ENTP Personality Inside & Out...

hello welcome back to my channel so today I want to do a video all about the entp personality type I want to talk about their strengths their weaknesses and also their cognitive functions so if you don't know what a cognitive function is that's going to be really important to this video so actually Myers and Briggs came after what Carl Young coined in 1921 which were the eight cognitive functions so there's actually instead of just one type of thinking or one type of feeling there's actually two types of thinking two types of feeling which those have

then been collapsed into the letter dichotomy so over time it's kind of lost some of its meaning but it makes it really interesting if you get into cognitive functions so I have these eight cognitive functions here it's by no means exhaustive but it can be kind of a starting place for which you know cognitive function kind of calls out to you because the online tests are very frequently wrong so if you just came from like the 16 personalities website I don't recommend typing yourself in that way it's just becoming more and more widely known that

those tests are very unreliable so I learn about the cognitive functions first and then type yourself in that way and don't become too attached to whatever result you got on an online test so each of the 16 personalities uses all eight cognitive functions in a specific order and specific ways which gives them a very specific flavor so for the entp this is the order they use their cognitive functions in and I have the abbreviations listed here too so loosely speaking this is descending in order of importance which of the functions are most important to least

important to an entp and also Loosely speaking this is descending chronologically in what order these get developed within the person so your first function extroverted intuition has been with you your whole life then maybe when you're like teens 20s your second function becomes a strength then maybe your 30s your third function comes up your 40s your fourth function comes up and so on and so forth so by the the time you know you're like 16 or so these all eight functions are working with you in a default way but they're not necessarily all working as

a strength so to add some Nuance to this your top four functions are conscious to you and you value them your bottom four functions are not valued and they're not conscious so your top four functions even though maybe they're not all a strength you still value these things maybe you value them in other people so you choose a partner who has those traits so that's some more Nuance to this the functions I've listed in green are your potential strengths and the functions listed in red are your probable weaknesses so this is people's kind of default

State you know if you haven't done that much work on things so your fifth and sixth functions are green but I wouldn't jump into you know using those functions working on those functions because like I said earlier this is still descending Loosely in order of importance so I would start with like your first function then your second function then your third then your fourth so what I'm going to get into in this video is this Matrix here we have this overused underused strength weakness Matrix that I'm going to go into for the top four functions

of the entp how do these really color the personality because since the top four functions are conscious and value there's so much meat to unpack there and the way they affect the personality and how you can kind of play up your strengths work on your weaknesses to really get results that you want so if you want to know where I got some of this information these bullet points here are quotes from Carl Young John BBE Myers and Briggs about how the different functions play into each other um you I'm not going to go into it

here but if you want to pause it and just see what some of these quotes are from the key players I did go into that in another video so I'm not going to go into it here but if you want to pause it you can so your first cognitive function is extroverted Intuition or Brea abbreviated NE e so extrovert means to turn outward vert means to turn extra means outward and Carl Young got the word extrovert and introvert from benet's words introspection and externos spection it has those same prefixes but the difference is spec means

to watch over so it's kind of turning outward and watching over what's happening outwardly or trying to uh you know impact the outward environment um and so in this case it's with the intuition so there's a lot of things going on outwardly but in this case it's the intuitions so intuitions are things that do not exist yet a lot of times and then sensing is things that do exist through your five senses so a lot of times with intuition that can be things like ideas that are not in existence right now this could be the

future um but it's how can you take the things that are not in existence and kind of make those be in existence so there's a lot about possibilities brainstorming ideation these are kind of some key words for extroverted intuition so this first function everyone's first function is their overused strength so this is the function that's been with you the longest throughout your whole life life it's who you feel like you are this is the function that's been with you the whole time so as a little kid you should see evidence of yourself using this function

and car young says that your dominant function it never stagnates it's like you have a compulsion to use it it's the water you swim in like you couldn't stop doing this even if you tried so I just went through and I did deep Dives about each of these cognitive functions they were like 45 minutes long so a lot of these bullet points come down to quotes from Carl Young predominantly and some of them are from Vander hoop but most of these are quotes from Carl Young and then I've got like an arrow with kind of

