Sandra interviews a 13 year old with ENTP preferences and a 15 year old with ENFP preferences about what it is like for them as teens who use the Imaginative Intuition (Extraverted Intuition) function in Myers-Briggs.
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Full Show Notes:
For background information on the Imaginative Intuition function that I talk about with Lane & Elinore, check out episode 43.
If you’re wondering what a cognitive function is – listen to episode 39: Intro to Cognitive Functions and you can also check out all the cognitive functions on my Cognitive Function Cheat Sheet page.
Sandra gives an overview of the ENFP personality type. ENFPs use two main functions:
“Imaginative Intuition”
(Extraverted Intuition)
Looking for future possibilities, theories and potentialities, to imagine scenarios that are way outside of the box.
“Resonant Feeling”
(Introverted Feeling)
Paying attention to the values, desires and tastes that resonate with the self to decide in an authentic way.
Elinore is 15 years old, a sophomore in high school and has ENFP preferences. She shares her experiences as a teen with ENFP preferences, including:
- School online for the past year is more boring because she does not get to be with her friends. But she likes that it is easier to stay on top of things because you get reminders about when things are due
- Her favorite thing about school is learning things that help her be able to understand what adults are talking about and being able to be a part of that conversation
- Her least favorite subject is math because it’s tedious and boring and you have to do it the same way every time.
- She has always felt different and unique from everyone else and likes being different and unique. She is really into art and music and feels that her family is different because they all sing together
- She gets along fairly well with her siblings and has the most conflict with her older brother who has ISFJ preferences and is critical of what she’s doing in the name of “looking out for her” which she finds annoying and wants him to mind his own business. She also feels like they connect differently. Her brother, using his Extraverted Feeling wants to connect by agreeing on things. She wants to connect by exchanging ideas and opinions so she’ll disagree with him and he finds that off-putting.
- She likes that she shares different cognitive function with different parents, but between her two parents she has all of her functions covered (mom is INTJ and dad is ESFJ)
- Understanding personality type helps her with her siblings, for example, she knows not to take things too personally from her ENTP brother because she understands that he doesn’t mean to hurt feelings but just that he is just saying something like it is
- She asks “why” a lot and knows it can annoy adults, like for example, in math class when she wants to know why a certain formula works the teacher just will say “it just does”. She knows adults also get annoyed with her because after they explain why she’ll stop listening because she doesn’t care anymore and wants to move on to something new
- She feels like she gets distracted easily and has a hard time focusing on one thing for too long, but also feels like she has gotten better at it as she’s matured and as the stakes have increased. For example, she knows she needs to focus and work in high school because it affects what college she will get into
- When it comes to tasks like cleaning her bedroom, she likes working in short bursts, so cleaning for 10 minutes, and then working on her puzzle for 5 minutes, then going back to the room for 10 minutes, helps her break it up and keep it interesting
- She advises parents to wait before purchasing anything for an ENFP kid’s new interest because they may lose interest very quickly. She gives the example of the sewing machine that she asked for that her mom bought her but is still sitting in its box because she moved on to something else she wanted to try instead
Sandra gives an overview of the ENTP personality type. ENTPs use two main functions:
“Imaginative Intuition”
(Extraverted Intuition)
Looking for future possibilities, theories and potentialities, to imagine scenarios that are way outside of the box.
“Precise Thinking”
(Introverted Thinking)
Using frameworks and inner systems of objective logic to decide in a precise way.
Lane is 13 years old and in 8th grade and has ENTP preferences. He shares with us his experience as a kid with ENTP preferences, including:
- He likes math because there is always a logical way to explain everything that happens
- His least favorite part of school is the homework because it takes up a lot of time
- He thinks his Extraverted Intuition function can sometimes lead him into dangerous situations because of his tendency to be curious and try things, like when he went out onto a very unstable log in a stream in his grandparents’ backyard.
- He also feels like operating in this way allows him to really learn a lot of things because he’s so curious and needs to find out and pay attention to things other people might not
- He takes a creative approach to assignments and comes up with ideas that no one else thought of, like using sock puppets for a presentation
- He really likes to build with legos and lincoln logs. He builds it they way it’s designed but then will get bored of it after awhile and take it apart to use the pieces for other things or completely disassemble it and create something new
- He can get distracted pretty easily from homework or other tasks because he’ll find something else that will really catch his interest and will spend 3 hours on that and then realize he didn’t finish what he was supposed to finish. Usually he gets his tasks finished with just a reminder from his mom, but sometimes he needs to be told to just sit in his chair until it’s done.
- He likes to see how far he can go without breaking a rule, like speed walking when you’re not supposed to run
- He breaks the rules a lot, especially when he was younger, but only if he thinks he can get away with it.
- He learns best by being able to actually do something, rather than just listening, because he can actually play around with it and see what it does
Leave a comment: Do you have a kiddo who uses Imaginative Intuition? What does that look like in your home?