That'll drive any S or T type INSANE (and especially the super-realist STPs)!
It does. I've had two pretty close Isfj friends and even they can get pretty unhinged by it.
I've heard enough of "ENFP Wannabe." Can't you just be glad you have Ne and move on?
It is human to be impressed by another human. When one becomes interested in type then your perspective changes. All of a sudden that 'Hero' you had is a type of person that you cannot be. An ENFP cannot be a strong silent type. As much as we wish to be.
So why wouldn't the strong silent type envy the audacious talkative ones?
It makes sense that an ISTP would be startled by something wishing to be something that it is not. But it is also courting conflict to step into an enfp topic and perhaps unsympathetically talk down to a dreamer.
J.K. Rowling: "Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places." from a supposed INFP.
I wouldn't fret. I imagine that every type wishes that they could be some other type. Everyone is searching for Individuality. But ENFP's seem to be looking harder than everyone else. This thread isn't promoting ENFP's above other types. This thread is a response to ENFP's struggle with existentiality. It is a difficult type to be. Without inspiration we struggle with depression and obsession. When we are inspired we could easily take on the world. But when we are not we wonder who that Champion was. What happened to them? Why we cannot be them. Other inspirations will come and other defining moments. But when they are gone we are left with a person who knows that they have been great. But cannot understand why we cannot always be so.
It is important for us to celebrate the gift of intuition. Even though it sometimes walks in dangerous places. There is more than one way to be a realist.
"Of melancholy is a fearful gift;
What is it but the telescope of truth?
Which strips the distance of its fantasies,
And brings life near in utter nakedness,
Making the cold reality too real!"
- Lord Byron - The Dream