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MBTI Guide: ENFP - The Hero

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 The hero is a character characterized by the ability to extrapolate, is driven by values, is inspiring, social, and very articulate. The hero is constantly releasing his ideas to the world as a way to attract attention to what he believes is important, which is usually related to morality or current events.


The hero is a natural propaganda figure, with an excellent ability to attract people's attention to himself or to the issues in which he believes, using his social skills, honesty, energy, and positivity. A hero can be described as a creative, resourceful, spontaneous, loving, charismatic, and passionate person. Personal tendencies: extroverted, intuitive, emotional, and easy-going. It is one of the idealists by the moods Chrissy theory. The percentage of heroes, according to a study conducted on a sample of the American people, ranges between 6-8%.

Overview of the hero's character:

In dealing with the outside world, the hero has two situations. The first case is internal, where the hero uses his intuition to take a position on things around him. The other situation is external, through which the hero deals with situations according to what he believes in and is consistent with his principles. The hero is a warm and emotional person. He has a gift that distinguishes him from all other types, which is to inspire and motivate people. The hero lives in a world full of opportunities and possibilities. Because he considers life a special gift, he tries to take advantage of every moment and every opportunity he can.


The hero is often proficient in a very large number of skills, aided by his nature, which enables him to master anything he sincerely desires and cares about. The hero may move between several projects or several jobs during his life, which makes him appear distracted, unstable, and without a goal to follow. But in reality, the hero follows what his conscience tells him and truly believes in, and therefore he may move between several projects or jobs. The hero needs to live his life feeling like he is living it while behaving as he is, and taking the steps that go on the path of what he feels is right. The hero sees a meaning in everything in life, and throughout his life, he searches for the agreement of what he does in his life with what he believes in to feel security and self-satisfaction. Since feelings constitute an important part of the hero’s life, the hero often has a sensitive sense and a very developed system of principles and values.


When a hero is working, he needs to focus to finish his project. This can be a problem for many heroes. Unlike all extroverts or sociable people, the hero needs to be alone to focus on finishing his project. The hero who develops himself so that he can focus on a project until he finishes it before moving on to another will be successful in his life, while the one who fails to develop himself in that field will often acquire the habit of moving on from his project before finishing it as soon as he sees his opportunities in a new project and therefore will not be able to achieve. A great success he could have achieved.


The hero often has the skill of dealing with people and is distinguished at it. Also, the hero is full of feelings cares a lot about people and their feelings, and attaches great importance to his relationships. The hero in most cases loves to be loved by people. Sometimes, especially in his early years, the hero may be seen as very loyal and very attached to his friends, out of his desire to be accepted. Once the hero learns to mediate and balance his relationship. After that, the hero becomes distinguished in extracting the best from people and also becomes loved by the people around him. The hero has a great ability to understand people's feelings, and also understand their natures and what they want, even if they do not say them. But that does not mean that he does not make wrong conclusions, especially if the hero tries to apply his intuition to the values in which he believes.


Because the hero lives in a world full of possibilities and possibilities, he does not pay attention to the minute details and considers them trivial. It has no room for fine-grained and detailed tasks and tasks of the nature of maintenance or debugging. The hero often ignores this type of task, and when it is imposed on him, he performs it with extreme restlessness and boredom. This type of task is the hero's real challenge in life.


The hero is by nature a happy person. But he may not be like that if he is assigned simple and ridiculous tasks, or is required to have a precise work schedule. Therefore, the hero can produce when he is given a lot of flexibility in his work, and when he is asked to work with people and ideas. Many heroes go to work on private businesses and personal projects. The hero has a high productive capacity when he works in a field where there is not much supervision and when he is interested and passionate about what he does.


The hero tends to be independent and always resists being controlled. He needs to control himself and at the same time does not see the need to control others. The hero is a kind, simple, risk-taking, and sensitive character. The hero has many talents that help him stand out and outperform his peers if he can control himself and master the art of pursuing the work to the end.


Hero as husband/wife:

The hero is an emotional, warm, and appreciative character. The hero does anything to make his marriage successful. He is enthusiastic, idealistic, and focused on his husband's feelings. All of the above makes him a husband capable of strengthening the relationship and making it stronger.


