Develop ENTP Strengths
1. Seeks out ways to understand environment
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Positive: Find solutions to escaping the fire.
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Negative: Talk to much, but do not action.
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In a relationship: Find a less sensitive felling types -> teaching them to consider other’s feelings.
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At work: Find the problem, the root cause to it => Find the solution.
2. Quicky and accurately sizes up situtions:
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Posotive: Take a lot of information about other people quickly, avoid bad situations.
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Negative: Usually say the solutions no matter it is welcome or not.
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In a relationship: Know other people sad but can not handle why other people upsets.
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At work: Analyze what is not good in the system, propose solution and move on => better in consultant.
3. Take risks
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Positive: ENTP takes risks in the mind, daring to think no one else will or could.
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Negative: Let others people to the conversation and debate in personal level => but they’ll do it anyway.
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In relationships: Allow partners to win in a relationship => if they love them, but how far they are willing to go in relationship.
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At work: If they have a change to make decision, your think out of the box and go beyond the unknown can change the world.
4. Thinks very creatively
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Positive: Ideas and also make sense to turn into reality.
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Negative: Difficult cooking chicken on the stove or ironing clothes.
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In relationships: focus attention long enough -> surpirses his or her partner.
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At work: Difficult to see project to start to finish, because there is so much they are capable of discovering.
5. Adventurous and outgoing
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Positive: ENTP prefer to be among people they can chat and argue with.
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Negative: Reject tradtions => Need sense and responsibility.
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In relationships: Do not good at emotional in relationship => But can attracting romantic interests and atmosphere fun and challenging.
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At work: Want to traveling to other side of the world to complete the task.
6. Adaptable in changing environments
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Positive: absorbs the change and move forward, no drama, no whinning.
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Negative: They easily switching opinions for other things.
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In relationships: They can go overseas, regret leaving friends and family behind, they adapable when it come to a life changes: marriage, buying a house or kids.
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At work: They make such good consultants => because they welcome change of scenary and opportunity to meet new people, make new connections.
7. Freedom is everything
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Core = Choice + Autonomy
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You want ability to choose when it is no longer fits.
So Why Do You Panic at the Finish Line?
- When finish it is no longer open-ended.
Tips: You are living with Possibility but not Predictability.
8. Commitment try
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Tips: Instead of “forever,” commit to experiments. (Try 30 days, 90 days, a single season.)
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Build in review points so your brain knows it has an “out” if needed.
9. Debate: You argue to find out what’s true
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Too much people, disagreement = disapproval.
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To you, disadgreement = engagement, and curiousity.
=> debate = intellectual play.
- Tips: Ask before you dive in and name your process why you debate. When reach the limit, know your audiences.
10. Shiny Object Syndrome
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Tips: Something news is shiner but not better
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Write:
- Write shiny ideas to paper until the shiny object loses when it’s out of your head.
- Break projects with samller phrases.
- Use accountability.
- Reward boring progress (film + coffee)
11. Starting is Fun. So Is Starting.
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Happy place = Momentum + Imagination = Fuel
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Most people failed at the middle.
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Tips:
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Start small + Finish fast.
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Post early = feedback, don’t wait until the end to share.
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Name the “midpoint crash” before it hits.
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Use reward system for yourself, thinking: Finish when your ideas live out of your head => The world needs that.
12. “Deadlines” of ENTP
ENTP brain measures time by: ideas, energy spikes and moods.
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If it’s exciting? You’ll hyperfocus for hours.
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If it’s boring? Five minutes feels like five days.
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If it’s urgent and interesting? You’ll crush it at 2am.
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If it’s urgent but dull? You’ll reorganize your email folders instead.
You’re not lazy. You’re not irresponsible.
=> You just operate on momentum, not maintenance.
=> Work in short and high-intensity bursts with short tasks.
13. Time isn’t real - but your burnout is
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Schedule recovery time.
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You get bored doing nothing, start another things.
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Catch the burnout signal.
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Learning to say “not now” without guilt.
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You’re learning to work with cycles, not againist them.
14. Charm, chaos and oversharing
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Layer 1: Banter
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Layer 2: Idea explosion
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Layer 3: Existential fears and childhood trauma.
=> Why you overshare ? Because you value truth over polish.
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Charm: high-voltage form of sincerity.
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Tips:
- Pause before the punchline: say to connect or cover something up.
- Match pace, not just envergy: some people open slowly, if you blow the doors too soon, they shut them again.
- If you go to deep, too fast => reset the stone and disarm awkwardness.
- Find a safe welcome, where the chaos are welcome.
- Let silence happen
- Learn where to shine, where to soften, and where to just be.
=> But not everyone deserves front-row seats to your inner world. And not every room is built for your full volume.
15. The Debate Club Isn’t a First Date
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Tips: Timing matters.
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Connection happens first, calibration second, critique later.
How to do:
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Ask before you dive.
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Signal affirmation early.
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Read their energy, pace, not just their words. - Deep dives later, after build trust.
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Practice holding space without filling it, people want to be heard, not challenged.
=> Intimacy grows in soft light.
When someone feels emotionally safe with you, they’ll invite your questions.
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They’ll ask what you think.
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They’ll want to go deep.
But don’t forget:
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Not every thought needs to be flipped.
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Not every idea needs to be rebuilt.
In relationships, your brain is brilliant — but your heart is what earns the invitation to be fully seen.
16. Emotional Fluency for the Reluctantly Sensitive
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Because it’s true. You are sensitive.
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It’s not that you don’t feel deeply
=> It’s that you don’t pause long enough to process what those feelings mean.
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You can control analysis — you can’t always control sadness, shame, or vulnerability
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You can not ignore emotions => You are not bored, You’re emotionally clogged.
=> Allowing yourself to feel discomfort without immediately fixing it
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Pause the analysis, name the feeling.
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Use metaphors, not metrics.
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Let feeling finish its sentence.
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Practice emotional honesty.
=> Emotions Don’t Make You Less Rational — They Make You More Whole
You don’t have to choose between being sharp and being soft. You can be both.