Personality Types:
ESTP
Also known as DOER
Matter-of-fact, do not worry or hurry, enjoy
whatever comes along. Tend to like mechanical
things and sports, with friends on the side. May be
a bit blunt or insensitive. Can do math or science
when they see the need. Dislike long explanations.
Are best with real things that can be worked,
handled, taken apart or put together. Hearty and
outgoing. Resourceful. Love activity. Good
observers. Good negotiators and manipulators.
ESFP
Also known as PERFORMER
Outgoing, easygoing, accepting, friendly. Enjoy
everything and make things more fun for others
by their enjoyment. Like sports and making
things. Know what's going on and join in
eagerly. Find remembering facts easier than
mastering theories. Are best in situations that
need sound commonsense and practical ability
with people as well as with things. Charming and
open to others. Generous and optimistic. Like
company and excitement. Conventional.
ESTJ
Also known as STABILIZER
Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact, with a natural
head for business or mechanics. Not interested in
subjects for which they see no use, but can apply
themselves when necessary. Like to organize and
run activities. Responsible and orderly. Loyal and
steadfast. May be impatient with others or
impetuous. Like to be involved in community
activities.
ESFJ
Also known as SOCIALIZER
Warm-hearted, talkative, popular, conscientious,
born cooperators, active committee members,
need harmony and may be good at creating it.
Always doing something nice for someone. Work
best with encouragement and praise. Little
interest in abstract thinking or technical subjects.
Main interest is in things that directly and visibly
affect people's lives. Sociable and outgoing.
Responsible, attentive and traditional. Loyal and
hardworking. Dislike obstructions.
ENFP
Also known as CLARIFIER
Warmly enthusiastic, high-spirited, ingenious,
imaginative. Able to do almost anything that
interests them. Quick with a solution to any
difficulty and ready to help anyone with a
problem. Often rely on their ability to improvise
instead of preparing in advance. Can usually find
compelling reasons for whatever they want. Gifted
observers and enterprisers. Charming and likable.
Not interested in routine living patterns.
ENTP
Also known as INNOVATOR
Quick. Ingenious, good at many things.
Stimulating company, alert and outspoken. May
argue for fun on either side of a question.
Resourceful in solving new and challenging
problems, but may neglect routine assignments.
Apt to turn to one new interest after another.
Skillful in finding logical reasons for what they
want. Inspiring and enthusiastic, Analytical. Like
novelty and uncertainty. Pragmatic and goaloriented.
Love challenges.
ENFJ
Also known as ENERGIZER
Responsive and responsible. Generally feel real concern for what others think or
want, and try to handle things with due regard for other people's, feelings. Can
present a proposal or lead a group discussion with ease and tact. Sociable,
popular, active, but put time enough into their work to perform well. Natural
leaders. Effective in interpersonal relationships and skills. Tolerant trusted
and forgiving.
ENTJ
Also known as TRAILBLAZER
Hearty. frank, able in studies and work Seek
leadership roles. Are usually well-informed and
enjoy adding to their fund of knowledge. May
sometimes be more positive and confident than
their experience in an area warrants. Outgoing
and outspoken. Like to organize people and
projects. Desire to give structure. Natural leaders.
Strive for efficiency and effectiveness.
ISTJ
Also known as SYSTEMATIZER
Serious, quiet, earn success by concentration and
thoroughness. Practical, orderly, matter of-fact,
logical, realistic and dependable. See to it that
everything is well organized. Take responsibility.
Make up their own minds as to what should be
accomplished and work toward it steadily
regardless of protests or distractions. Detailoriented
and stable. Patient and sensible. Dislike
novelty and frivolity.
ISFJ
Also known as PRESERVER
Quiet, friendly, responsible and conscientious. Work devoutly to meet their
obligations and serve their friends and fellow workers. Thorough, painstaking,
accurate. May need time to master technical subjects. Patient with details and
routine. Loyal, considerate, concerned with how other people feel. Dedicated and
service-oriented. Dependable and orderly. Relate well to individual needs.
Traditional and procedural.
ISTP
Also known as STRATEGIZER
Cool onlookers. Quiet, reserved, observing and
analyzing life with detached curiosity and
unexpected flashes of original humor. Usually
interested in impersonal principles, cause and
effect, how and why mechanical things work.
Exert themselves no more than they think
necessary because any waste of energy would be
inefficient. Action-oriented, precise and tireless.
Can be impulsive. Challenged by complex
equipment. Somewhat solitary.
ISFP
Also known as EXPERIENCER
Retiring, quietly friendly, sensitive, kind, modest
about their abilities. Shun disagreements, do not
force their opinions values on others. Usually do
not care to lead but are often loyal followers.
More relaxed about getting things done because
they enjoy the present moment and do not want
to spoil it by undue haste or exertion. Solitary.
Seek simplicity and freedom. Digest experience
deeply.
INFJ
Also known as HARMONIZER
Succeed by perseverance, originality and desire to
do whatever is needed or wanted. Put their best
efforts into Their work. Quietly forceful,
conscientious, concerned for others. Respected for
their firm principles. Likely to be honored and
followed for their clear convictions as to how best
to serve the common good Gifted and effective
communicators. Imaginative and intuitive. Good
interpersonal skills. Excel at problem solving.
INTJ
Also known as DESIGNER
Usually have original minds and great drive for
their own ideas and purposes. In fields that
appeal to them, they have a fine power to
organize a job and carry it through with or
without help. Skeptical, critical, independent
determined, often stubborn. Must learn to yield
less important points in order to win the most
important. Builders and designers of both
systems and products. Logical, evaluative with
positive outlook. Theoretical and somewhat
impersonal.
INFP
Also known as IDEALIZER
Full of enthusiasms and loyalties but seldom talk
of it until they know you well. Care about
learning, ideas, language and independent projects
of their own. Tend to undertake too much, then
somehow get it done. Friendly but often too
absorbed in what they are doing to be sociable.
Little concern with possessions or physical
surroundings. Idealistic and committed.
Adaptable. Respond well to the needs of others.
Dislike detail.
INTP
Also known as THEORIZER
Quiet, reserved, brilliant in exams, especially in
theoretical or scientific subjects. Logical to the
point of hair-splitting. Mainly interested in ideas,
with little liking for parties or small talk. Tend to
have sharply defined interests. Need to choose
careers focused around a strong interest. Logical
and precise. Persevering and thorough, somewhat
impersonal. Not impressed with authority.
Theoretical.
(Based on the based on PERSONAL STYLE INVENTORY by R. Craig Hogan and David W. Champagne.)