Importance of Knowing Your Personality Type 

Personality typing is not designed to label a person or to say that one personality is better than another. Each personality has its characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses. An empowering personal development tool, personality typing will help you to:   

• Understand your thoughts, feelings, and motivations. 
• Identify your strengths and weaknesses. 
• Make smarter education and career choices. 
• Become more productive at work .
• Maintain happy and healthy relationships. 
• Be confident in a job interview.  

Introduction to Personality Typology 

Based on Carl Jung’s psychological typology, Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Briggs created the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The MBTI identifies 16 different personalities and it’s one of the most popular methods of personality typing today.  

To explain how people differ in the way they use their cognitive functions/preferences, Myers and Briggs use the following preferences. 

• Introversion (I) or Extraversion (E). Where you draw your energy from. Do you draw your energy from your internal world or the external world? 
• Sensing (S) or Intuition (N). How you receive information. Do you prefer to use your senses to receive information from your surroundings, or intuition to interpret and add your meaning? 
• Thinking (T) or Feeling (F). How you make decisions. Do you take a logical approach, or prefer to look at people and circumstances before deciding? 
• Judging (J) or Perceiving (P). How you interact with the outside world. Do you prefer to have things decided and organized or like to remain open to new information and options? 

The letters that are assigned to each of the above preferences make up a four-letter code for each of the 16 personality types. This simple coding system shows you how each of the four preferences interacts, and which one you tend to use first.  

How you use these preferences can change over time and some of these preferences may be used more often than others.  

For example, the ENTJ uses the following preferences in this order: extraversion, intuition, thinking, and judging.

ENTJs are extroverts 

As extroverts, ENTJs draw energy from the external world, and they like to socialize with lots of people.  

Extroverts are easy to spot as they are friendly, cheerful, talkative, and energetic. Wherever there is a party, an extrovert will be there making everyone laugh. Despite their constant cheerfulness and light-heartedness, extroverts are deeply committed to their closest relationships. 

Personality Profile of the ENTJ

While the ENTJ personality type is quite rare and only about 2% of the population have this personality type, ENTJs leave a strong impression on everyone they meet.  

Perfectly nicknamed “The Commander”, and “The General”, ENTJs are self-confident, ambitious, driven, and charming, and they have strong people skills. They prefer to focus on ideas and concepts rather than facts and details. 

ENTJs could be called natural-born leaders. People follow them because they are popular, optimistic, passionate about life, and have an impressive list of achievements. 

Commander/General personalities are excellent communicators, and they are organized and decisive. They can effortlessly take charge of any situation. Life is short so they take advantage of every opportunity. They know what they want in life, and they don’t let anything stand in the way of their success.  

ENTJs are big-picture people who visualize future possibilities and devise a smart plan of action to turn those possibilities into reality. They can effectively organize people and resources so that their long-term goals will be accomplished.  

Failure is not an option for them but as they are highly intelligent and hard-working, they tend to have more successes than failures. But as they place so much trust in their abilities and instincts, they can jump to conclusions quickly, make snap judgments, and ignore advice about potential problems.  

When it comes to decision-making, they use logic instead of relying on emotions as they believe personal feelings can affect their judgment. Their logical nature also makes them good mediators. They like to follow a well-thought-out plan rather than being spontaneous and flexible.  

Because of their goal-orientated nature, ENTJs can come across as ruthless, insensitive, or even cruel when they are on a quest for success. However, they aren’t intentionally cruel. Being assertive, direct, and pushy is their way of getting things done to a high standard and motivating others to reach their full potential. 

Cognitive functions 

Intuition 

Intuition is very important for ENTJs as they use this powerful cognitive function to receive information from their surroundings and determine future outcomes. To interpret and add meaning to information, they use their insightful impressions and perceived patterns they have picked up from the external world.  

ENTJs may explain their intuition as having a “hunch” or a “gut feeling” about a situation or person and the strange thing is, they are often right about their “hunches”.