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[ENFP] Personal growth for an ENFP is ...

tortoise

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... learning how to knuckle down to do boring things.

Well partly.

Developing Fi is cool.

But you also have to learn how to sit down long enough to do taxes or finish that boring job before the boss fires you.

Part of it is becoming more 'normal' so you the kids can rely on you to feed them.

Maybe we're the type that doesn't want to grow up. Ever.
 

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That's what orphanages are for.

And taxes are for pussies that like the comforts of living within the system. If you sell drugs for a living, riding your caravan throughout the world and home school your kids, they'll still grow up fine. As fine as the son or daughter of an ENFP can ever be I mean.
 

stringstheory

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Some of it is, yes, although i don't think I identify nearly to the same degree as you've described in the OP.

It's less that I don't want to grow up, and more that I don't want to "grow up" in the conventional sense.
 

tortoise

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That's what orphanages are for.

And taxes are for pussies that like the comforts of living within the system. If you sell drugs for a living, riding your caravan throughout the world and home school your kids, they'll still grow up fine. As fine as the son or daughter of an ENFP can ever be I mean.

:D :yes:
 

Lady_X

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i'll have you know that i'm the daughter of an enfp and i turned out just fine! fine i tell you!!
 

Wonkavision

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... learning how to knuckle down to do boring things.

Well partly.

Developing Fi is cool.

But you also have to learn how to sit down long enough to do taxes or finish that boring job before the boss fires you.

Part of it is becoming more 'normal' so you the kids can rely on you to feed them.

Maybe we're the type that doesn't want to grow up. Ever.


Tis true. Tis true.

At 35 years old, I have finally learned to embrace the boring.

I don't even mean that in an ironic, sarcastic way--there really IS value in it.
 

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My point exactly!

your point was that every children of enfp will be doomed to be fucked up in a way that they get mad if someone tells them that their mom/dad did a lousy job on raising them?
 

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your point was that every children of enfp will be doomed to be fucked up in a way that they get mad if someone tells them that their mom/dad did a lousy job on raising them?

No. My point was that every children of ENFP will be doomed and you being an INTP is proof of that.
 

Amargith

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Yeah...*sigh*

I'll take taming Fi over kicking Te into gear *anyday*

Blah. *pouts*
 

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No. My point was that every children of ENFP will be doomed and you being an INTP is proof of that.

doomed to be what?
 

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Cause some burdens make running quite tricky.

yes but what does that have to do with anything related to topic?
 

animenagai

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lol Yeah, Te is silly. I'm trying out LL's suggestions and making it into a game. We'll see how that works out.
 

Vamp

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Since I replied to the wrong thread. ...

... learning how to knuckle down to do boring things.

Well partly.

Developing Fi is cool.

But you also have to learn how to sit down long enough to do taxes or finish that boring job before the boss fires you.

Part of it is becoming more 'normal' so you the kids can rely on you to feed them.

Maybe we're the type that doesn't want to grow up. Ever.

For me that's not what it's about at all. It's about learning how to be an ENFP and really live; I've been conforming and repressing way too long. I don't want to have regrets anymore.

The boring stuff is a cinch for me because my life is based on routine, order and conventional practicality but since I started to mature there's an adventurer inside of me.

Fi has always been what's keep me sane wearing the practical/reliable/dependable/completely sane/boring young girl mask.
 
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