Personality

ESFP = Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving 

OR 

ENFP = Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving

After completing this test, the results announced me that if I do not feel this description is 100% me, the reason there might be that instead of ESFP, I am more ENFP in some certain situations or actions because Sensing and Intuitive perceptions are almost equal. Therefore, I tried to combine the best me out of these two personality types.

         According to the test, ESFP kind of people seek fun and entertainment in every task they are committed to. I could say that this applies to me as well, and I like the attention of friends or people who I know, and mainly in an informal environment. However, speaking up in front of the lecture hall for professional matters makes me very nervous, uncertain and uncomfortable. These are the occasions where I worry too much about what other people might think or would I seem silly or unprofessional.  But in social gatherings, usually, I forget about my barriers and frames and let people see my true me which is positive, cheerful and sociable.

         I love to talk – a lot more than being a listener. It is easy for me to talk freely, exchange ideas, jump from one topic to another and get involved in different conversations or even forget me in conversations for hours. However, at first, I really need to feel that I am socially secure and welcomed in the group of people, otherwise, I get the sense that people look down on me and/or do not respect my ideas or my contribution. I have even discovered an ability to reflect positive feelings of my friends or colleagues. I like to call it 'placebo effect' to gather all the positive energy and emotions from around me and change my mood along with this. When I go out with my friends, I do not drink alcohol, which does not mean, I cannot have fun. Here comes in my ENSP side, enabling me to use a ‘silly switch mode’ to turn from practical person to hyperactive and wild child like.  

         Moreover, there is more to find from the ENFP type – such type of people are both 'idea'-people and 'people'-people - outgoing, warm and friendly. I admit that I like to be social, to be surrounded by people, which makes me more energetic, productive and positive. What the result tell is, that some people even feel depressed when have to be alone and live through hardships, when do not receive any attention or praise. Here, I can say that I enjoy both- I know how to value my personal time alone – it gives me time to focus on my internal me and process the information I am absorbing every day.

ENFPs tend to have surprising viewpoints, and I sometimes feel that I make connections between topics or occasions which, at the first look seem not to be related at all, but in some odd reasons these recall me memories or information that I have heard or learnt from somewhere. I tend to think out of the box and make connections from very strange sources- quite often related to stories or my own experiences gained from abroad or from interesting situations. Therefore, the ENFP type of people is sometimes even called global learners, being able to put together a complex puzzle of information glut.

         I like to think I am free, spontaneous and flexible, which help me to generate ideas, make decisions without thinking over or planning ahead too much and I even tend to decide sparked by my mood or emotions.

What else the ENFP side of my personality shows me, is that I get distracted very easily in everything I am related to in my professional and private life. That factor makes it difficult to hold long-term relationships or friends because I tend to make new connections very easily, and hence, sometimes forget my older and more familiar emotional ties. I do not forget these people who mean something to me or with who we have shared great time and emotions and who I still mention as my friends, I just reduce the frequency I talk to them. Being a ‘people’-person, I enjoy my student job in the restaurant and like to interact with my co-workers and customers with joy and pleasure.

          From the minus sides of this distraction is, that I want to be involved in many activities at the same time, therefore, also tend to procrastinate and put off tasks which are not highly important, lost their freshness or seem uninteresting for me. Such type of tasks I prefer to solve in a group with some strict time managers who awaken my responsibility and willingness to compete with.

         Test results also bring out some suggested and suitable professions and career possibilities, which were exactly the same in ESFP and ENFP personalities. I bring these suggestions out in here:

·        Arts: (Acting; Performing; Fashion design; Dressmaking)

·        Customer Service: (Public relations; Sales/Marketing Specialist; Fitness; Nutrition)

·        Social Services: (Journalist; Kindergarten Teacher)

·        Management: (Fashion Merchandising)

         To make a comment on this, I am satisfied, and also positively astonished. Before making my final decision regarding my higher studies, I was very confused and did not really know what my real call is in this life. I have studied arts for 14 years of my life, attended a higher art-specialised high school in Antwerp, Belgium, with a purpose to become a Fashion Designer one day. However, at one point, I realised that even though, I like it, I would probably not enjoy making a profit on this and turned my course along with another path. I considered becoming a nutritionist, then a flight controller, film operator, high top surgeon, philologist and even a flight attendant. I did not know what my goal was, I was ready to jump headfirst into the unknown. 
Here I have to thank my mother who brought me down to the earth and directed me to the path I am at right now. I remember the last impulse for my decision was made by an Estonian diplomat, who gave a lecture about her profession- that was the moment I acknowledged my real will, and now I am here, studying International Relations.