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ENFP -- The Journalist

The central aspect of the ENFP "Journalist" is a desire to reform the world to correspond his or her own expectations of how things should be. The word "crusader" is sometimes used to describe ENFPs, and indeed many ENFPs can be found trying to right the wrongs they perceive in any system they encounter, often with great success due to the ENFPs dogged persistence and gift of communication.

While ENFPs may present a face of confidence to the world, they can be their own harshest critics. Their Extraverted efforts to create what they believe are necessary changes in the world often cause others to wish to follow ENFPs as leaders, but to accept the burdens of leadership conflicts with their Perceiving impulse toward remaining free from externally-imposed duties. While leading a charge may seem like fun initially, ENFPs soon tire of being expected to follow the rules of the organizations their efforts help to create. Their personal lives can also reflect this internal conflict between belonging and independence; ENFPs tend to alternate between pulling others closer and pushing them away, which because it confuses others can complicate an ENFP's relationships.

Like INFPs, ENFPs are finely-honed detectors of good and evil, but ENFPs differ in that they are more concerned with good and evil in the external world. They can become obsessed with uncovering "hidden motives" and tend to believe the worst of others. A related tendency to recognize only data which support their strongly iNtuitive biases can strengthen this "anyone not with me is against me" attitude.

At their best, however, ENFPs tend to be enthusiastic, energetic, imaginative and optimistic.

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