefect description of how my mind works, like only a fellow ENTJ could explain.
Antonia, you probably read Joe’s explanation of his mind and thought to yourself, “yeah, I knew that! I know ENTJ’s!” But you don’t fully understand. Nobody truly does.
This comment is quite long because I really wanted to express myself with fellow ENTJs, as I’ve never done, even with my friends.
I’m a 22 year old fresh out of college. I suddenly developed this curiosity to understand why I behave the way I behave. So this week, I stumbled on personality hacker. I am a forthright person, so I will make pithy sentences. I love setting challenges for myself and if I see inauspicious signs, my belief and desire is enough for me to travail to bring them to fruition. During one of my internships, I led projects without being officially appointed leader by anyone. I was never scared of any lecturer in college; my friends always turned to me for advise; I have many acquaintances but only have two close friends; I have excelled well above my peers in education from high school to college by always determining to be the best and blocking out distractions (unprofitable activities); I’m a voracious reader and I always make sure I learn something new everyday; I love observing people to know how they can be of value to me; I always show equanimity in tense situations even though I maybe scared inside; I always and still believe any desire can be brought to life by hard and smart work coupled with proper thinking and planning. I feel like I’m easily misunderstood. I’m always the leader of any group I’m in, and the one time when I wasn’t the group leader, I made sure I got involved with every decision making, and I ended up making the group presentations as people seemed to like my ideas better. I also love being lauded for my contributions, it gives me juice to do more. I’m a pliant and even-tempered person with hatred for injustice. I dislike lectures that are not lucid and concise, and meetings that do not have a predefined end time. I am easily self motivated and can easily develop the cojones to do anything I want to do by merely thinking of the benefit. I can be charming but I find it difficult to be in a relationship because I always do not see a future of me and the lady, or its either she is always just too emotional and enjoys unnecessary talks, or she’s always parochial to see the bigger picture of the relationship. I’m easily miffed by stupidity and dislike very inefficient people. I always seem to know how a person feels, but most times, I ignore their feelings and focus on what I’m trying to achieve. I also love to have organized or well planned fun, but after having fun for a very short time, I always feel this insatiable drive – that I have to be getting something done that’s worthwhile. I feel enervated around people that seem “fake”. I’m always obnoxious to be deferential to those I know aren’t smart enough, but I’ve been improving to become a better person and I’m developing this love for all people. I always have this feeling that my two closest friends may not be as loyal to me as I am to them and it kind of makes me feel isolated and lonely. I always make sure I avoid quarrels about trivial matters with anyone. I love thinking about how things (if not everything I do) can be done in the most efficient way. One thing I still struggle with is patience with people and myself, this is the only weakness I could identify when I was planning to write my university statement of purpose. It feels like I have no fear, but one thing I fear is under achievement or not living up to my expectations. I also get worried that people use me to get things done without actually wanting to be my friend. I always don’t bother myself with what people (apart from my two friends and immediate family) think of me, because as far as I’m concerned, their views don’t matter, only what I think about and perceive matters. Most of all, I always plan (not too detailed) and I have this plan for the future that I keep tweaking to ensure my happiness – which means making sure I meet my goals and live that big picture i have in mind.
The only reason I felt comfortable leaving this comment is because I know there are ENTJs here that understand me. I feel good for sharing!
At 36 years old, I feel at home in my ENTJ type. Finally.
After many pit stops, engine fails, and countless days with my 3-year old “Authenticity” screaming in the back seat, I have come to the understanding that it is much more efficient to rely on my perspectives co-pilot for well-rounded directions rather than smoke a straight line like an extroverted bat-out-of-hell.
I am woman. Hear me purr with a dull roar.
Thank-you for your pod-cast and your work on this!
Great information here.
You nailed it!!! I have struggled to try being more lady like. Hate it! Want to run with the men. Women are too boring and slow for me but the boys don’t let you in their clubs unless you bring cookies to meetings.
Frustration has been the epitome of my life. Never feeling I fit in. Women don’t get me and men don’t want me.
I cannot love this enough. This describes me… oh my gosh. It’s INCREDIBLY difficult to be an ENTJ woman, especially in the workplace. I work with almost all men and it makes it even more of a struggle because I am not what they expect. I find that I end up having to take that perspectives process so far that I end up losing a little bit of who I am by trying to tone down my personality in order to make myself more approachable. I love who I am – would not change me, but allowing myself to do a little self reflection to understand how other people view how I project myself helps me a lot. But it’s still pretty hard to slow myself down…
I wish I would have found this when you guys started it. :)