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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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It has taken me a couple of days to be able to write this as the podcast felt like it hit so close to the bone for me. I was floored (literally, I had to lie down on the floor to process everything) by how accurately it described me and what it unearthed for me in terms of understanding how I have ended up where I am in life now.
I think I am the classic ‘miss efficiency’ and it was a bit much having that reflected back, it wasn’t how I saw myself. I also know that I have a great capacity to ignore the warning signs, I can really push through, and I think that’s why I am how I am now.
A few years ago I got quite sick, my own special version of Chronic Fatigue, and didn’t get out of bed for much for over 3 months. I worked hard (see still couldn’t not do) to care for myself and have gradually become well enough that I would say I can do 60% of what I used to be able to do.
Listening to the podcast I had all these massive flashes of insight around how I was pushing myself and staying in a workplace which I am sure contributed to my illness (quite toxic, esp for my personality type). I could see how I couldn’t slow down and let go of anything even after I had my kids, who were super demanding in a variety of ways. It all came together in my head as I listened to your podcast.
Then I had my current time and place reflected and saw how much I was beating up on myself for being so inefficient. I am almost always tired and or feel sick, like I have the flu, so I cannot get a huge amount done, and I am making huge amounts of little mistakes in all aspects of my existence which drive my crazy (the mess you have to clean up, the time lost ….). I am still expecting so much of myself and still cannot find that place of ‘getting some done’ and pacing myself. Switching off and relaxing is really hard for me, according to one health professional I work with I don’t even relax at night, my muscles hold their high tone while I sleep! You can imagine where my mental health is at.
I know everyone has different experiences, health patterns, genetic inheritance etc but I would encourage all of us ENTJ people to take heed of the warning signs, develop the skills to let go and have time out as you might just end up where I did. Its really not fun being such a limited ENTJ.
I am a 26 year old ENTJ female who just discovered that this is my type! Everyone in my family says " THIS IS SO YOU!" However I am a professionally trained actress and that has greatly influenced my perspectives and authenticity processes even though I do still greatly struggle with my own emotions ( I love to deal with other characters but I tend to push down or ignore mine). But through my acting training I found that I have a more natural gift for Directing and Stage Managing and effectiveness is such a core value of mine. I would say that my biggest struggle is my judgement of others but recently that has turned and I have realized that because I am so judge mental if others they must be judge mental of me and it has started a confidence break down. I am also married to an ISTJ who is fantastic at getting me to relax and have fun but we have some struggles as well in the way we prefer to live our life. I am still learning about this stuff and trying to devour it all so that I can apply it in order to enhance my life and career, so thank you so much for putting this out there. Greatly appreciated
How do you help an ENTJ who is avoiding authenticity and has not built grounds for perspective so they are stuck on stimulation for the here and now? They have achieved greatly in the business world and continue to do so. Their personal perspective “distraction” they use to avoid looking inward and checking in is stimulation. As you say “cutting the light from the dash” and avoiding introspection. They complain of not feeling as much as others but avoid feeling up into a point of when things become overwhelming then there is tears for hours with an incapability of explaining why they are crying.
Hope you can provide some guidance.
Hi Guys,
Thanks for sharing the Podcasts. Typed myself as an INTP but someone said I might be an EN. So after taking a full day to have another look. What relief to be an ENTJ
I’m looking for sensory distractions all over the place. Find it so difficult to look inwards. I need proximity in my work and have a burning desire for leadership. I want to design systems but I can’t stick to a routine? Boy there’s alot of limiting beliefs to change..
I have felt like I need to pull over for about two years. I know what to do it’s look inwards to decide on my values beliefs and final goal. But it seems so in authentic because I’ll always do things based on the situation I’m faced with. I need put paper infront of myself brain dump regularly write it all down so I can work on few ideas. I’m always looking for the internet’s help. It’s so distracting. I don’t feel I have a strong sense of identity. Except I feel deserving of success. I’ll Before I write anything down I need to research. “How to write empowering history” and I’ll continue to find scenery like this to avoid doing the work.
My book recommendations:
“The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York”
“Steven Pressfield the-war-of-art”
So I’ve discovered in the last 6 months I’m an ENTJ. Meyers Briggs has been helpful in many regards, obviously. Very powerful stuff.
For me the most challenging has been what she described as dysthymia when I’m dealing with emotions and self reflection (which I must say they were were very accurate in describing). When I realized I was ENTJ I was going through a tough time. Co workers were challenging my systems, which pushed me into a self reflecting sort of mode. These ‘challenges’ were nasty interactions which caused much emotional pain making it more difficult for me to get through the self reflection. Somewhere around the 3 month mark I started to come out of it. It’s been up and down since, but I think I’ve finally made it through the majority of self reflection process.
I’m open to suggestions on ways to get through the self reflection process and emotional pain more efficiently (there I go with the ENTJ, right? Trying to set up a system!!!). Anyone has any suggestions I’m all ears. I have a small library now of self help books that I reference when required which helps, but seems like my own experience is so unique that no one book is a silver bullet.
Great site you guys have here, great podcasts!