how I can see this showing up like in America in 23 um so possibilities is a huge word for Extravert intuition that's the number one word and it's usually it was usually used in the plural form and it was used many times so expectant possibilities new possibilities realized possibilities so there's this enthusiasm and this Radiance for new possibilities when when extroverted intuitives think about change they think of it as expectant and promising uh when they think of a new idea it's like everything has the seed of future promise was one of the quotes So these

possibilities you know that reaches to many areas of life you know some examples could be I know many extroverted intuitive Doms who have started their own businesses many times over they went to law school then they started their own law business and then they got into the military and then they and there's a lot of hopping around you know even among like Baby Boomers who didn't do that as much you know there's a lot of career hopping and especially their own businesses a lot of their own businesses um moving to New cities you know I've

lived in Idaho I'm living in San Francisco now so I've seen entps in different environments um but still what I noticed about a lot of them is they moved away right out of high school I would say by default extroverted intuitives are not the type to really stick around they want the new possibilities and that extends to where they live so you know not going to a college close to home but probably going outward and then living in a lot of different cities I'm thinking of several of them you know they lived in San Francisco

and then they lived in Phoenix and then they went to the east coast and they went to Alabama and I'm just thinking of a lot of these entps that I know that have moved around one new possibilities that comes especially because they have that TI is I see a huge interest in new technology um I know a lot of entps that are really into Galaxy and not not iPhones and they uh you know hop on the new trends you know when VR came out or when like the watches came out you know really hopping on

new technology really quickly a one quote experted intuition is the initiation of new Enterprises so this comes down to like those new businesses that I was talking about um but I know uh W entp who does sales for chat gbt artificial intelligence so when they see this new technology it's seen as like exciting and they want to hop on it and they see it as you know something to really jump on as a great opportunity um I know one who does a VR video game gym he owns this gym and so he actually travels around

uh train tring other people how to do it um so that's something that's really big with them uh they're really really enjoy novelty and creative impulse and change so one thing I want to say is they love change there are quotes about how extroverted intuition sees everyday mundane Life as a prison and what's going to let them out of that prison is change oh there were lots of quotes about extrovert intuition being very clever active in mind ingenious um one thing that I've noticed that they do really well without trying I would say that school

is better designed for some of the J personal it types I think te and Fe do well with external motivation TI and fi I don't think do as well with external motivation um but even without trying you know they're the type uh in my experience you know as a teacher they're the type to you know procrastinate but still do decently well or you know they might they might get sees but in the conversation you can tell they're with it a lot more than maybe some of these students who get A's but they didn't like fully

understand it um and they don't like the system I knew um in high school I knew an entp who he like didn't try for the SAT but we all had to like take it school or whatever so he took it and then he um you know we're in a small town in Idaho but still he did really well so he ended up getting like a national award for the SAT he did not try in school you know he didn't get good grades or anything so they wanted to uh recognize him at the assembly and when

they gave him the mic that was a mistake to give the entp the mic cuz he went on this rant about how the school system is broken how you shouldn't incentivize these things and you know I um basically just whole debate the end taking the microphone from him you know he didn't go to graduation he thought that was just kind of a stupid thing to go to graduation so that's something that comes up I think is interesting they're very non-traditional now I find that a lot of people call themselves non-traditional cuz when they think of

traditional they think of like you know maybe like 1950s culture or whatever and they say well I'm not that so I must not be traditional but I'm talking like very non-traditional when I talk about some of these types so an example of this could be ethical non- monogamy I mean I certainly know I know most most of the entps I know are monogamous but there's this interest in things that are very non-traditional it's very traditional to have a monogamous relationship so it's you know going a different direction so this is your dominant function so a

lot of times if you're feeling down or you're not feeling like yourself you haven't given this function enough opportunity to thrive you know it's the function that's been with you throughout your whole life you know if you're an expert intuitive you've had this function since you were a child and so it's something that's really important to make space for this function to you know create space for change I think that this is one of those functions that you know combined with some of these other functions can kind of blow things up you know it'll kind

of just blow the world up because it just wants change so much and so I think this is a function that can get kind of shunned out and so it's important to find people who value this function and who are you know willing to hop on these bandwagons with you so Carl Young talks about extroversion and introversion give you two different things this is your first extroverted function and it gives you access to the World and Action taking which is so important so extroversion is not necessarily like a bunch of dinner parties introversion is not

