TJs unlock us just as much, for that matter. I had a frightening epiphany about a year ago with an ESTJ. I came into her environment for a second time. The first time, I'd only worked with her briefly and it had been clear that she found me too....idealistic. I've always been labelled idealistic and not really...useful. Yet this second time, years later, when I entered her domain as such, she recruited me instantly. I was kind of...dumbfounded but appreciative as I felt sort of lost. She led a group of people that she worked tirelessly to protect and had just taken me under her wing. Instantly, she put me to work. To obtain certain resources, she told me point blank:
'Listen, I know one place where we can get it, but the proprietor and I don't exactly see...eye to eye. Don't tell them you're affiliated with me. The guy who takes care of the place for the owner has a thing for a pretty face. You kind of have a charming aura about you and people like you, so why don't you undo your hair, and go talk to him to see what you can get out of him. I'll go scrounge up some leverage to use so we can make a trade.'
My INTP friend was standing right next to me when she explained this without even blinking and I'm standing there stammering and not really believing what I'm hearing. Meanwhile, my INTP friend bursts out into laughter, almost literally rolling on the floor.
Not half as convinced as the ESTJ, I walk up to the place as I undo my hair. I told the ESTJ not to get her hopes up as I had no idea what I was doing ( I SUCK at negotiation or bartering coz I generally care more about getting along with a person than obtaining what I'm to obtain). She told me that that was fine, but that she did know what she was doing and I should just get going.
I go up there, strike up a conversation, laugh, talk, smile and genuinely have a good time. The guy tries to recruit me for his firm (he was looking for people to do...some dodgy shit for him), I evade, tease him a little and offer up a trade instead. At the end of the day, he traded me for double what I was sent out to get (with the stuff that the ESTJ dug up surprisingly fast), and gave me several freebees to booth - to the point where he actually got in trouble for it and asked me to put in writing what we'd agreed on so he could back his side of things up. The ESTJ point blank told me that I'd been a good investment and walked away with the goods to go do her thing
I...was shocked. Here was a person who worked around all my insecurities and weaknesses and point blank told me my net worth. I'd never considered using just...being me as a concrete business opportunity before. I realised that she was using me to compliment her style of leadership; I'd effectively become a tool in her Te-box to connect to certain people she was having issues getting resources out of. I've never seen anyone use me in such a blatant ROI kind of way (though, thinking back, I had another ESTJ boss and an ISTP one that did the same thing - just...not in this obvious a way)
She also made me realise that there are certain things that I can capitalise on; things I considered normal and natural and nothing special. Things that I've just not mined enough. It made me reconsider how I could leverage myself more, what talents I actually had (something I always struggled to recognise) and how I could use them without harming others and exploiting them necessarily, but also without wasting them completely.
So it isn't just us that unlock you peeps, or for that matter, enjoy doing so