Hey Dan here and I just finished up an ENFP Unleashed coaching call and
something came up on the call which is two strengths that you should really
embrace and enjoy as an ENFP and I got to be honest it's about 8:00 at night
here in Prague it's warm out and I did not feel like setting up the studio
lights and all that so you're getting a view a bit of a different view for this
video so these two strengths you know there's a couple things that as an ENFP
we absolutely love doing and sometimes we don't necessarily embrace the things
we love we often grow up with parents or with other people that put different
values on us and the things that we really love doing we maybe shy away from
because we enjoy it so much and we think hey that's not the good old Puritan work
ethic right if we enjoy it maybe we should do it less and both of these
things and don't worry I'm getting there in just a second both of these things
sometimes don't pay off right away they don't have the same immediate rewards
that other activities might but in the long run these can be two of the most
rewarding things we can do and I in my own experience and on the call as well
Kim and Kim actually helped really spark this idea and shared some of this advice
for younger enfps is it's really paid off in both our lives in the longer term
so the first thing is the love of learning as an ENFP I'm sure you love to
learn I have probably listened to 100 150
audiobooks something like this some of them still are sparking thoughts I have
in things that I end up sharing in videos I don't necessarily share like a
book summary but something I read in a book ten years ago for instance the book
the power of habit I can remember listening to that while walking down the
street in San Jose Costa Rica which would have been the start of 2012 and
things that it talked about in that book I still referent and think of all the
time when I'm coming up with videos or advice or different things like
this and so these this learning that you may love doing and that may sometimes
feel like I'm learning way too much I need to be doing and yes sometimes that
is true you need to be doing and not always learning definitely but do not
feel that it will ever be a waste the more learning that you do now it will
all stay in your head you're not going to forget it and it can help build a
really great base of knowledge and then over time you end up applying more and
more of that knowledge second thing is connections and meeting
with people surprise surprise as an ENFP you probably make friends quite easily
you probably love connecting with people and making new contacts maybe staying in
touch now I'm guessing staying in touch isn't easy for you in terms of an
organizational point of view but that you love just generally like knowing
people and keeping up with them and things like this and so those networks
those people you meet are going to be one of the most valuable assets you have
as you go forward whether it's for support for other people they know for
being your first clients whatever it happens to be know that those
connections you're making now are going to be really valuable in the future and
one of the reasons that they may be so valuable is you're not making them now
in a like cutthroat I want to make money I'm only being your friend for that
reason kind of approach you're making these connections because you actually
care about the people and you want to get to know them and make friends and
all that sort of thing which is why often the connections you're making will
be so valuable in the long run at the event I hosted last week here in Prague
one of the participants Tara one of the nights when we were out walking around I
overheard her saying something to someone else at the event that something
like one of the best things about working with Dan is all the people he
knows and it's just crazy the amount of connections because I think in Tara's
case I've referred her two or three different clients she's ended up
working with and this sort of thing and they've ended up being in most cases
pretty cool clients and good work for her and everything like that and one of
the things that is the cause of that is of course my ENFP power of meeting with
people and making those connections and just knowing awesome people that I love
getting to know and meeting and then stay in touch with and these connections
become more and more valuable over time and I'm not never saying that you should
be friends with people in terms of a connection standpoint but if you are
thinking in terms of the traditional mindset of like are you investing your
time well are you developing skills are you going to be successful this sort of
way of thinking which we'll talk about in another video whether it is a good
way of thinking but if you are thinking about it in that way keep in mind that
these things you're doing that you love doing will be valuable and maybe the
people you're meeting today are just starting out as well and so you're both
struggling and you're both getting started and you're both kind of in those
early stages but five 10 20 years from now hopefully more like five or ten
you're both gonna be well on your way to doing what it is you really want to do
and be in a great position to support each other as well so these two ENFP
superpowers the love of learning and the love of meeting and connecting with new
people embrace them I'm not saying you shouldn't also get to work sometimes you
can just be partying meeting people and reading all day every day but definitely
embrace them and don't hold back because the things that you're learning now and
the people you're meeting are going to pay off dividends for you for decades to
come I promise you that now I'm gonna show you the view here and just mention
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