watching Netflix alone with your cat but extroversion is really just you know impacting outwardly so it gives you impact it gives you access to the world and your second function introverted thinking gives you access to the self and reflection that's what introversion gives you so introvert means to turn inward and watch over what's happening inwardly so like introspection so it gives you access to understanding yourself deeply and an access to yourself and reflection and really introspection so if you're you know just at home and you're alone and you're watching Netflix or something that's not necessarily

valuable introversion because you're still turning outward and watching the show you know maybe you have an interplay where you then turn in word and process or think how does this make sense to me but but just the definition of introversion extroversion is not just like alone or with people because you could be in a group of people and you could tune them out and be uh introspecting now it's definitely easier to introspect when you're alone but it's not you know it's not required that you're alone so your second function is introverted thinking so introvert means

to turn inward watch over what's happening inwardly and there's a lot of things you could watch over what's happening inwardly that you could introspect about but in this case it's your thoughts how things make sense to you distinct from the group how you process things so this function the second function is everyone's underused strength this is something that you definitely have a talent for but it might take some skill building in it this is the function that comes on the scene when you're like teens 20s so a lot of times this function can be neglected

it can really be watered down because you're an extrovert and this function is introverted so there's a tendency to not want to fully get into this function there's a tendency to want to morphit into an extroverted thing or it's not really do it in its full capacity but you're an entp so to get rid of this function would mean to get rid of like who you really are so it's kind of tricky to go there cu the introversion but really it's something that you want to do because you're a thinker and Carl Young talks about

this second function adds complexity to this type you know when you're first growing up you just have access to that first function and then when you become a when you become a teenager then you start having access to all these functions but really you only have access to as a strength the first two at this point in your life so this add a lot of complexity and it gets rid of that one dimensional nature of the individual so the number one word used with introverted thinking is principles principles came up so much by Carl Young

so some important words associated with introverted thinking are principles truth convictions there are a lot of quotes about there's an exacting scrupulousness and exactitude uh and there were quotes about how their communication style has a lot of saving Clauses qualifications when you have these saving qualifications it sounds like it depends not all the times but sometimes um and they you know include a lot of hedging which is really makes communication very precise um introverted thinking is quiet reserved and detached and this is very different from extroverted intuition this is what adds a complexity to the

character it's not a one-dimensional side um so it is quiet Reserve detach you know kind of slow to speak um when you think about this exacting scrupulousness and exactitude with communication that's very slow to speak quiet reserve and detached and this is something that's not necessarily part of an entp stereotype because a lot of times this quiet reserved function gets kind of you know watered down or Twisted to the extraverted version of itself um but this is definitely a part of entps and I think as I see entp you know 40s and up let's say

I start seeing a lot more maturity with you know the well-roundedness of introversion and extroversion you know Carl Young talks about the dangers of being one-sided and I have a whole video about that about you know the one-sidedness that extroverts and introverts the traps they can fall into but when I see people 40s and up a lot of times I'm starting to see a lot more maturity and complexity with with the way they use these functions so introverted thinking is skeptical and has a critique of knowledge in general and thought material so I've seen this

can be interests in theology ethics apologetics history law is something that I see a lot um but they typically you know I notice a lot of times they'll have like one like quite technical interest um you know I'm kind of in Christian circles so I the entps I know really get into Theology and they really get into you know Calvinism or predestination or arminianism and they really get deep into you know apologetics a lot of times so it's a critique of knowledge in general so really getting into this knowledge in general and you know what

do I think about that thing um and so but TI in general it's just speaking knowledge in general it's not oriented at people it's not oriented at teams or groups but it's just you know theology in general ethics in general apologetics in general um but not attacking people um one of the quotes from uh it was either Vander hoop or Carl Young is that introverted thinking can have a great deal to say on subjects but not being better in practice so one thing that I'll notice is I don't which I don't notice this when they're

like in their 40s enough let's say this is something I notic a lot more of people in their 20s but I know I know a lot of entps who are the black sheeps of their family and a lot of times um it was something that was spurn spurred on in their teens and early 20s um you know they got kicked out of the house you know I know someone had to go to military school that's something that I've seen a lot is them being like the black sheep of the family and it just comes from

