ENTP

Yard Sale

2007-09-26T13:23:25Z

Alright ENTP-ers...

If you were to have a yard sale what items would we find there?

entp_mbti @ 2007-01-12T06:19:00

2007-01-12T03:25:40Z

ENTP vseh stran obiediniates! )

hello from russia with love!

I dunno about my ENTP career list - do any of these fit you?

2005-12-20T18:09:53Z

Favored careers:
1. dictator
2. computer consultant
3. international spy
4. tv producer
5. philosopher
6. comedian
7. music performer
8. it consultant
9. fighter pilot
10. politician
11. diplomat
12. entertainer
13. game designer
14. bar owner
15. freelance writer
16. creative director
17. strategist
18. news anchor
19. professional skateboarder
20. airline pilot
21. comic book artist
22. college professor
23. private detective
24. mechanical engineer
25. lecturer
26. ambassador
27. astronomer
28. research scientist
29. judge
30. web developer
31. scholar
32. fbi agent
33. cia agent
34. electrical engineer
35. assassin

An earnest question

2005-12-08T08:16:29Z

It's interesting to see all the ENTPs here, and to see us deifying our intelligence, our flickering attention span, our various caprices. I like ENTPs, but we are spastic in an existential way, and sometimes it's neither amusing nor entertaining, just spun-out.

Do you cash in all your Scrabble tiles and get new ones, every two years or so? I always seem in the process of leaving a job, a relationship, a country, and I'm wondering if someone has a better way of coping with boredom. Movement for movement's sake doesn't seem a particularly enlighted choice, but I'm tapped for ideas.

How do you deal with the boredom?

Hello

2005-06-26T07:44:30Z

Just posting once then I'll leave you alone, this little INFP shant invade your personal space for too long.

Wanted to let the Intuitives out there know that there is a website with a relatively active chat room and extremely active forum board for you to check out:
http://intuitivecentral.com/

ENTPs and language learning

2005-06-05T06:30:29Z

Heya -- another newcomer ENTP here. I've been wondering this -- how many of us out there pick up languages easily?

I'm a language nut. I think it started out with math since I've always sucked up mathematics like water, but languages and math are essentially the same skill anyhow. But at any rate, I'm really crazy about languages. They're social, pretty, extremely heavily layered with lots of information (historical, anthropological, social, grammatical), and studying them gives one the opportunity to take in large chunks of data at once with relatively little input as well as performing complex mental structure-building. All of these things seem tailor-made for the natural proclivities of the ENTP, as we tend to be nonlinear thinkers, rather clever, highly social and in love with communicating, and able to take in and apprehend large amounts of information at once.

So -- do we all pick up languages like most people pick up colds, or is it just me? What languages are represented here on the group?

e2

2005-04-03T23:22:26Z

*pokes dead community*
This isn't the only ENTP community I've found where people make a couple posts and move on or forget about it. Especially entertaining is this one, which was apparently abandoned before it even started. Has some guestbook signatures, though.

That said, if you don't already know of everything2, you might want to look into it. It's vast quantities of information on anything anyone could find interesting, and it's all interlinked quite beautifully. I've been reading it for months.

Enjoy!
--Theo

ENTPs rule the world.

2005-03-14T03:44:19Z

Time for a little shameless self-promoting assertion... but aren't we ENTP's the best of all the types?

I mean.. think with me for a second... the most creative, inventive, personalble, social, and utterly unique... hey what's that over there...? I'll be right back...

An observation

2005-02-15T08:06:07Z

Hey look, an inactive ENTP community, I guess we all got hooked and found interests elsewhere for now.

Haha...

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how ENTP of us.

Emotional v. Unemotional Needs

2005-01-25T05:12:41Z

xNTP here with a question....

Why is it that people's need to be emotional is always considered to be more important than others' need to be unemotional? I've experienced this over and over again, but the two occasions that come to mind:

1.) When I had to leave Japan because of finances, my friend Aki kept wanting to have these sob-fests about how we were going to be apart. She couldn't understand that after making me cry three or four times I just simply didn't have the energy anymore, and it was making me not want to be around her at all. She even wanted to come to airport because her need for closure, according to the standard societal definition, was more important than my need to leave calmly and with a hopeful attitude.

2.) Recently I've been what I would term emotionally exhausted from the ups and downs of being severely underpaid for eight months, unemployed for two and then micromanaged for several weeks. I've only really started to feel my normal competent self in the last week or so because my boss of over-analness has been gone, and I've been working in a more mellow environment. So, in the middle of this do I want to sit around discussing my feelings? No. I do not.

Of course that's expectation from my father. And when asking me if he'd done something that made me angry, my assurances that no, I've been stressed were not enough. It was clear that he was hoping for a tearful hug and love. And frankly, I just didn't have the energy. But obviously his needy push for me to have the scene that he wants (in spite of my needs/desires) doesn't make him a bad person, no, my denial of that scene because I'm tired of it, that's what makes a bad person.

So, again I have to ask why is it that emotional people get to push their emotions all over others and expect them to take part in this, while those more comfortable dealing with things logically or by thinking about something else get the bum rap?

Regarding the MBTI !

2005-01-25T03:57:37Z

Hey everyone, I'm an ENTP! Ok now that introductions are out of the way.. I have a few questions for you all:

1) Where could one get certified to give this test? I feel that it would be more accurate if I could administer it in person instead of sending someone a link to the free test.

2) Do you feel that many people just lie to themselves therefore putting an idealized self in the answers? Which means that the results aren't too accurate.

3) Do you consider socionics.com to be accurate for the test and how the personality types get along?

Gotta Go

2004-11-24T10:34:17Z

I always warm to fictional ENTPs when I find them. In TV shows they are often characters who come in out of nowhere, fix things (or stir them up) and them disappear. I think that relfects the way we appear to other personality types - unreliable but stimulating.

Here are some characters I think are ENTP (or ENTP-like)

Q from Star Trek
Dr Who (particularly the Tom Baker Dr Who)
Detective Goram from Law and Order, Criminal Intent
The bounty hunter, Jubal Early, from Firefly

I'll have a think about characters in books. What do you think of my sugggestions? Got any others?

[entp newbie]

2004-11-24T05:57:08Z

I suppose one could say we are breaking the "rule"/trend of posting in the community we're in....hehehe. ::pokes at community:: It's hard thinking of ENTP things to say. :O

was thinking...

2004-08-22T10:15:55Z

I was thinking about contacting some MBTI experts and asking them to hold seminars on how to deal with golds for people like us. we can't beat 'em... there are too many of them. and if we get them to see the great side of "green"... nt'ness they will just pervert it to their gold ways. :-) so... I was thinking it would be good if the "greens" could arm themselves with "gold" tips and tricks so we can get our ideas across without getting slaughtered.

sorry about the grammar and stuff in this post. i'm so so busy but i wanted to say something...

An INTP invasion

2004-08-01T11:20:13Z

I usually don't do these introduction things, but I decided to let you know that a non-ENTP has invaded your community. :P I hope it's ok... if you don't want non-ENTPs around, just kick me out!

I'm pretty close, though - I'm an INTP, my husband is an ENTP, and one of my best friends in an XNTP.

Getting the ball rolling

2004-07-29T22:18:14Z

According to this personality type survey, TPs report the least relationship satisfaction with other TPs. Why do you think this might be so?

Going along with the conventional wisdom, NTs report the highest degrees of mutual satisfaction with NFs.

Welcome

2004-07-29T21:58:29Z

Here's a place for ENTPs to, well, be ENTPs, and for those who enjoy interacting with us. Have fun.