#entp analysis

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE reading analyses of how different relationships between the types work out.

But when I see things like this:

I die on the inside.

SORRY GUYS TIME TO RANT

In order to explain myself a bit, lets say we take two ENTPs. One is outgoing, confident and slightly crazy. The other is judgemental, independent and uncaring of other people’s opinions about them. They’re two completely different types of people, how come they both type as ENTPs?

Well, the answer to that is that contrary to popular belief, MBTI isn’t actually about your personality, it’s about how your mind functions.

The reason why these two ENTPs with such similar minds are so different is because they’re two different people. They’ve grown up in different environments, had different experiences, had different people they look up to, the list goes on.

A friend one ENTP may call a blessing, another ENTP may call toxic and a chore to be around. You CAN’T just highlight a blue box saying that INFJs and INTJs are the ideal match for ALL ENTPs because they’re not.

MBTI is great because it’s a decently reliable method that allows YOU to categorise who YOU get along with. However, to look at a table like the one shown above, done by some random individual who hasn’t even experienced the majority of those relationships, and judge whether or not you should pursue a relationship based on the coloured box they associated with that type is frankly ridiculous.

By all means, use the MBTI typing system to your advantage. Type your friends and try to find patterns in those who you get along with. For example, I’ve found that although I have a lot of NF friends, being around them too much drains me. It’s the NTs who I tend to like more genuinely. However, for many other ENTPs it’s the complete opposite. And that’s fine!

Hell, I have an ENFP friend who’s in a relationship with an ISFJ and even though on this compatibility chart there was a red square saying that that relationship wouldn’t work, those two individuals HAVE made it work. And honestly, it’s a brilliant relationship.

So to sum up, any type can get along with any type and any type can full out despise any type. Some people have done amazingly accurate analyses of how relationships between types play out and they can give you incredible insight making you scream YES THAT’S US!

However, charts like these do not. They just make you doubt yourself if the relationship you’re in does not have a blue box associated with it. So yeah, just do yourself a favour and don't bother with these compatibility charts because they help no one.

Intuition

Outgoing, friendly, goofy and weird, everybody can’t help but love this version of you. You’re the one taking the spotlight, most likely with a crazy story that happened to you in the past. Although you’re loud, talkative and annoying, this is the side of your personality you love. So why don’t you keep it up all the time? Well… it’s exhausting.

You can only really act this way if you’re surrounded by people you like and are comfortable with. If your not around any familiar faces, most likely you’ll be more subsided. This leads us to the second ENTP mode.

Thinking

This mode is the analysing mode, the reason why you judge people so much and secretly dislike the majority of people.

Have you noticed in group conversations with people you don’t really know, you’re strangely subsided? Yup, that’s your thinking mode, trying to analyse the situation instead of partaking in it. Thinking is your introverted mode so instead of taking the spotlight in an unfamiliar group conversation, normally you’ll just add in a sarcastic or funny comment.

Feeling

This is your people pleasing mode. A good listener and aware of other people’s emotions. Sure, you dislike most people but you don’t like it when other people dislike you. That’s why you’ll go out of your way to be super nice to certain people.

Micromanagers

Micromanaging, when people feel the need to obsess and find out every little detail about you. They’ll freak when they find you were getting along well with that guy/girl at a party. They’ll message you about 50 times a day, trying to find out where you are every 5 seconds. They’ll ask all your friends about you, trying to get as many details of your personal life as they can. Insecure, overly needy and clingy, they obsess over the idea of you.

Yeah, if this is you, stop. It’s not cute, it’s freaky. ENTPs all around the world will run in the opposite direction.

People pleasers & attention seekers

So there’s this thing called dignity. Sure, I’ll charm people if I want my way. Sure, if I crave attention I’ll recall a crazy story and people will flock around. But the idea of stripping myself of my dignity and throwing myself at others in hopes they’ll accept me, it’s disgusting.

If you cry and throw an unnecessary fuss just to get people to pity you, be warned ENTPs will see through you as clear as day. We’ll have lost all our respect towards you and frankly, we won’t want anything to do with you.

Illogicalness & the inability to listen to reason

People with strong emotions are great, sometimes they are crazy inspiring. But when they’re so focused on their own emotions and views that they refuse to listen to any logic you present them with... it’s annoying.

The ENTP awkward phase is a time, normally in the teen years, where the naturally goofy and loveable ENTP, represses themselves in order to fit in. 

The problem with this is that ENTPs are well... naturally unique. Not everyone is like them which is why they're one of the rarer personalities. Yet they want to fit in somewhat and to do this, they start repressing their naturally unique personality. It could be their weirdness, their loudness, their talkative nature, their annoyingness or anything really. But repressing it feels awful and it can lead the ENTP to feeling really upset.

When in this phase, ENTPs may fit in, but can still come across as rather introverted or just awkward. Yet this frustrates the ENTP because they know that that isn't themselves at their best, and it feels like barely anyone knows what they're actually like.

It can be hard to break out of this phase and be your happy ENTP self again, but the key is to not care about others. Their expectations shouldn't be stopping you from being yourself. It doesn't matter if they think you're kind or not, what matters is your happiness and if being yourself upsets them, then that's too bad.

Show her your wits, your great comebacks, your badass leadership skills and show her what a loveable person you are beneath your cooler exterior. But most importantly, talk to her.

Find a common interest between you guys and just talk, thats where the magic between ENTPs and INTJs lies. Like impressing us is great but honestly, a completely outrageous and ridiculous conversation that has us both rolling around with laughter is going to win our affection way more than ‘impressing us’ ever will.

No problem! Basically, on the outside they’re really similar: loveable, imaginative and huge procrastinators. There are quite a few differences though.

One way to tell who’s who is that in an argument, ENFPs are going to get frustrated with the insensitive and rude one. ENTPs on the other hand will get irritated by emotional and illogical one.

Hahaha well you INTJ’s are just as bad. I keep thinking I’ve analysed you but you always keep surprising me :’)

But honestly, ENTPs don’t mind if you don’t get us, since most people don’t. It’s not that important for us in a relationship/friendship. After all, we’re pretty complex people with a lot of different sides we show off to different people.

Also, we hate the idea of being predictable or see-through to the public so we make sure we don’t come across that way. So you probably won’t be able to analyse too well from afar.

I suggest getting close to the ENTP and have them genuinely like you. Once you do this, they’ll hopefully show you their main personality which will be a LOT easier to analyse.