this introverted thinking which can have a hubris about it coming on the scene at a stage of life when you're a teenager and there's already going to be a tendency to have hubris and so a lot of times this will blow things up for entps and estps um you know especially with that non-traditional nature and liking change um but then you know the ti hasn't really been strengthened yet and so sometimes the ntps will shut off TI altogether and like you know what that didn't help me you know that had a lot of bad consequences

in my life when I got into TI but as you get through your 20s and as you're getting toward the end of your 20s that TI is really maturing a lot and it's not so you know teenager is you know there's just general maturity not related to personality um and so I want entps to stay and be committed to being an introverted thinking I know that it's there's so high potential that they feel like it's blown something up in their lives but I really will make the argument that it's extroverted feeling that has done a

lot of it um an introverted thinking has a high level of personal responsibility high integrity it corrects its own thoughts so it's going Inward and it's introspecting where could I be wrong what do I think about this and so it's taking the posture first of you know where could I be wrong so this is the function everyone's second function I recommend you you know isolate that function and work on it for an extended amount of time you know like 5 years isolate this function and try to get the most you can out of it because

this is your underused strength this is you know your first function you're probably already using it you know it never stagnates you're probably using that thing a lot so this is really your best bang for your buck as a way to really get better as an individual get some Integrity personal responsibility you know turn inward and think you know how could I be wrong and then once you've gone through the work of this over these 5 years then you can teach people how to also do that as well because your first function is like you're

a natural at it and sometimes it's hard to teach people something you're natural at but your second function you were born you know you've got this you've got the talent for it but you have to develop that skill and earn that skill so once you've seen the pitfalls then you can like teach other people you know how to use that function to really think for themselves uh to communicate things in a way that's going to be received you know it gives a lot of intentional communication it's quiet slow to speak exacting scrupulousness exactitude this is

a skill that entps could really cultivate and then the entps I do know that have done this are so I respect them so much so this second function is called the parent function by John BB so when you think about a good parent this is someone who's responsible they set expectations for themselves they set expectations for the child and so this is how you can be a more you know responsible person this is how you set expectations for yourself to make sure that you're not uh you know slack so there quotes about this second function

lends a lot of range Prospect and satisfaction um you know I talk to people who feel like they came home to themselves when they finally got the full strength of their second function cuz you're an entp so you know to abandon this function is to abandon a huge part of yourself so now getting on to your third function your third function is extroverted feeling or abbreviated Fe so everyone's thirdd function is the direct opposite of their second function so since your second function is introverted this one's extroverted since your second one is thinking this one

is feeling so extroverted feeling they're direct opposites um so the thing about them being direct opposites is that they're called a polarity so that's like the North Pole South Pole or sometimes the anal uses like a light switch so the light switch can either be flipped on to TI or it can be flipped down to Fe but the light switch cannot be on and off at the same time or or North Pole and South Pole TI is North Pole Fe is South Pole and you cannot be at the North Pole and South Pole at the

same time you got to pick so everyone's thirdd function is their overused weakness this is a function that it's in the Red Zone um and it's something that no matter what stage of life you're in this is something that I notice people going into and it's because you're an extrovert this is an extroverted function so there's some Indulgence there there's a tendency to want to go there um but the issue is that it's a feeling function and you're a thinker so since that light switch can only be flipped on or flipped off it can't be

both if you choose to go down to this Fe you're choosing to go away from this TI you can't be them uh both at the same time so if you choose to go to this function because the extraversion is comfortable and indulgent you're getting rid of who you really are which is the n TP not an NFP so John BB calls this function the child function and I had quotes where I told you that you could pause it from those bullet points but there are quotes about there's cowardice in this function there's ego it's kind

of hoty um there's kind of can be some huers in this function a lot times people think that they're better at this function than they actually are and this function really has the energy of a brat teenager that thinks they know everything so a lot of times people will go to this function if they're kind of insecure or if they're immature or defensive um this is a function that can really trip people up a lot of times the good qualities of a function really get twisted and tainted once you get down to this third position