Several points may be a flaw in the heroic husband, the first of which is that he has a problem in ending bad relationships, so he tries to continue the marital relationship even if he sees that it is going in the wrong direction. Even if the relationship reaches a dead end and ends in separation, he sees himself as the reason for the failure of the relationship blames himself, and always tells himself that there is something he could have done to make the relationship successful. Also, the hero gets bored quickly. If his relationship does not change and his husband helps him add some structure and diversification to marital life, he is bound to get bored. Personal relationships in the hero’s life constitute an important part, and therefore the hero always asks his husband about his opinion and the progress of the relationship. Too many questions can be kind of boring. But it may also help to discover problems in the relationship and fix them before they escalate.


The hero needs to constantly hear positive expressions and praise from his husband. The hero does not like to hint or search for these phrases but rather wants them to be direct and frank. The hero needs to know that he is loved and that his husband feels happy because he is with the hero. This may not be selfishness on the part of the hero, but rather because he gets happiness from seeing the happiness of others, he needs to hear that his husband is happy with him.


The hero hates criticism and disagreements. He sees criticism as an attack on his character, and as for differences, he prefers to ignore them rather than deal with them directly. Therefore, the husband should be aware of this point and deal with it with caution. The hero needs to know that disagreements do not mean the end of the relationship or the world, but rather are a step on the path to solving problems, while criticism is the path to discovering mistakes and developing oneself.


Although any relationship between people of the 16 classifications may be successful, the hero's natural partner or spouse is a scientist (INTJ) or a lawyer (INFJ).


The hero as a parent:

The hero takes fatherhood seriously, but that does not mean that he does not have fun and play with his children. This does not make him forget to pass on his values and beliefs to his sons and daughters. He always strives for his children to grow up in a good and ideal environment. The hero’s dealings with his children may create confusion for the children because in a moment he is the friend who descends to the children’s level and caresses them, but as soon as the son or daughter violates one of the father’s beliefs or values, he moves to issue orders and guidance.


The hero's children feel loved, as the hero gives them all the love and affection they need. At the same time, he treats each of his children as an independent person with independent characteristics and character, which gives them room to develop and mature as independent individuals. But the hero's enthusiasm and affection for his children may make them feel that he is very urgent. This will be especially true for intellectual or sensual children, who will not understand the hero’s emotion or will feel embarrassed if the hero’s enthusiasm or emotion appears in a public place in front of a crowd of people.


The hero can carry out daily care tasks for children, such as taking them from school, feeding them, or playing with them. But this is an ability for the hero to pay for, not one of his strengths. The hero finds it difficult to teach his children time discipline or discipline them unless one of the values is violated.


Finally, the hero is a caring and creative father, who creates an enjoyable environment for his children to grow up in. Also, the hero with his developed value system can pass it on to his children in the form of lessons and experiences from which the children learn a lot.


The hero as a friend:

The hero is an emotional and social person who is in tune with people's feelings and points of view. He is enthusiastic and gets a lot of self-satisfaction from people's support and encouragement. The hero is seen by his friends as passionate, confident, supportive, and giving.


In the workplace or general social relations, the hero often gets along with all people despite their varying personality types, led by his love and passion for people and their way of thinking. A hero loves to see the best in people and to help people bring out the best in them. Although the hero conforms to all types, the hero who tends to be highly emotional may have a problem with people who tend to be highly rational, because they cannot understand the hero's enthusiasm. The hero will understand that the rationalists do not understand him, and until these situations are repeated, then the hero will close himself off from the rationalists.


The hero may also feel threatened by strict people. Because the hero takes any criticism personally, the hero feels threatened or his feelings are hurt if one of the strict people expresses a negative or criticizes the hero, because the hero understands that criticizing the strict person expresses disappointment or disliking the hero.


For close friendships, the hero tends to people who are intuitive or sensual, and also extroverts who see life with an optimism similar to the hero. Like most intuitive and sensual people, the hero tends to have close and strong personal relationships. The hero often has many friends whom he has met along the way, but he has very few close friends who have the same ideas and trends as him. The hero may also enjoy the friendship of intuitive thinkers.


Strengths in social life:

  • He has good communication skills.
  • He cares a lot about people's ideas and motives.
  • Motivating, inspiring, and can bring out the best in people.
  • Emotional and warm feelings.
  • He has a sense of humor and is exciting, optimistic, and energetic.
  • In discussions, the discussion should end with the satisfaction of both parties.
  • He likes to fulfill the desires of others.
  • He is usually loyal and faithful.


