You Know You're An ENTP When #141

That dreadful moment when the conversation switches from logical and rational subjects to emotional subjects

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde  (via entp-mess)

You know you're an ENTP when #108

your vocabulary doesn’t include the word “impossible.”

*planet explodes* *removes one earbud* what

enfp: I bet I could fit the whole world in my hands!

entp: That's physically impossible.

enfp: *cups entp's face* Are you sure?

entp: *blushing* Stop it, I have a reputation.

ENTP Love

(Official Disclaimer)

One of the major things I love about ENTPs is that you don’t generally let conflicts fester. You deal with problems directly, you can’t stand passive-aggressiveness, and you prefer openness and honesty in your relationships. That’s amazing.

I also love your confidence. Whether it’s quiet or loud, it works, and everyone can tell you are generally pretty confident in yourself and your abilities.

I love that you can enforce rules without being a control freak or micromanager. It’s perfect. You are really excellent at being in charge. You don’t try to put in place meaningless rules or regulations, but you do put in place enough rules to effectively close loopholes and get the job done. Once you’ve practiced and had experience in leadership,your style is perfect. Don’t change a thing.

I love that you’re protective of the people you love. It’s really, really awesome. I am more than a little in awe of how intense you can be when you need to protect or defend someone. It’s perfect.

I love that you don’t seem to try. Everything you do seems effortless and easy, and you seem to excel at whatever you do. I know that can’t be true, but it still appears that way, and I love it.

The ENTP Awkward Phase

The ENTP awkward phase is a time, normally in the teen years, where the naturally goofy and loveable ENTP, represses themselves in order to fit in.

The problem with this is that ENTPs are well… naturally unique. Not everyone is like them which is why they’re one of the rarer personalities. Yet they want to fit in somewhat and to do this, they start repressing their naturally unique personality. It could be their weirdness, their loudness, their talkative nature, their annoyingness or anything really. But repressing it feels awful and it can lead the ENTP to feeling really upset.

When in this phase, ENTPs may fit in, but can still come across as rather introverted or just awkward. Yet this frustrates the ENTP because they know that that isn’t themselves at their best, and it feels like barely anyone knows what they’re actually like.

It can be hard to break out of this phase and be your happy ENTP self again, but the key is to not care about others. Their expectations shouldn’t be stopping you from being yourself. It doesn’t matter if they think you’re kind or not, what matters is your happiness and if being yourself upsets them, then that’s too bad.

As an ENTP, your charm comes from your weird and loveable personality and by repressing it, you’re no longer special.

Once you can accept your personality you won’t be acting or repressing yourself. Instead you’ll enjoy being yourself and find that everyone else is naturally drawn to you when you can do that sincerely.

SO-blind pros and cons:

pros

- quality interactions are the norm

- healthier approach to relationships, being alone is always better than being with people who aren’t good for us

- generally loyal, genuine, and altruistic in our relationships

- less bullshit, people usually know where they stand with us

- less affected by others’ opinions, confidence is internally generated

- less superficial/materialistic, it’s about the way things are rather than how they look

- more critical of societal norms and unwilling to play along with stupid or toxic practices

- prioritize health, safety, and meaningful relationships above reputation

- actually mind our own damn business

cons

- sometimes too rigorous about our “screening” for friends/cutting people off because they don’t meet the bar we’ve set

- constantly feeling like a misfit/outcast

- actually might be an outcast. at least we seem to constantly leave behind groups and situations because we inevitably reach the disillusionment stage

- hard to impress

- can be cold, hurtful, bad at validating people and insensitive of others’ feelings unless they’re somehow important to us (read: meet our nearly impossible standards)

- overly rebellious or non-compliant, needlessly critical of society and rules

- may talk to people but have no intention of bonding, which confuses people when they realize the SO-blind in question never considered them a friend

- do not understand why people care if we wear pajamas in public (I think this is a con because I actually don’t get why it matters?)

- *forcibly self-isolates* *doesn’t talk to people* *is constantly rude and blunt* “why am I alone”

Me

“ENTps usually have a distant, far away look in their eyes and it often seems as though they are paying little attention to what is going on. During conversation ENTps like to play with objects, like a pen for example, often accidentally breaking it. They may gesticulate when passionately telling a story. ENTps do not know how to keep the right psychological distance with people. This becomes especially noticeable during long term interaction. One day they can be friendly and the next day they can be completely opposite. They often behave unceremoniously and can rudely butt in on others conversations. ENTps can also find it difficult to evaluate how others feel about them and therefore can make mistakes when choosing friends.”

It’s so… accurate.

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