Hey, Dan here and in this video we're looking at what is an ENFP T.
First things first, what the heck is an ENFP?! Well, you probably already know that but just
in case, an ENFP is one of the 16 Personality Types originally coming from a Myers-Briggs
system essentially, but it's used under all types of systems and brands and whatever these days,
and it is the type of personality that I am and that this channel makes a ton of videos for. In
fact, new videos every week if you happen to be an ENFP. But the differentiation we want to look at
is the difference between an ENFP T and an ENFP A. Now, this is something that I believe the
only website doing this is 16 Personalities, there might be other sites doing it now and what they've
done is they've taken one of the aspects of the Big Five Personality Scale, which is neuroticism
and they've added that in with their test and they basically attached a letter to the end of
all the types that indicates if you're high or low in neuroticism. So an ENFP T is an ENFP who scores
moderate or high in neuroticism. Now, this sounds bad, right? Neuroticism does not sound like a good
thing and honestly, I'm not going to lie to you it's probably not the best thing to score high in.
There are pros and cons though to being anywhere on any spectrum with personality types otherwise
we wouldn't have people within that spectrum it's just how evolution works, right. And to
understand this we can look at the two aspects of neuroticism. Neuroticism can break down into
volatility and withdrawal. And they're actually quite different. For instance,
I scored very high on volatility so overall I'm moderately low on neuroticism but volatility I'm
high and then withdrawal I am very low. And so these are actually very different things
and it's important to understand because just knowing that whether you're an A or a T doesn't
really help you understand this. But I'll give you the descriptions and you can probably figure
out where you score, okay? Volatility is like it sounds, are your emotions volatile? Do you tend to
change mood more often and does your behaviour change with your mood? So if something really
negative happens that you're in a bad mood you get easily frustrated all this sort of thing.
That's me. I hate to admit it. It's not positive but that is me. That is one aspect right. So if
you are quite volatile you probably like some advice on this. You probably don't want to be
with a partner who is also volatile because you can see how that could go right? You probably want
to find a partner who is lower in neuroticism and more stable, to balance you out. And you probably
want to work on it a little bit and what I found does help with this a lot, it's made a massive
difference in my life. Daily or close to daily exercise and eating really well. For me that's
low carb-high fat tends to be healthiest for me, my brain functions a lot better.
It might be different for you. Those things really help as well as consistent contact with positive
people. Basically good friends. Spend lots of time with good friends. Play sports, we're here, I'm
filming this in Spain and there's this group we've become friends with and they play beach volleyball
together after work every single day and they're all super happy people. It makes sense, they're in
the sun, they're with good friends and they're having a complex type of exercise every single
day right. So that's something you can do to help if you are fairly volatile. The other aspect is
withdrawal. Withdrawal basically is the amount of anxiety we feel about new and unknown experiences.
So people who are very low in withdrawal will jump into new situations. People who are very high in
withdrawal will hold back and not, you know, want to go somewhere new. They'll sort of look and be
like I don't know maybe I'll play it safe right. This is a big difference with ENFPs. ENFP As
are the ENFPs who are more likely to jump into things and it's one of the traits you often
hear about ENFPs right. They're adventurous, they jump into new things, they love to try things out
and you know go to new places, start new jobs, all this sort of stuff. If you're an ENFP T and you're
quite high in withdrawal that would mean that you are not going to be that comfortable jumping in
new situations and you may find that you feel a lot of anxiety about quitting your job and going
into the unknown of starting your own business or moving to a new country. Now, of course,
being high in withdrawal can serve some purposes. It protects you from the unknown. There are many
situations where wandering off into the darkness could be dangerous especially evolutionarily, but
now these days, it probably hurts you more than it helps you. We live in a
very quickly changing society and if you're scared of new things not going to have a positive effect.
And there is good news here, it can definitely be improved. I'm going to save that for a different
video. I actually have a longer video with advice specifically for ENFP Ts. All about this topic.
This video I just wanted to keep on the definition really what is an ENFP T. If that's you and you'd
like to dive deeper into how to deal with being high in withdrawal and high in volatility I'll
link to that video now with a card and in the end screen. I highly recommend checking that out we'll
go a lot deeper into this. If you are new to the channel my name is Dan, this is Dreams Around The
World and I publish new videos each and every week primarily for ENFP s helping you become
the best version of yourself all while creating the most awesome life possible for you and those
you love. So hit the subscribe button and I will catch you in the next video soon. Bye for now!