but it's really just marked by immaturity a lot of times if you are around someone who's really immature what you're picking up on is an overuse of the third function so this function is called extroverted feeling so extrovert means to turn outward and watching over what's happening outwardly and in this case it's the feeling environment you know what are the values of the group are we vibing as a group are we in harmony um and Harmony is the number one word that Carl Young used for this function Harmony and one of the issues with this

function Carl Young talked about is an issue with extroverted feelings that they can lose sight of their own Viewpoint um now this is where you get um you know you you might hear The Stereotype the entps will argue things that they don't even agree with or they'll say they're playing Devil's Advocate but maybe they're really arguing for their own point it's just kind of a covert way to say that um and so it kind of loses sight of its uh of its own Viewpoint and it's the direct opposite of introverted thinking introverted thinking like never

loses sight of its own Viewpoint it's very certain about its own thoughts um extroverted feeling has really good people skills now if you put this in the third position the way this can kind of get tainted um is that entps might use dirty emotional tactics or humor to persuade as opposed to using intellect to persuade um so I'll see a lot lot of comics uh that are uh ti2 fe3d you know there's a lot of poking fun at other people you know really clever but using that cleverness to kind of persuade people you know emotionally

I think a lot of late night talk show hosts are entps um but you can kind of see how they end up using their skills for like making fun of people or bullying people um and it's not the full you don't end up getting the full force of TI because as soon as you're flipped down to Fe you're doing the opposite of what ti is so if you really want that you know the critique of knowledge in general General and really that you know the exacting scrupulousness that rightness which TI gives you you can't be

an Fe because soon as you start getting into this emotional group Behavior you're getting out of like the actual rightness so Fe is very Community oriented so the way this can get twisted is it's criticizing groups and people instead of knowledge in general this could be like political teeming now extroverted intuition is not very traditional so they're probably less likely to advocate for Democrats or Republicans but they end up strongly arguing against them like like hey this they're wrong in this way they're wrong in this way and the names will get used a lot Democrats

Republicans will get used a lot um or you know they will just criticize groups a lot um or people you know one thing that I think entps are not known for is not part of the stereotype but they can be involved in kind of drama a lot I think um Ethan on the H3 podcast which is a drama YouTube channel I think that he is an entp and that's something where you have a lot of Fe this going to be kind of a drama function um I have the next bll point is you know Fe

cares a lot about being tactful and appropriate but the ways can get kind of Twisted is this drama or passive aggressiveness which is definitely not part of the entp stereotype to be involved in drama one issue with extroverted feeling is affectation so there's insincerity pose dishonesty you know extroverted feeling is something that has it loses sight of its own Viewpoint and that can go as far as lying like on the far you know if we're talking about on the far side the you know the worst of the offenses of extroverted feeling there is some dishonesty

you know trying to appease different people in the room you know I've known uh etps they have a hard time breaking up with people because they just can't stand you know it's it's going to be so hard to you know break up with this person or to give bad news to people um and this can have this can lead to dishonesty this can lead to lying so something that extra revealing can do is it can idealize loved ones that leads to overlooking fault you know denial that there's anything wrong with other people so one thing

that I've been saying in you know all the personality types of these videos that if there's someone who's involuntarily single so they're single they don't want to be um a lot of times it comes down to this third function because people you know I think want to be mature people they want to find mature people um and a lot of times it's this third function that causes some immaturity in different ways um and so getting into that second function is really what lends so much maturity to the individual and your second function like I said

is the parent function and this one's the child function so it's important to subordinate this function to introverted thinking and allow introverted thinking to parent this function allow introverted thinking to set expectations for extroverted feeling you know extroverted feeling if if you're going to make us charismatic if you're going to make us you know really fun to be around and create Harmony in a good group and give me people skills then that's okay okay we'll use you extroverted feeling in that ways especially if you're 30s and Beyond but extroverted feeling we're not going to use

you in the sense that you know there's drama or using dirty emotional tactics to persuade people you know making sure that the order is correctly in Balance cuz you're an entp not an ENFP so finally your fourth function is introverted sensing and your fourth function is the direct opposite of your first function since your first function is extroverted this one's introverted since your first one is intuition this one is sensing so introverted sensing is your fourth function now this function is your underused weakness this function is a weakness but instead of like the third function

