Thanks for this article! Am an ENFP (very close to INFP). Family are largely salespeople, ST types. From around age 8, from my environment I learned that sensitivity was weakness, and bulletproof lack of vulnerability was the only way to make it. So I got into a great job--for another type. Operating in ENFP stress-mode, which is rather like ISTJ. Finally had same job as my father at half his age, same company, and realized that I was just trying to please him. That I was simply a different kind of person, and that who I am is not weak, shameful, dominatable or wrong. I succeeded in business on paper but it has cost so much. Currently looking to switch industries.
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Thanks for this article! Am an ENFP (very close to INFP). Family are largely salespeople, ST types. From around age 8, from my environment I learned that sensitivity was weakness, and bulletproof lack of vulnerability was the only way to make it. So I got into a great job--for another type. Operating in ENFP stress-mode, which is rather like ISTJ. Finally had same job as my father at half his age, same company, and realized that I was just trying to please him. That I was simply a different kind of person, and that who I am is not weak, shameful, dominatable or wrong. I succeeded in business on paper but it has cost so much. Currently looking to switch industries.