So this is an interesting dimension if there was ever a dimension that divided people
across the land it is openness.
Openness if you're an ENFP that's where the N comes from. N which is intuitive versus being an S
which is a sensor. So as an ENFP you are very likely to score high on openness. So what is
openness? Well openness is essentially how much you gravitate towards ideas over hands-on things.
So people who score high on openness tend to be very interested in philosophy, in abstract
thinking, in possibilities, in creating new ideas, often reading nonfiction, they love to
learn new things, they love to develop different talents, they have trouble with repetition...
I don't know anyone like that... And there's also a component around art and the appreciation of
beauty. So the actual name for this category is openness to experience. And it can be broken down
into two areas which are actually quite different. One is intellect which is not actually IQ,
although there may be some kind of correlation there. The intellect aspect is all about ideas. It
might involve wanting to learn new things, take on difficult problems, reading and discussing
non-fiction books, things like this. Whereas the openness, which is the other category,
which I know is confusing because you have openness to experience and openness whatever...
is more about the appreciation of beauty, whether it's paintings or architecture or something else.
In the bonus videos that I'll mention somewhere here, I'll reveal my full results but I'm not as
high in one of these as I am the other. There's quite a difference actually, and you might find
that yourself, so you might be someone who's kind of moderate to high on openness to experience but
you're really into beauty, you are very artistic and you're not as much into intellect or vice
versa. So as an ENFP, unless you've screwed up on one of the tests, or the tests have screwed up,
because the online test for MBTI are not the most accurate things, let's be honest with ourselves
here, is that you are going to be moderate or high on openness to experience on this whole scale. So
what does that mean? It means a few things. Number one: don't get into a really boring
repetitive job. You are not going to enjoy things that require repeating the same tasks over and
over again, you need to do something that gives you new challenges, new learning experiences,
etc. It's one reason I love entrepreneurship, you always get to learn, I haven't been bored
in eight years. You're always learning and doing something new and if you don't need to, like, your
business is flowing well, then cool, you can add something to your business, you can start a second
company, you can always be growing and pushing yourself. So rather than fighting your desire,
like, having a boring repetitive job and then going home and like learning
new things every week, I learned how to cook this, I learned how to play this instrument, whatever,
you can actually be applying that strength in your work. It might be one reason I haven't really
learned an extra language or musical instruments or things like that is all my energy and I get to
do that with with my work ,with what I do, which is cool. You might have to make a change. You
might be in a really boring job right now and I get it, it's hard to make a change, but you should
probably do that. And the other thing is this might help explain some relationships you have.
I talked about in the beginning of the video, sensors and intuitives or people who are very low
in openness to experience or high in it, are going to have trouble communicating with one another, we
think a little bit differently. And so, it doesn't mean you can't still have a positive relationship
especially if it's a member of your family, but use this as a way to learn about them and realize
like they're probably not going to want to talk about the things you want to talk about and that's
okay. But you probably want to have people in your life who share this characteristic, so that
you can discuss the abstract ideas or philosophy or whatever else. Otherwise you're going to get
pretty frustrated. Now this tends to happen naturally. When I've asked ENFPs in my ENFP
Unleashed program like how many of you spend a lot of time with S-types, it's like pretty low
unless it's because of work. And that's because we naturally do this, right? If you're with someone
and you don't communicate well, you tend not to become lifelong friends. Sometimes you do,
sometimes you bond over other things and you respect each other's differences, but tends
to happen fairly naturally. So my big takeaway with this aspect is, to make sure however you
earn your money, that you're getting to use this part of your personality. This
is a massive strength. Whether you excel on the creative side, artistically, whether on
the intellect side, whether on both, if you're not using this in some way, I'm not saying you have to
move off to Paris and become a painter or writer, although I have a friend who did that and is very
happy with his decision, I'm not saying you have to do that, but you should be using
this ability, this is something that is very valuable and it puts you apart from other people.
So you should be using this in what you do one way or the other. Be sure to subscribe to the channel
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