the reason it's a weakness because that one's overused this one's underused because since it's the direct opposite of your first function like that light switch you can either have the light switch flipped up to NE or flipped down to SI you can't be in both at the same time and since your first function is who you feel like you are it basically never stagnates it's been with you you know your entire life um it makes sense you would hardly ever have that light switch flipped down cuz kind of like a no-brainer it's like your first

function is who you feel like you are it's your number one strength your fourth function GN be because calls your inferiority complex you feel really you know not good at this thing so it's kind of a no-brainer that you would just you know 95% of the time have it flipped up to extroverted intuition um but that can be an issue because a lot of times people have the belief my first function and my first function only will get me what my first function wants so in the case of extroverted intuition this could be possibilities and

possibilities only will get me more possibilities but a lot of times this ends up creating a prison all the different personality types create a different prison for themselves and in this case when you pursue possibilities and pursue possibilities a lot of times that actually chains you if a lot of the possibility you know some of the possibilities will work out some of them won't work out um and a lot of times you know that can turn into risky Behavior you know that could be uh gambling like how could this turn out what are the possibilities

for how this gambling situation could turn out and then that could turn into debt and that could you this is kind of an extreme example but then that ends up imprisoning you so then because you're in debt you can't uh you know try more possibilities you become kind of imprisoned and so you end up if you would have just compromised a little bit you would still get possibilities with a little stability but then because people don't compromise they just insist on doing all of their first function then they end up getting imprisoned to something even

worse you know it's even you know less possibilities than they wanted so it's important to sprinkle in a little bit of introverted sensing you don't want to become like an introverted sensing domb you don't want to use it like 50/50 but if you could use like your first function 80% of the time and this one 20% of the time or get close to you know not being 955 so this function is introverted sensing so the word introvert means to turn inward and watching over what's happening inwardly and what it's tuned into is the senses and

processing the senses or you know what has existed we talk about the difference between intuition and sensing youve got what doesn't exist and what does exist you know to your senses so this could be an internal processing of like actually how your body's feeling am I tired am I hungry do I need water you know do I need a massage you know really paying attention to your body in that way there are quotes about introverted sensing being really aware of and having fine T and sensory or organs uh but also an internal processing of your

experience is pretty much like coming through your memories um so turning inward how did this impact me you've got this Rolodex of all of these things which have built up you know all these chapters of your life and how things have informed you so there were a few words used with introverted sensing that Carl Young used reserved was one uh you know traditional is one that gets thrown around um archaic is another one you know seeing things through um a million-year-old Consciousness that's a quote or seeing things through an archaic lens so it's a very

past oriented lens um a word that I use sometimes is timeless it's got a Timeless value you know what's not you know not fads but you know what has longstanding value over the course of you know millions of years so one thing if someone doesn't have enough introverted sensing they can like forget to eat or sleep it talks about the extrovert intuitives when they get on this new idea they get like fixated on it and they completely forget about eating or sleeping um so an action step I got this Arrow here I've done a few

I know um an entp and ENFP as well something I would wouldn't associate with an entp stereotype but I do know an entp who did this as well um getting into bullet journaling and especially to track routines in the body um you know introverted sensors you know typically are very good with like cleaning routines or you know getting a certain amount of steps in a day or drinking enough water you know kind of tracking but the bullet drawing allows you to change you get to design your own spread you get to design what it looks

like so there's kind of some creativity involved but you're also tracking some bodily routines um not enough introverted sensing can rebel against any obligation but introverted sensing is described as very responsible um so this allows you to you know follow through um one thing with extroverted intuition is it might start a project and it starts another project and it starts another project and they talked about that when you leave things so quickly you don't stay to like reap the rewards of it you were there for the planting but then someone else stayed behind and they

get the rewards of you know what you left so you know it might feel like it's like an obligation like stick around it's so boring this prison but you know you actually get a lot more rewards from it um extroverted intuition is described one of the bad traits with it is being very evasive or abandoning things there was a quote about they abandon things apparently without remembrance um and so that's part of that you know it could be you know might not be but the moving from City to City could be you know abandoning things

