ESTP Personality Type | The Doer | ESTP A | ESTP T
You know you’re an ESTP when:
- You enter into a flow state when you’re in high intense and fun situations in the here and now
- You challenge yourself by learning new skills and giving yourself challenging problems to overcome
- You get balance from interpersonal relationships and connections with other people
- You get stressed from thoughts about the great unknown, times away from other people, boring, low stimulating situations
The ESTP at their best is a spontaneous, adaptable type that gets things done. They’re fast-paced and effective and bring out the fun in any situation. These types are action oriented and like practical action and events. This type tends to push themselves by coming up with fun challenges and problems that test their logical problem solving skills and critical thinking. This type can however find such situations overwhelming and scary, and so, they may also retreat to more social and interpersonal situations that require less work and more carefree communication and talk.
The ESTP is one that gets stressed by the thought of sitting still or doing nothing, or long term plans that lead to little immediate resolution. These tasks can be healthy and positive for the ESTP, but over time, it can drain them of energy and cause them to burn out and lose interest and flow.
The ESTP Eight Functions
Extroverted Sensing
Extroverted Sensing is the driver of the ESTP and puts them straight into a flow state of high action, intensity, and energy. This function allows them to be spontaneous and adaptable just the way they enjoy. It gets them out of their own head and overthinking, which helps them break free from stress.
Introverted Thinking
Introverted Thinking is the challenger of the ESTP. It gives them fun challenges and skills they could learn to improve and can push them to the next level. They are highly perfectionistic about their introverted thinking and want to do things correctly however, and this perfectionism can cause them to become overwhelmed or anxious.
Extroverted Feeling
Extroverted Feeling allows an ESTP to get relief and an escape from challenging situations. It provides a relaxing and comfortable social situation which relieves pressure for an ESTP. In these situations, you can focus on less important things to you.
Introverted iNtuition
Introverted iNtuition allows you as an ESTP to tackle difficult and complex problems and existential dilemmas in a practical manner. This function challenges and stresses you to think up concrete and practical solutions to anxiety, uncertainty, and doubt. This function can be stressful and draining to deal with – but also highly rewarding.
Introverted Sensing
Introverted Sensing is highly inspirational for the ESTP. This function allows the ESTP to think and prepare ahead. To plan ahead, to prepare, to think about what you do before you do it. It can make your actions more deliberate and more fun than they would have been otherwise – but can also push and pressure you a bit as an ESTP.
Extroverted Thinking
Extroverted Thinking can provide fun and recreational projects and challenges you can engage in. Sometimes, it can be nice to engage in fun games and competition and projects just for the hell of it, without any goal. This can give you a sense of relief and accomplishment that you might not otherwise have experienced.
Introverted Feeling
Introverted Feeling can be a difficult function for the ESTP to access, as it can challenge your otherwise positive and enthusiastic attitude. Expressing this built up stress and negativity can be really important, letting yourself have emotions and to say and do irrational things sometimes, just to get things out there, to release tension and frustration.
Extroverted iNtuition
Extroverted iNtuition is a function that allows you to change perspectives mid an experience. This allows you to manage your actions and activities from a third person perspective, giving you the ability to discipline yourself and control your actions in more heated situations. That can be important sometimes – even though you’d prefer to just do things on instinct and trusting your own gut.
The dominant subtype
The dominant subtype ESTP is one that will put themselves out there publically, taking on the spotlight and expressing themselves and standing out from the group. They are people that will present practical opportunities and direct ways to respond to future threats and to stave off the great unknown. They resolve doubts by demonstrating in the here and now concrete things we can do to feel happier.
The Creative Subtype
The Creative subtype is one that will push themselves to constantly try their hands at new challenges and problems above their skill level. This type is highly perfectionistic and tries their hardest to meet these challenges and to solve the problem, no matter how much effort it takes.
The Balanced Subtype
The Balanced subtype ESTP is one that will be more careful not to push themselves too hard, and that is more cautious about challenges and problems above their skill level. Instead, they are more informal and people oriented, and rely on humor and a goofy nature to manage situations through their charm. This is easy for them to do, and comfortable, but less rewarding overall.
The Turbulent subtype
This turbulent subtype ESTP is one that is more cautious about how they express themselves and what they do, and more concerned with the future and the unknown. They feel less confident in their ability to resolve problems and think longer and harder about what to do, experiencing more doubt and general uncertainty about things.
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