Next up, we are looking at ENFPs and the
conscientiousness trait.
So there's two aspects to conscientiousness. There's industrialness and
there is orderliness. Industrialness is essentially
ability to focus. And you could say work ethic, but it's not
exactly work ethic, because it's not as much your desire per se,
but it's ultimately what you do. So people who are low in
industrialness are going to have trouble just focusing on
the same thing, may get easily distracted, may want to know the
reason behind why they do stuff. People who are high in this
trait may like to just achieve. They like to get their work
done. They like to just do things, it doesn't always matter
what the things are, to some extent, to some extent.
Orderliness is what it sounds like, essentially, do we have a
lot of structure? Do we keep things clean? How would our
rooms look is a good way to think of orderliness as well. So
how might ENFPs do on these? Well, probably pretty low. Let's be
honest with that. This is one that is quite clear where ENFPs
are going to score low. Again, though, these all do come
on a spectrum. So perhaps you are an ENFP, but you actually
are pretty good at focusing and you're not that disorganized
relative to other ENFPs you talk to. Then you're probably
going to score more moderate on the orderliness and right so we
all operate within a spectrum. There's not just one ENFP. Keep
all that in mind. So what's the upside to being low on
conscientiousness, aside from annoying whoever you live with,
which can be fun in itself? Well, the upside is we tend to
be more creative, we also tend to be less judgmental and more
accepting of other people. And that can be very positive. For
instance, if you're a psychologist, and you're
extremely judgmental, say even like your personal trainer, and
I'm guessing a lot of personal trainers are quite high on
conscientiousness, it makes sense if they look the part that
probably moderate to high on conscientiousness. Not all though.
I know enough people who are great personal trainers, and
very fit and everything like that. But again, we're talking
on averages here with this whole series. If you're really
judgmental of people who cannot be orderly and cannot just sit
and work and etc. You might struggle as a teacher, like your
students are going to see that you're going to ruin their self
esteem, you're going to maybe create a divide with clients. If
you are a personal trainer, you're not going to be able to work
with someone who's very low in conscientiousness. And if they
can see that you're judging them that you're just so by, like,
you're so orderly, you're so hard-working, that they just
feel bad being around you. Actually, when I first came to
Spain here, I started working with this trainer for a few
sessions. And he was like a little pudgy, like probably more
pudgy than me, which is totally okay. But it was a little weird,
right as your personal trainer, and I figured out his target
market was I think somewhat older people who didn't work out
and like would feel totally uncomfortable with a trainer who
was like really ripped Mr. America or Mr. Bodybuilder,
whoever. And so that was like his thing. He was like really
baby face and really nice and not in that great of shape. And
I think it worked for him so good on him. Now with that said,
we live in a world where you do need to get things done, and you
do need to be somewhat organized. So what should you do
if you are low in conscientiousness, to ensure
that you end up having a great life? Well, there's lots of
different advice. And we could make a two-hour video series
just on this topic. But I'm going to give you one piece of
advice here that I think if you can implement will make all the
difference. Whatever it is that your creativity, or intellect
allows you to do. Even if you are disorganized, even if you
are not the best at sitting down and working for 10 hours, get
really good at that. If you get really good at a few things, or
even just one thing that uses your creativity and is of high
value, then everything else can get figured out. Whether it's
that you build your own business or sell your art around the
world and then can afford to hire an assistant cleaner and
everything else, or whether you're in a company and the
company sees Wow, this person is so good at this one thing, that
we will make sure that they have the infrastructure around them
to let them thrive. That would be my advice. Yes, there's other
things you can do. You can pick up some tricks to be a little
more organized, you can get help on your accounting from someone
and all this but those are band aids. And ultimately, you're
putting band aids on something that isn't a wound, this is who
you are. And so the fact that you are low in
conscientiousness, occasionally just means you're going to lie
on the beach your whole life and you know, that's it. But in many
cases, that means you're going to be much more creative and,
and have other abilities that people who are really boxed in
which is related to conscientiousness
won't have. So these traits work together, people who are low in
conscientiousness, are good with change. They're very flexible,
like something in the world changes like 2020. when I'm
filming this, I can't think of anything that's really happened
this year that might be easier for people who are good with
handling change and comfortable with variety and uncertainty. I
don't, can't think of anything that's really been happening
this year. But maybe in other years, when the world is crazy,
people who are low in conscientiousness can actually
do better because if someone built all their life on
orderliness and things have to stay the same, it's kind of
tough for them when things are changing all the time, right. So
there's a reason like evolutionarily that a lot of us
are low in conscientiousness, we serve a purpose. And that's what
you have to work on. Don't try to band aid this supposed
wound which isn't a wound, but a lot of teachers are shitty
managers, or whoever might tell you it is instead focus on what
you do really great because of this, and then just get good at
that, earn lots of money for that and then you can handle
the little things that come up in life, maybe as a result of
not being too clean.
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