When Si shows up it is only briefly under massive stress. It makes me get really weird about other people changing structures or details of my projects. I become a really bitchy ISTJ. A good example was two layers of my bosses trying to change shipment orders of my instrument at the end of a quarter when chaos reigns.
ONLY I CAN CHANGE THE ORDERS AND IT MUST BE DONE THIS WAY. Quite neurotic but it seems to be a panic last ditch effort to maintain stability.
older enfps seem to have grown into Si and use it to tone down the Ne flights of fancy and do so quite well.
First of all, it can come off as rather abrasive. Even the sweetest ENFP can be seen as a hardened jerk in the workplace. Ne-Te lays the smackdown. It can be forceful and aggressive and intrusive, on the negative side.
On the positive side, it can be quite efficient and organized. It's cute, actually.
We took the DISC analysis this week at our sales meeting. I scored exceptionally D and moderate I. In the text it said "When under massive stress Happy Puppy can become VERY aggressive and exhibit rapid shifts in behavior." Shock! I am hanging this on my office door. NeTe at its finest.
They kept asking me where I kept the bodies....
(My ESTP friend got told she had a personality disorder and all on the ENTPs are "frustrated" and "uncertain of their identities". Meditating ENTP actually got into an argument with the lady going over the results.)
The enfps all had two common requests due to Te raising its head:
1. Direct open communication
2. Do not assume passion equates with a lack of logic.
I sort of knew this myself from chats here but it was awesome to see it validated in a large peer group. Check out the NeTe thread of why do enfps want Te...those were both good.
I see a lot of danger though when there is no Fi processing. I knew this one ENFP guy who would create constructs for all the Ne idea rambles that went on in his head. Like when he believed his wife was cheating, Ne would generate a million and one possibilities and ideas about everything his wife said or did. Te would make it concrete because it fit into the construct of a cheating wife. He never double checked his Fi to see if he really felt his devoted wife would do that to him, you know what I mean? It was a like a beast on the loose with no internal analysis for validation or authenticity.
We cant see the unspoken Fe innuendos so learn early, to assume the worst when in doubt, in an effort to maximize protection of Fi. ISTJs do this too. Combined with Ne in an enfp this can be a disaster. Thus we really will jump to the worst possible interpretation of a negative situation.
I like the "Fi checking" as it explains why enfps can be so good at occupations like marketing or operations. It has to be big picture and based on shitty data with massive people contamination. Ne vision with Te structuring is required but the Fi is that visceral check to see if it "makes sense" from a people perspective.
I now have an ENFP COO and my new marketing director is an enfp. Our VP of Rnd is also an ENFP-all using an Fe flavored Te. I feel surrounded by happy, affirming love vibrations and abrasive, direct, blunt communication.
just like heaven.