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In this episode, Joel and Antonia dive deep into the needs and desires of the ENTJ personality type.
In this podcast on the ENTJ personality type you’ll find:
- It’s tough to get to know the real ENTJ. There are a lot of layers.
- Napoleon was most likely an ENTJ.
- ENTJs are rewarded by society because their kind of leadership is honored by this world.
- Female ENTJs are often not received well because of imposed gender roles.
- ENTJs get the job done.
- They have a lot of perceived confidence. It often appears like nothing rattles them.
- Most of the answers we got on the survey were very short.
- There’s a sense that they can’t slow down.
- If they don’t feel confident they are good at ignoring it. Lack of confidence doesn’t serve them.
- They have a tendency to overvalue templates that work and never question whether they need to be changed.
- The driver process for ENTJs is Extraverted Thinking that we nicknamed “Effectiveness.”
- Effectiveness is fast. It doesn’t question. It just keeps moving.
- What happens when you’re wrong?
- The co-pilot is introverted learning process called Introverted Intuition that we have nicknamed “Perspectives.”
- Perspectives encourages ENTJs to not just assume their observations are accurate. It asks, “Is there a better way?”
- Napoleonic warfare is a good example of Effectiveness doubling down and not adapting to new warfare strategy.
- The 10-year-old process is Extraverted Sensing we have nicknamed “Sensation.”
- If an ENTJ doesn’t slow down and focus on the co-pilot Perspectives, they will synthetically keep themselves limited. Avoiding the big game and not fulfilling their potential.
- When ENTJs have some past wounding there is an instinct to avoid the inner world. They fear the Intuitive Introverted world. They worry about the pain they may find there.
- The 3-year-old process is Introverted Feeling that we have nicknamed Authenticity.
- This is about managing emotions. It asks, “What’s going on for me?”
- There’s a sense of avoidance out of fear of the inner work. The more ENTJs avoid their inner world the less they will reach their full potential.
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Unfortunately I must say it went the opposite of my personality. I am in deed Ni and Te but mostly self doubter, hughe lack of confidence even if I don’t really value third parties opinions I am always seeking validation on a professional level. I struggle with exposition which makes me run away from public and crowded places. I have an executive and not operational profile.
I believe entj are always questioning whether something is effective and is the best possible solution for a situation. In the beginning you said the entj’s are known for using what works in the moment and not really checking to see if it works holistically and as an entj I totally disagree. Perhaps as I grow older this will become the case but I feel well developed entj’s do well to understand a situation from a holistic standpoint and tries to find a solution for works best for everyone. It seems this was just a critique of the entj personality.
I´m an ENTJ (female) and I agree with a lot of things in this podcast, but I don´t agree with life being easy because you get rewarded for your “effectivness”-ability. I´ve struggled a lot growing up, and now, because of my attitude, always questioning “why we need this information”, “why we do this, what is the purpuse and how will doing this make that result” and “why the heck we continue with this when it clearly dosen´t work”. I agree that I get rewarded a lot for being able to get things done and for putting my self in the “blame-zone” when I´m being the one making the judgement call when noone else wants to, but I´m not that popular when I question how things are done in an effort improve things. I think male ENTJ:s have at least partly the same experience.
Another thing that I´ve struggled with my hole life is relationships. What really spoke to me in this podcast is what you said in the beginning, that ENTJ:s are hard to really get to know because we have so many layers. That is so true! In my life I´ve experienced so much trouble with making close connections with others, which probably has a lot to do with me not trusting others with information about my self (which has to do with a combination of childhood trauma and my personality thinking that all information are actionable), but also with this many, contrasting, layers of me that make me hard to get a grip on: for example one layer being totally able to disregard peoples feelings to look at the facts and another BIG layer of me being a person who is dead loyal and who feels responsible for everyone.
I think the reason why people think that life is easy for an ENTJ, and that we get rewarded all the time, is because of our ability to disregard our own feelings and move on quickly. We´re up on the horse again, so quickly that most people didn´t even noticed that we fell off it in the first place. When we do stay in the emotion/moment of we dont let other people know until we have figured it all out and can give you a controlled, thought out answer to what, why and how. (It´s not at all to be deceiving but simply to avoid giving you unneccecary information that you can´t use.) It looks like we never fail and that we´re in control all the time, but we do and we´re not!
To end this (Loooooooooong) post on a good note I would like to add that despite my personality stuggles I feel fortunate to be a ENTJ. I think that I have my personality to thank for my resilience to what my life have thrown on me. Because of my go-go-go-mentality I failed so many times in the beginning that failure in it self dosen´t face me at all anymore, which serves me well when I´m using my co-pilot and makes intuitive leaps!
3rd time listening to this episode. 1st was a year ago on 2x speed then I had my husband listen with me so he could “get me better” then on my drive back from Niagara Falls with my sister who is also an ENTJ and our spouses I was like I need to figure our why I was getting triggered and why I was triggering her. I slowed it down and took notes then got way more insight into developing my co-pilot. Templates! Templates! Templates! I make those all over the place in our company and while taking a 2 month break for some health stuff our staff and my husband are still using those templates and effiencent systems I created. He’s an INFJ changed some processes bc he looked at things from a different angle and now some departments are running even more efficiently then what I came up with. So yeah I’m going to keep encouraging him and letting him figure out shortcuts too. Understanding how we are uniquely designed has helped us grow closer in marriage, business, and friendships. I’m looking forward to doing your course :) thanks Joel and Antonia!!
I really do not like that I am an ENTJ. I even took the test a few times and tried to be more “feeling” to change the outcome and still was an ENTJ. Which made me laugh
I actually use a lot of comedy in my life and really enjoy what you call the “sensation” 10 year old in the back seat. Which is why i figured I was more of the fun loving ETSP type
But I am starting to see that I have been indulging my10 year old “sensation” aspect and that just gave the appearance of a fun loving party guy. And since I don’t have that “feeling” part developed it can get out of hand with abuse of alcohol, drugs or even being a workaholic – Whatever gets that buzz
I have never even asked my co-pilot “perspectives” what he thinks about all this. I made him ride in the trunk -
I also have never considered what you described as a “wound” and not being able to address or look at those kinds of feeling or emotions. I was raised to just deal with stuff and move on. I came from a tough blue collar bunch and “nobody likes a whiny, crybaby…etc”
So I guess I will get you ket and start to develop these perspectives and see where it goes. Besides I’m tired of always thinking I’m in charge or that everything has to be work and accomplishment. Maybe I will get to like and accept that I am an ENTJ