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[ENTP] Rant on ENTPs

Blackwater

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This is an invitation for all members to compile information on ENTP-problem-areas in the interest of ENTP-self improvement. Anecdotes, analysises, excercises, all are welcome as long as it deals with ENTP problems/ and growth.

And remember: Just because a type has a potential problem area, it doesn't mean that you, the actual person necessarily suffers from this problem, even if you are that type.

The classics

Can't follow through on projects

One-Upmanship

Social Machiavellinism

Intellectually superficial and unreliable

Over-competitive, pressuring others for fun

Conjure up far-out connections between ideas that as perhaps not really connected (Foucault is a good example here)

Prone to grow bored with a stable partner

Impatient, ever so very impatient

Poor external judgment, better at understanding others points of view than their own.

Take big risks

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I hope to see some nice contributions to this thread. I'll probably add some more myself once my hangover passes.
 

Athenian200

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All I can come up with right now is:

1. Too likely to make random, irrelevant connections. (But that might have been covered already.)

2. Can be crude. (But that would apply to several types.)
 

MacGuffin

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I kind of feel sorry for ENTPs.

They actually say out loud the crazy shit we INTPs think.

I bet a significant amount of them wind up in looney bins.
 

Totenkindly

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I kind of feel sorry for ENTPs.
They actually say out loud the crazy shit we INTPs think.

:D

This is why I love them.

I imagine crazy things, then just "drop them" as hints around the ENTPs and then sit back and watch the fun.

I bet one common question ENTPs ask themselves earlier in life is: "Oops, did I say that out loud?" (And after awhile, they just start assuming they did.)
 

Usehername

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This is why I love them.

I imagine crazy things, then just "drop them" as hints around the ENTPs and then sit back and watch the fun.

I bet one common question ENTPs ask themselves earlier in life is: "Oops, did I say that out loud?" (And after awhile, they just start assuming they did.)

lol

i read that 1 in 100 people are sociopaths in some psychology today article a while back before i knew about MBTI; i read the descriptions and was totally like "CHRIS is the 1 in 100 that I know!"
He was just an immature ENTP is all :alttongue:
 

The_Liquid_Laser

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This thread is like a car crash. I know I should just head on by, but I can't help it...I've got to look.

:moodeath:
 

meanlittlechimp

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The only thing I have yet to see in myself or other ENTPs (that I've met in real life) is the social machiavellinism. I've heard that in other places and I know you're not saying all ENTPs etc, but that one always baffled me. I just don't see it as typical if at all.

Can you give me some examples you've seen in yourself or others?
 
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GZA

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I've definately seen one-upmanship before in ENTPs I know, but I'm not so sure about the others.
 

spirilis

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:D

This is why I love them.

I imagine crazy things, then just "drop them" as hints around the ENTPs and then sit back and watch the fun.

I bet one common question ENTPs ask themselves earlier in life is: "Oops, did I say that out loud?" (And after awhile, they just start assuming they did.)

uhh yep, I totally agree with yours and MacGuffin's points :D
 
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Oberon

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Can't follow through on projects...good Lord, can't follow through on projects...

My home is littered with unfinished projects. It's almost a tic, like a Tourette's sufferer making barking noises. I hate it.
 

Totenkindly

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Can't follow through on projects...good Lord, can't follow through on projects... My home is littered with unfinished projects. It's almost a tic, like a Tourette's sufferer making barking noises. I hate it.

Honestly, I'm surprised you even finished this post.

(congratulations!)
 

ladypinkington

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ENTP's can tell you you suck in such a way that you still like them, blast their oily hides!
 

ladypinkington

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Actually I'll do a real rant- ENTP's can make you feel like you're the only person in the world and then they'll have nothing to do with you for a while and then you'll be their whole world again. One may feel like they are going back and forth between a relational dessert and then a relational lush tropical jungle. You have to be able to be an emotionally equipped camel in relationships with them.
 
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Oberon

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Actually I'll do a real rant- ENTP's can make you feel like you're the only person in the world and then they'll have nothing to do with you for a while and then you'll be their whole world again. One may feel like they are going back and forth between a relational dessert and then a relational lush tropical jungle. You have to be able to be an emotionally equipped camel in relationships with them.

It also helps if you like sex.
 
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Oberon

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Doesn't a camel have humps?

The sexual drive of the camel
Is greater than anyone thinks;
In moments of sexual passion,
He often makes love to the Sphinx.

But the nethermost parts of that creature
Are hid in the sands of the Nile;
Which accounts for the hump of the camel,
And the Sphinx's inscrutable smile.
 

lastrailway

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I don't know any ENTP. But of the type descriptions, they seem cool.
Oh, and there are those ENTPs who live in the online world. They seem cool, too :)
 

Ghost of the dead horse

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Actually I'll do a real rant- ENTP's can make you feel like you're the only person in the world and then they'll have nothing to do with you for a while and then you'll be their whole world again. One may feel like they are going back and forth between a relational dessert and then a relational lush tropical jungle. You have to be able to be an emotionally equipped camel in relationships with them.

Lol, what a fitting description.
 
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