it could be running from consequences or you know this just felt like a prison so now I've got to leave it um you know just blowing your life up multiple times over you know it might not be but it could be um introverted sensing is a lot more loyal it's a lot more stable and a lot of times the stability that introverted sensing gives you you know if you've got money routines and cleaning routines and kind of all this boring just like everyday life stuff if you get that under control then you have a lot

more opportunity for possibilities it kind of creates the safe container to springboard all these possibilities so quote with extroverted intuition is they're easily bored with this life prison um so one thing that I think of if you want to mold extroverted intuition and introverted sensing together is you could try like a new routine each month so maybe you know maybe you want to work on your body you feel like your body you know your physical shape is kind of slipping but it's just so boring to go to the gym and do the exact same thing

every day um one thing is you could try a routine like so far a month you try to dance you try dance class then the next month you go to a different gym and the next month you go to a different gym so you keep the routine so every day you're still showing up but you're trying new things um introverted sensing it's receptive to things of lasting value things that are Timeless um a lot of times it's an interesting history I have this image on the right which is supposed to depict you know something history

related I know a lot of entps that are very interested in history um or when they TR liking to go to historical things within that City you know especially if they're older this is a function that really gets prioritized a lot more starting like 40s and up so this something that becomes um really important yeah so it's very it's interesting the contrast here where you got extroverted intuition which I notic a lot into like chat gbt or like VR um and then you got introverted sensing which is a lot more history oriented so they're very

different um introverted sensing lends a routine a warmth and a coziness so you know making your home and your space very cozy you know appealing to your senses you know couch with comfy pillows um can you know candles if that's appealing to the senses but you know just sprinkling in a little bit of this um and one thing with introverted sensing is they have longstanding relationships and projects so a lot of times introverted sensors the quote you know the issue with introverted sensors their quotes of how they do the same old thing in the same

old way year after year um so the negatives of that is not enough change but the pros of that is you end up reaping a lot of rewards like I was talking about with that metaphor when you plant things and then when you stick around you get the rewards um when I was teaching I was teaching with a lot of ISJ and they had been at the school for 20 years and then students are coming back and they're so grateful wow you're my favorite teacher um you know meanwhile you know I've since left and so

you don't get any of the appreciation you know when you leave things so much um and they just you know they got in the groove and they got better and they got better and they got better um with teaching as the years went on you know sticking with things you know with one job for a long time or one city for a long time um it requires like some difficult conversations requires you know the first instinct can't be to evade or abandon um and it takes you know it takes a lot of Bravery to you

know stay with something to make peace with the past make peace with your family um cuz family is one of those things of long-standing value and I see you know a trend that I see with the ntps is really having ruptured family relationships you know with their parents and then is they're getting to their 40s or as their parents or you know their health is not getting better their parents are about to be the age where they pass away um then I see them you know making peace with their parents and so I think that

that's something of longstanding value um you know if you're going to make peace with them anyways you know on their deathbed you know you might as well do it now that's you know family is something that has long-standing value unless things you know are really awful you know I think there's um you know something you can do to you know make it better so you know I've got the broom for cleaning I've got this little planner that could represent like a bullet Journal you know someone canning things um you know focus on the changing of

the seasons you know curled up with a book it's nice and cozy um you know you're reading the book and then you're turning Inward and reflecting about you know what you think maybe journaling about the day reflecting on the day if you do a bullet Journal you know a lot of times if you can do things retrospectively like processing the day and internal processing of things history something you can kind of like sprinkle in to your life a little bit more stability and emphasis on emphasis on like routine and chores you know all the boring

stuff so a lot of times I noticed that people's fourth function is completely absent because it's the opposite of who you feel like you are and then all sudden there'll be a big spike in this function and they go back to not using it at all um so that's called the grip when there's this big spike of the fourth function especially when it's happening to you you're not intentionally cultivating it it's just something you feel like you don't have control over and it's just happening to you and a lot of times that's in periods of

a lot of stress usually shortlived like maybe you know a couple weeks Max I would say grips are usually relatively short term it could be longer term um so this might be getting all of a sudden really into routines and really into chores and really into this stuff and then you know it's gone a couple weeks later so as opposed to you know this absent then Spike you know raising that a little bit most of the time so there's not this oscillation between extremes one quote that I've heard is that you don't know someone until

