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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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Did you pick up that we’re describing the weakness, not of all ENTJs, but of those that aren’t using their Ni auxiliary (Perspectives Co-Pilot) process enough and over relying upon their tertiary process of Se too much (Sensation 10 Yr Old)? The same behavior also manifests in playing too small of a game. When an ENTJ is in their auxiliary process and marrying Te with Ni the behavior is the opposite – it’s closer to how you describe. No sacred cows, but also no need to entertain something that has already been thoroughly thought through.
You may have a well developed auxiliary process and so don’t resonate with the behavior of going to your tertiary too often. I assure you, however, it is an issue with some ENTJs that are playing it too safe.
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Hey Bill,
Nothing really floors me and sends me straight into hell like being told I’m not the greatest of all time at work. It is our one very, very real weakness. It can make us angry, stubborn, defiant, un-characteristically nasty and fog up our decision making skills so much that the healthy appreciation for pragmatisms is out the door. Something people don’t ever capture is yes we love criticism so long as that criticism does not make us feel like we are not Michael Jordan still. I would say take a deep breath. If your system is more efficient and effective you probably violated what we tend to always violate at some point which is people’s emotions, need for us to play our position, or we accidently spat on the cross. We don’t know any other position but leadership, we account for how people will feel but often times not enough, and in the pursuit of logic we will topple some scared column. Sure as the sun will come up we will piss someone off. Just make pay your taxes take time to go around the team and ask them to truly let you know how they feel. Most of them will be careful but they will tell you. If you really make them feel like you are listening but nodding in agreement and by incorporating their more helpful ideas on how to make things better they will love you again. It will coalesce the team around your vision and make everyone feel you are the right man to lead again. Don’t at any point while you are doing this defend your thoughts and position this is not a think tank that process should have been done already this is a team building exercise. The only time you should be voicing a thought is in agreement and letting them know their thoughts and feelings will be incorporated. Above all else you want to be the leader that makes peoples lives easier and feel like without you the whole building comes down. You are just missing that feeling and it WON’T go away until you do what you have to do.
I’m an ENTJ and not to be critical but I think you have us totally wrong. I went about half way in and decided I should just stop and try to provide some more analysis. For example you used the example of the British being stuck in formation because it worked before. They did not adapt until it is too late a feature you attribute to ENTJ. That is not at all a ENTJ weakness. If Napoleon is truly part of the ENTJ profile than obliviously doing something new is a strength of an ENTJ. That is our strength and our weakness. We don’t like sacred cows unless there is a more practical reason other than it is sacred. However not appreciating the sacred part of the label because it has no value to US gets us into a lot of trouble especially I have found with SJ. For ENTJ and ENTP we have to learn it is not so much important that it is logical but that it is sacred and it matters because others value it. If it is an obstacle work with it so the perception is there but the reality moves towards the more logical. Telling an ENTJ that we should use a strategy because it worked last year or last week gets a zero valuation from an ENTJ. That is probably what frustrates most people about ENTP and ENTJs. We will ask you a follow up well why do you think it will work this time? How does this strategy work with the new features of the obstacle we are facing now? Most ENTJ will not even value personal experience but assess each new threat independently regardless if it bares the same similarity of the past obstacles. We like wholestic individual assessments rather than cookie cutter approaches .As an ENTJ I feel our god will always be pragmatism and logic nothing else. What your referencing as the ENTJ not coming back for reassessment is actually things we have written off or given a negative classification. We don’t like sipping through things that we have thrown away already that includes people and ideas. However things that we have found value in and ideas are under constant prodding as we are trying to perfect, re-test, and evolve the idea and person we have labeled positive. That is why an ENTJ will never go back to a relationship they left already because it didn’t work before. That is nonsensical and I agree. It does not give way to the fact that people and things change. It is however the way we approach a lot of things that have failed in the past. Even if that person evolved into someone new it takes a lot to get us to say okay let’s invest our time into re-researching a failed concept. However green lit projects and people are under constant monitoring to ensure that we have arrived to the right conclusion and don’t need to make changes or improvements. I could go on but I just wanted to list out my observation it’s okay because a lot of what’s out there I don’t think applies at all to me and other ENTJs I know.
Hi, I was hoping you’d respond to Fatima’s comment because part of it sounds like the man I’m dating and I was wondering if what Fatima describes (see excerpt below) is typical of ENTJs, or if it sounds more like some other type. I’d like to know because I’d like to know what my boyfriend’s type is so that I can accommodate our differences better. Thanks!
‘Lastly, ENTJs are often described as doers and go getters. But I have ambitions and great plans but sometimes I end up just day dreaming more than actually going through with them. Also I just tend to procrastinate till it gets too late and I feel like giving up or do give up. What is up with that? Because I do feel like an ENTJ, I hate myself when I’m not achieving and I tend to go into depression, but I keep getting into the same cycle. I start doing things that give me short term pleasures but I continue to go deeper into the dark place of feeling like a failure. I think that’s the sensation part you talked about. How do I stop being lazy and be consistent in working on my goals?
Well I know that was a lot of me :p but I hope you’d help me a little here.’
Hi Michelle!
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing!
We here at PH wish you the best in
your letting go and healing journey!
And thank you for supporting other
ENTJ’s with your kind words!