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Your Type is
ESFP
Extroverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
56 12 50 11
Take it yourself!
http://humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
What "ESFP" means (compliments of Ebon ^^ Thankies!)
ESFP
ESFPs focus their energies on collecting concrete information about the world around them, particularly about people. They are outgoing, friendly, sociable, and party loving. They are alert to and consistently interested in what is going on at the moment with friends, acquaintances, or fellow workers. They love to socialize.
ESFPs are very much here-and-now people. They are keenly aware of exactly what is happening at the moment. In some ways, they are like a movie camera that is sweeping over the world around them. They focus mainly on specific, detailed information about people in that external landscape. That is how they view the world, and that is the world they love to be a part of.
ESFPs are practical and down-to-earth people. They are not prone to a lot of speculation about what might have been or what might be. They are too busy with what is. They are too busy enjoying themselves. They are too busy playing at work, working at play, and having fun doing it all.
ESFPs most often keep their judgements to themselves. When alone, they sort things out. They make decisions about what and whom they value. What others most often see is the easy warmth and sociability, the generous support and empathy. ESFPs don’t like to be critical or judgmental.
Life is best for ESFPs when it is fun. They are attracted to whatever is light and happy. They avoid or find boring situations that are serious, heavy, theoretical, or speculative. They like to help people in specific and concrete ways. Helping to bring pleasure to others gives ESFPs a sense of satisfaction. They like helping others solve immediate, hands-on problems.
ESFPs love variety and action. They like to make things happen. Many of them enjoy jobs that involve selling things to people. Their outgoing natures, their focus on the concrete, their appreciation of people, their flexibility and spontaneity, and their “gift of gab” all contribute to their ability to be very successful in sales work or any line of work that involves persuasion—including politics!
ESFPs are performers. Many of them, particularly males, for example, are attracted to athletics. Sports activities appeal to their enjoyment of action, activity, and competition. Many of them are gifted athletically. Others develop their skills by their determination, energy, and enthusiasm. Still others try acting or other performing arts. Others get into music. Being active and being with others is what makes these things appealing to ESFPs.
ESFPs enjoy moving into chaotic situations. They will get things done. They will bring order out of chaos. But don’t ask them to stay around and maintain things in an organized and orderly fashion. ESFPs will be bored to death, and they may create a little crisis just to have something exciting to do. ESFPs whose work does not provide enough variety and action may move from one job to another. As soon as a job becomes routine, they may leave.
ESFPs can suffer from being too impulsive. They are not the best judges of the time it will take to complete a task. They procrastinate before starting something important, particularly if it does not appeal to them, and end up working overtime to make a deadline.
It is difficult for ESFPs to be objective and impersonal in making decisions. They can do it, but it makes them uneasy. It violates their need to be warm, supportive and friendly. The least developed side of ESFPs is the world of speculation, the abstract, and the theoretical. They have little or no patience with anything that doesn’t deal with reality. It’s all idle speculation to them.
When they must deal with possibilities they are likely to go to extremes. They will either think of possibilities so unrealistic and so ungrounded as to be pure wish-fulfilling fantasy, or they may go to the depths of doom and gloom, seeing a despair everywhere and no possible way out. Because of their tendency to get lost in negative possibilities, ESFPs have difficulty dealing with their own anxieties. They do their best, therefore, to ignore looking at situations that may be troublesome. They prefer to put a bright face on things, to pretend that everything is OK.
When under stress or down on themselves, ESFPs become captured by what is their least developed side--intuition. The focus of their attention shifts from the world outside them inward to themselves. They pay little attention to specifics or to facts about themselves. Instead, they begin to ask questions about the meaning and direction of their own lives. In short, ESFPs withdraw from their friends and associates and ruminate on negative possibilities about themselves. They see themselves caught up in lose-lose situations with no way out. They see possibilities—exciting futures—for others but not for themselves.
For the most part, however, ESFPs are fun to be with. They add sparkle, excitement, and cheer wherever they go. They radiate warmth and sympathy. They can make things happen. They make things work. Their zest for living is contagious. They draw others into their fun-loving and often prankish activities.
Too many ESFPs shortchange themselves. They think less highly of themselves than they should. Formal education is often a major contributor to ESFPs’ tendency to doubt themselves. With each grade, school becomes more abstract and theoretical and less activity and action oriented. In short, the curriculum and traditional teaching methods do not meet the needs of many ESFPs.
If ESFPs will recognize that there may be nothing wrong with them, that it is the environment that is out of step, they may be more likely to develop and maintain the positive self-image they deserve. A little self-appreciation for ESFPs, please!
 Daine Salmalin · Sat Oct 21, 2006 @ 11:08pm · 1 Comments |
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