Personality
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ENFP

Wildflower

You met someone twenty minutes ago and you are already planning the trip the three of you should take together. Halfway through telling a friend about it, a better idea arrives and you are now describing that one instead.

You are at your best when a spark of an idea and an audience who is into it show up at the same time.

You come undone when the admin behind the fun idea catches up with you all at once.

  • Makes friends in line
  • Starts strong, wanders
  • Says yes on impulse
  • Feels everything loudly
  • Forgets the follow through

What you are good at

You can find the thing worth being excited about in almost anything, and it is contagious, and it is the reason projects that should have died quietly got made instead. That is not a small talent and you undersell it constantly.

You connect people and ideas that had no business meeting. Half your best work is a collision you caused between two things you happened to be interested in that month.

And you are genuinely warm. Not performing warmth, actually interested, which is why strangers tell you things in queues and why the friend you see twice a year picks up exactly where you left off.

What gets in your way

You say yes with your whole chest and then the admin arrives, all of it at once, three weeks later. What looked like enthusiasm to everyone else looks like an ambush to you, and you did it to yourself.

You start the next thing to avoid finishing this one, and you can dress that up as following your energy. Sometimes it is. Often it is that the exciting part is over and the boring part is where the value was.

And you feel it all at full volume, including the small things, which means an offhand comment on a Tuesday can restructure your whole week and nobody will ever know it happened.

Close up

You fall in fast and completely and you are not embarrassed about it, which is disarming and lovely. You give people the full beam of your attention and it is an extraordinary thing to be on the end of.

The difficulty is the plateau. When the discovering stops you can read ordinary contentment as something having gone wrong, and go looking for the feeling somewhere else, when nothing was wrong at all.

What you need is somebody steady who does not try to slow you down. Steady and controlling are different things and you have historically been bad at telling them apart in the first six weeks.

At work

You need people, variety and a reason. Put you on a repetitive solo task and you will do it badly and feel bad about doing it badly, which is a waste of somebody who could have been out in front of a room.

You are much better at the start and the pitch than at the tracking and the reporting, and the honest move is to say so early rather than to keep promising the follow-through and delivering it late.

Find one person who will hold you to things without making you feel small. That single relationship is worth more to your career than any amount of new opportunity.

The one thing

Finish the boring end of one thing.

Pick something already at eighty per cent, the one you keep meaning to get back to, and do only the tedious remainder. No new ideas allowed in. It will feel like a waste of a good week.

The point is not the project. It is that you currently have very little evidence that you finish, and everyone around you has noticed, and so, quietly, have you.

Often typed this way

  • Robin Williams
  • Ellen DeGeneres
  • Julia Roberts
  • Will Smith
  • Walt Disney

These are guesses, and we would rather say so. Not one of these people has sat the official test and published the result. Every celebrity list on the internet, ours included, is fans voting on strangers. Enjoy it as that.

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