Admittedly that indeed sounds like me, but it was not until I did further research that I was finally sold on that the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator is accurate. The first letter represents where I get my primary source of energy. My primary source of energy is E, which stands for extroversion. Minh Tan wrote a profile of ENFJ which went through every aspect of the personality traits to career choices. Tan referred to the ENFJs as the Teachers/Givers and wrote, “As an ENFJ, you’re primary mode of living is focused externally, where you deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fit into your personal value system.” I know for me that is how I tend to operate. I deal with things in a nonconventional way because I never
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My brother to this day still teases me about how he had to fight a lot of people because I was drew my energy from those around me being happy and upbeat. If there is someone that is just miserable, my energy goes down. I need to have the positive happy vibes from those around. In What Type Am I?, Renee Baron wrote about the extroversion, “You are energized by other people or outside experiences, as your preference for extroversion reveals. You enjoy and do well in situations where you interact with others.” This talks about how the energy from others fuels the extroversion. I do not think that I ever gave it any thought before about where I get my energy from but this is exactly how I work. When I am at the PTA meetings at my daughter’s school, I find myself being able to find solutions to the problems that arise. The more that the other mothers are excited about something, the more I find myself feeding off of that energy. Something that I was not excited about before I am suddenly all for it. It is not only when they are excited about something, also when they are really bummed or down about something. There was a project we were doing with art and every single day there seemed to be a bump and eventually they started saying that it was too much and that it seemed like this wasn’t
My brother to this day still teases me about how he had to fight a lot of people because I was drew my energy from those around me being happy and upbeat. If there is someone that is just miserable, my energy goes down. I need to have the positive happy vibes from those around. In What Type Am I?, Renee Baron wrote about the extroversion, “You are energized by other people or outside experiences, as your preference for extroversion reveals. You enjoy and do well in situations where you interact with others.” This talks about how the energy from others fuels the extroversion. I do not think that I ever gave it any thought before about where I get my energy from but this is exactly how I work. When I am at the PTA meetings at my daughter’s school, I find myself being able to find solutions to the problems that arise. The more that the other mothers are excited about something, the more I find myself feeding off of that energy. Something that I was not excited about before I am suddenly all for it. It is not only when they are excited about something, also when they are really bummed or down about something. There was a project we were doing with art and every single day there seemed to be a bump and eventually they started saying that it was too much and that it seemed like this wasn’t