Whilst I'm waiting...
I'm not writing here as much as I want or should, I guess I should be less Timlike sometimes...I just end up doing so many things, I never get anything completed before starting the next things, it's a good thing but it stresses me out a lot. I didn't put on this site what I came out as in those personality profiles (and tests) ... I've done the official test (with pen and paper - Myers Briggs) and I came out as an ENTP (it showed that I was close on the T and F - thinking and feeling)... then I did the test on the site that I gave you guys, and I came out as an ENFP one time and as an ENTP the other time through (obviously close on the F and T again) ... and then I did the test in Portuguese (cos I can! lol) and I came out as an ENTP (showing that I'm more of an ENTP and I really do understand Portuguese! haha)...anyway, interesting stuff, I'll put something on here...or perhaps some links...not sure...here's the list of famous ppl that share my personality type.
Famous ENTPs:
Alexander the Great | Jim Carrey, actor & comedian | Tom Hanks, actor | Walt Disney | Christopher Columbus | Arthur C. Clarke | W. C. Durant, founder of General Motors | John Candy, actor, comedian | Lewis Carrol, mathematician, author (Alice in Wonderland) | Sir Winston Churchill | Bill Cosby-actor, comedian | Thomas Edison, inventor | Alfred Hitchcock, author, master of suspense | John Malkovich, actor | Groucho Marx, comedian | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Horatio Nelson, British admiral in the Napoleonic Wars | Sir Walter Raleigh | Marilyn Vos Savant, person with highest ever recorded IQ | Dorothy Sayers, mystery writer | George Bernard Shaw, playwright (Pygmalion) | Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart | Oscar Wilde, playwright | Gene Wilder, actor | Weird Al Yankovic, comedian, parodist | U.S. Presidents: John Adams, James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt | Céline Dion
(And according to http://www.socionics.com/advan/famous.htm , these actors - David Schwimmer | John Cleese | Jamie Lee Curtis | Roberto Benigni (A Vida É Bela - Life is Beautiful) | Dick Van Dyke | Scott Bakula)
Fictional: Bugs Bunny | Wile E. Coyote | Fortinbras (Hamlet) | Garfield | Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet) | 'Q' (Star Trek - The Next Generation) | Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers' detective) | Indiana Jones, Geordi LaForge (of Star Trek: TNG), Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes) | Dr. Emmett L. 'Doc' Brown (Back to the Future) | Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
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.
Live their life: Outer life more with intuition, inner one more with thinking.
More independent, analytical and critical of their inspirations, more impersonal in their relations with people, more apt to consider only how others may affect their projects and not how the projects may affect others.
Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative.
May be inventors, scientists, troubleshooters, promoters, or almost anything that it interests them to be.
They are more excited about pursuing a new idea than about following through on an existing one, which can be a cause for frustration and anxiety -- both for themselves and for those around them. To the ENTP, all the world is a chessboard whose pieces must be moved in such a way -- by the ENTP -- that all the players will get the best and the most out of life. Constantly bombarding themselves and others with ideas, ENTPs burst with an excitement that, at best, leads to tackling one exciting challenge after another and, at worst, to an endless series of delayed or unfulfilled dreams.
They get pleasure and intellectual stimulation from arguing both sides of a subject, or from doing something unusual or unexpected just to get a reaction.
It is the nature of all ENTPs to test the limits of any system or person, especially traditional ones.
In relationships with an ENTP, one can expect to be challenged -- usually by whatever comes along that is new, different, or on the cutting edge. Just coping with an ENTP can be stimulating, a fact attested to by ENTPs themselves ("I find myself very interesting -- but tiring").
As parents
The ENTP's house may be crowded with the latest books, gadgets, fads, or all of the above. Children will be introduced to all of these things, which are used to challenge them -- something far more important than neatness, schedule, and order. The ENTP's parenting model is "Stretch thyself", and successful parenting involves whatever helps the child to achieve this goal. Most ENTP parents generate more ideas and possibilities per day than their children will ever be able to complete. This in itself can be tiring and, to a child of a different type, very frustrating. It was probably an NT parent, most particularly an ENTP parent, who first said, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." Helping the child to realize and expand the self is the ENTP's most basic principle of child-rearing. This quest may be made at the expense of hugs, kisses, and expressions of affection, although for the ENTP the process itself is the ultimate expression of love.
Creativity
Being allowed to dream up and pursue possibilities without any follow-through or accountability is the ultimate form of relaxation for the ENTP. It is also probably the greatest source of ENTP creativity. To give free rein to the imagination, instead of getting bogged down in the sticky details or dull routines that may be part and parcel of the idea, allow ENTPs' creativity to flourish. They find not only stimulation and growth in the process, but relaxation too. Stress comes from being tied down by too many details.
Growing Up (Children)
Like their adult counterparts, ENTP children are often whirlwinds. Lots of friends, laughter, projects, and ideas fill their waking hours. Each new day is a new opportunity to design systems, challenge friends, and scheme. A single request by a parent -- "to take out the garbage", for example -- can lead an ENTP child to spend hours if not days designing some sort of invention that will get the garbage from the kitchen to the backyard without human intervention. The design might demand calling friends, experimenting, or any number of other possibilities -- all of which will be more exciting than actually completing the chore.
Learning
ENTPs would rather learn by "getting involved" than by being lectured to.
That which is routine, redundant, rigid, or overly detailed is boring. Assignments may be completed late (or early) and may be done sloppily. If dull or unchallenging in their original form, the ENTP student may even change or reconstruct assignments in the name of "learning". This typically ENTP behavior may be frustrating to students and teachers of different types and may result in a no-win situation -- for the teacher, because he or she loses the ENTP's respect and attention, and for the ENTP student, who may do poorly in school.
Work
Work that allows the ENTP to be challenged and stimulated will be highly attractive. Work that binds an ENTP to standard operating procedures will be ultimately frustrating and, quite possibly, stress-inducing. Computer science, financial investment counseling, college teaching, and other theoretical pursuits are highly attractive to ENTPs.
Well, isn't that interesting? Rather smegging accurate if you ask me....love you all, God, you rock more than anything! Love you dad!
Tim
