Hey Dan here and today we have a question from Baptiste, which I'm
probably pronouncing wrong, from France. It is a great question about meeting the
need for newness as an ENFP. You know if you've watched my other videos, and I'll
link to them here as well, on human need psychology and our need of enfps to have
newness, to have variety to get that excitement and stimulation where we go a
little crazy you'll know that this is a really important part of being an ENFP
so here's what he says real quick thank you for your YouTube videos I'm
also a French ENFP who is struggling with getting things done as with all
enfps I crave novelty and new things are exciting to me this applies to all areas
of life girlfriend's accommodation ideas projects that's why I'm interested in
advice around how specifically you meet this need for newness in various areas
paraphrasing of the questionnaire so what I've found in my own life because
I've had some pretty crazy travels I left Canada six years ago now and have
lived in seven different countries running my own business the whole time
I've had a lot of newness and variety there and at times I've been living in
one country with a long-term girlfriend and a pretty stable business and at
other times I've been bouncing around when terms of wealth where I've lived
and where I've slept in all kinds of things and had a lot more newness and
variety there and one thing I've actually found is that when I'm meeting
my need for variety through my personal life so by lots of travel and when I was
single and dating lots of new people I actually found that my business nothing
really that exciting happened for better or worse but I didn't really take on new
projects or do anything that interesting it's like that need was being met and I
was almost like run out of I guess steam by time that came to the business side
on the other hand when I've had stability when I've been living in one
place and had a stable relationship as well then I found that I really pushed
myself in terms of my business trying to meet
need for variety and get some excitement that way and it's kind of an unconscious
thing in this way that I figured out but it's also something you can proactively
do so first of all as an ENFP you're going to have this need for variety
there's no way around it if you can work it into what you do to earn money and
your day to day life to at least have some variety and challenge
please start there getting your need for stimulation through your work is going
to be quite positive and just generally through your day to day life but even if
you are getting that like I even generally get some challenge and variety
was what I do but I still need the odd booster shot and buy booster shot I mean
doing something totally new that could be a weekend trip you take could be I
have a friend now who just got back I wanted to go visit him in Berlin and I
asked if he's in town he's like no I'm coming back from Africa today I just
climbed Mount Kilimanjaro but I fly to China in two days and then to North
Korea so clearly he is getting some serious
booster shots of adventure that are probably going to last him for the next
year or two right and these things happen like you don't have to go quite
that extreme I would not go to North Korea personally but even things like
going to a concert skydiving may be some kind of extreme
sport or some kind of really fun event a music festival some kind of party maybe
learning something new that's like challenging and exciting though not like
you know puzzle or something that's interesting but not necessarily that
stimulating that will stick with you for a while so you don't have to do that
every day or every week but planning into maybe say once a month proactively
look at your calendar okay it's October what am I gonna do this month I'm gonna
go on a trip or am I going to go to a concert am I gonna go do some crazy
sport what is it that I can do that is going to basically give me that boost on
the need for variety so that's what I attempt to do I don't always do it but
I'm doing right now and that's what I would
recommend doing is day-to-day try to have some challenge and stimulation and
then on a bigger scale planet out on like a monthly basis and you did ask
about like the different areas of life and what I found as I said is it's kind
of an overall need you don't need to meet it in each area of life so as long
as you're getting that need for newness or adventure it's kind of the same thing
but different as long as you're getting that met somehow you usually you're
going to be okay you don't have to have newness and adventure in your housing
your relationships your business your health like all areas of life or you go
bit nuts so be proactive find ways to meet it and let me know in the comments
what you figure out what's the first adventurous thing you plan to do to give
you that booster shot of a variety thanks for watching if you haven't yet
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