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- From: simond@praxis.co.uk (Simon Dawson)
- Newsgroups: alt.psychology.personality
- Subject: ENTJ classification
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.114704.6270@praxis.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:47:04 GMT
- Organization: Praxis, Bath, U.K.
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- + David Caruso II writes : Any other ENTJs out there?
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- You suggested some transfer of info about ENTJ's. I'm a reluctant ENTJ.
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- When I take the test (MBTI and the Temperament Sorter) I am clearly an
- ENTJ. That preference for behaviour is how I have earned a living most of
- my life (as a manger in demanding/cost-conscious environments).
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- However, having passed through my mid-life crisis, I felt (sic) I would
- like to behave in a different way. I really tried to be an ENFP, you
- know, more caring more open minded, not rushing into action, not closing
- down decisions all the time. I even changed my job from managing a large
- department with matching budget, to a three person department with next
- to no budget in a tiny company. Damn it I still get ENTJ on the tests.
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- In the MBTI philosophy, it is quite acceptable (even admirable) to
- use/adapt/change your basic preferences with as much vigour as
- circumstances and personal desire warrant. Nevertheless I suspect that I
- am an ENTJ through and through and am unlikely to vary greatly from that
- type of behaviour. Part of this may be environmental. The ENTJ way is
- particularly successful in managerial appointments in the UK. As long as
- I am a manager in the current climate, this set of preferences is likely
- to be an asset and self perpetuating. It does mean that I can carry out
- redundancies, dismissals, re-organisations etc without a great deal of
- heart-ache whilst still being supportive to both the individual and the
- Company.
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- There has been some discussion here about type changing over time. I have
- always thought this possible - although I have now discovered it is
- harder to achieve deliberately, than I had imagined. Unless ENTJ is a
- particularly stable type ?
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- Simon
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