I love being an ENFJ

I meant to write this for a long time but then forgot about it. Yesterday I took a fun test on Facebook, never really hoping to get correct results, but there also I found I am an ENFJ. I was reading the personality traits of an ENFJ and anyone who knows me for even two weeks should be able to confirm that.

There is nothing more fascinating than knowing my own self. Just imagine what the layers of abstraction are that stop us from knowing how our own mechanisms work. Then you take them off, one by one, and your own self emerges. I am glad that I remember my childhood very well, not just the memories of events but also the memories of my feelings are very clearly etched. That is why I can easily track back to match the causes with the effects.

I was reading a book on dog behavior and after explaining why dogs behave in certain ways, they have a topic called "now that you know..." This personality test was "now that you know" for myself. I know that ENFJs are called life's teachers. We are naturals in leading, teaching and working with others. We love working in teams, we get energy by being with other people, it gets really irritable when we are ignored... I should be a text book example of what an ENFJ should be. That is why I was always the one speaking for my class and thereby getting into trouble, I am the one who invites different groups of friends and introduces them because "the more, the merrier". I am the teacher who thinks of her class of students as young fresh minds ready to be molded with moral values, strong characters and showing them clearly what is good. I can stand and speak up when I think something needs to be said. I am the one who loves when my team mates do well because after all it is the team, the organization, the human race that needs to progress. Life is fun for an ENFJ. She feels happy, she is upbeat and her environment becomes positive. I am not making these up, I really feel it. There have been many cases when just seeing people at work around me made me feel good. They were not all talking to me, everyone was doing their own thing, talking, working, walking to meetings... I had my headphone on and was listening to a nice song while working. But I felt very happy. Then as I always do, I tried to find the root cause of my happiness (I do it for happiness and sadness both and I always find the cause) when I realized I was just being an extrovert who was gaining energy from the people around her. It is fascinating to be an ENFJ. Given an option I would choose to be an ENFJ again and again and again. Life is amazing when you are an extrovert!