you know their fourth function like maybe when you first get introduced to someone you meet their first function then you meet their second function then third or you know the order might vary a little bit but a lot of times your fourth function is you know it's really hidden so like you're not really friends with someone until you've met their four fourth function like that's when you go from acquaintances to actually deep friends is when you finally meet this fourth function um and I'm always so grateful when people show me this fourth function um you

know I'm so surprised you know I think entps like you know when I first meet them you know I meet the part of them that's like oh I have my own law business or I do sales for Chachi te or something but over time you know then if you get closer to them then it's like oh I'll cook you dinner or you know it's a very you know it's a sensory thing with the food and it's this really like different side to see that type of thing so this fourth function kind of Whispers at your

life purpose it's not your life purpose in in of itself but it will kind of whisper in that direction you know what can you do of Timeless value you know related to introverted sensing you know something related to your past experiences you know how did you process your past experiences you realized what was of Timeless lasting value and then that's informing who you are right now so I think you know I really recommend people work on their second function for an extended amount of time like 5 years and then once you've really worked on that

function you know you've got the quiet reserved exacting with the language and everything once you really have introverted introverted thinking under control then you can sprinkle in some introverted sens and work on that for a couple years um and it has less bang for your buck than introverted thinking cuz this is still in the red zone and it's probably always going to be relatively in the Red Zone but especially like you know 40s and up this function gets a lot better you know I have really enjoyed entps this is a story that's kind of um

like embarrassing or vulnerable for me to tell but it's something that I think really honors entps and so I want to you know I'll embarrass myself for the sake of like honoring entps to like show them you know what's really valuable about what they do when Garrett and I first started dating um so I met his dad and his dad is an entp and I had just grown up in this very uh Conservative Christian environment and in that environment They Don't Really teach you to like question things that much and um that's which is TI's

bread and butter which is what ti really teaches people um and for some reason I was wanting to impress Garrett's dad and you know I just this is such an embarrassing story because the audacity for me to say this is just it's cringey but um I had told I had told his dad I was like you know what and I just want you to know that if Garrett and I ever have a disagree Garrett is the man and I will submit to him and his dad being the ANP he's just like well hold hold it

right there he's like we don't need to he's like we don't need to go that far we don't need to be in some like 1950 1950 Society you guys need to have like an equal partnership where you both speak about things and I remember going home and thinking about that and I was like wow I was like I never really heard anyone kind of question the general narrative and then once he had kind of brought that up then I was just thinking about things and I was like oh I don't know if this even really

making sense and you know it's embarrassing for me to think about now but that's something that I think is really valuable and I think it really changed you know the way that I live my life I mean I just think it's so I just I'm so disgusted by with myself you know just to think about like how I could have lived if someone hadn't just you know just briefly like challenge the status quo you know I think the status quo needs to be challenged so much of the time especially in a kind way you know

I think about these two examples of the ntps that was really like a kindness like especially if I was going to go into my marriage thinking that that um I need to submit all the time and that I'm never right and the husband's always right just you know by mere fact of gender like it just that was going to have really bad consequences on the way that I lived my life if you know he be had like done me the kindness be like well let's challenge you know let's challenge this for a second you know

and I'm just embarrassed to admit that I had I honestly hadn't thought about um that being wrong I was just in intro I think I was too much an introverted feeling and I was thinking about okay I need to find fault in myself where am I guilty okay of course I wouldn't want to submit who wants to submit so that's just a fault within myself I need to get rid of that fault within myself like it's not fun to do that it's not fun to admit that you're wrong all the time but that's something I

need to do and so I just kind of ration rationalized it in this fi guilt moral way that I would just be selfish if I ever thought I was right and so it's just you know it's just this whole really toxic environment that I don't think was explicitly taught but apparently it was somehow um because of you know where I'm at this you know where I eventually came to so yeah I really appreciate entps I think they're such a um a fun type I think I think I feel like I've said this in all the

videos the etps I feel like they're op they have all of the fun the smart the people skills you know they got all the skill the skills I value all wrapped up in one so yeah if you want more videos about entps I will have my entp playlist Linked In the description box in that playlist there's videos about entps videos the Deep dives into these cognitive functions um so yeah thanks so much for watching bye [Music]