Weakness in social life:

  • He tends to be pushy.
  • His enthusiasm may lead him to be unrealistic.
  • He ignores handling simple chores, paying bills, cleaning the house, organizing the office, etc
  • He clings to bad relationships even after he discovers them.
  • He hates disagreements very much.
  • He hates criticism very much.
  • He ignores his own needs.
  • He gets bored quickly.
  • He finds it difficult to reprimand or punish others.


Characteristics of the hero at work:

  • He tends to work on projects, rather than working on routine work.
  • Intelligent and able to work.
  • Gentle, kind, eager to understand people, and can deal with people.
  • He has a strong intuition and perception of people.
  • Able to descend or ascend to people's level of thinking.
  • Servant, he may put people's needs before his own.
  • His outlook is futuristic.
  • He hates routine chores.
  • He needs to hear the approval and praise of others.
  • Helpful and friendly.
  • Creative and active.
  • Developed written and verbal ability.
  • A natural leader, but he hates controlling others.
  • He hates being controlled.
  • Can work logically and rationally. By understanding the use of intuition to set a goal and discover how to act afterward.
  • Usually able to understand complex and difficult theories and concepts.


Works that suit the hero:

  • Consultant - Consultant.
  • psychologist.
  • Investor.
  • actor.
  • Teacher.
  • Political - Diplomatic.
  • journalist.
  • TV reporter.
  • Programmer, systems analyst, or computer specialist.
  • world.
  • Engineer.


Famous heroes:

  • Mark Twain (American writer).
  • Salman Rushdie (Indian writer).
  • Julian Assange (owner of WikiLeaks).
  • Ralph Nader (American politician).
  • Walt Disney (founder of Disney).
  • Che Guevara (Argentine revolutionary).
  • Fidel Castro (President of Cuba).
  • Muammar Gaddafi (President of Libya).
  • Hugo Chavez (President of Venezuela).
  • Jerry Seinfeld (comedian).
  • Micho Kaku (physicist).


Enhancing your hero's strengths:

Your personality is superior to other personalities in several aspects. Knowing these points, focusing on them, and developing them, will help you stand out and excel over your peers. Champions will notice these qualities in themselves, which they must focus on and nurture:

  • You have a superior ability to read people and situations. You can quickly and accurately read people's intentions and what they mean by their words or actions.
  • You accept people as individuals, and you have a high sense of equality and that everyone has the right to say and do what they want for themselves.
  • You are usually clever and intelligent, and you may have a high ability to link things and things together. This applies to your view of the world in general, or in your private life, where you can classify and arrange things faster than others.
  • Your desire to understand the world makes you attuned to and aware of what is socially acceptable and what is not. This makes you loved and popular with others.
  • You have high creativity abilities. You can use this creativity artistically, or to generate new ideas and ways of thinking.


A hero who develops the Introverted Sensing side of his personality will receive the following:

  • He will be able to follow up on projects from their beginnings.
  • He will become less naive, as he will be able to distinguish between what is good and what is bad more deeply, and therefore he will not accept any order without asking.
  • He may have a high artistic sense.
  • He will become more able to focus on tasks. His internal thinking will enhance his ability to analyze ideas and things within his mind and without the need for others, and thus he will become more able to work on several levels.
  • He will have the ability to control his desire to meet new people or have new experiences, by transforming this desire to achieve a greater and more comprehensive understanding of the current situation and people.
  • He will find greater and loftier meaning and goals for his life.


Expected problems for the hero:

Most of the problems that a hero is expected to have stemmed from his social intuition overriding the rest of his personality characteristics and some of these characteristics may appear in him:

  • He may become the easiest target for deceivers and profiteers.
  • He may put himself in dangerous and difficult situations, as he is always motivated to expand his understanding of things without having the desire to pass judgment on anything.
  • He may feel very angry at people who criticize him or try to impose restrictions on him, but without expressing this anger. Because anger remains boiling in his chest, it may turn into destructive energy that explodes at any moment.
  • He may blame his problems on the world around him, using reason and logic to defend himself.
  • He may tend to create strong negative judgments that are difficult to remove against the people who oppressed him.
  • He may have tendencies to carry out experiments to savor reckless feelings and experiences.
  • He may start working on projects without being able to finish them.
  • He may not be able to commit to work for a long time.

To overcome these points, you must focus on examining your views. This means that you should think deeply about your feelings about people, places, and ideas rather than leaving things in limbo. You will also have to convince yourself that your ability to classify and divide things does not diminish your ability to understand and comprehend the world, but on the contrary, it develops and deepens your outlook.

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