ENTP
The Portrait of the Inventor (eNTp)
Copyrighted © 1996 Prometheus Nemesis Book Company.

Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is
the functional engineering or inventive role that reaches the highest
development in eNTps. It is so natural for these individuals to practice
devising gadgets and mechanisms, that they start doing it even as young
children. And they get such a kick out of it that they really never stop
exercising their inventive bent. Of course as this kind of activity is practiced
some structural engineering inevitably happens, so that the next kind of skill
to develop in the ENTP is that of designing. Now planning contingencies and
marshalling forces, though practiced in some degree in the course of engineering
activity, develop more slowly and are soon left behind by the burgeoning of
talent in engineering. However, any kind of strategic exercise tends to bring
added strength to both engineering and organizing skills.
As the eNTps' engineering capabilities increase so does
their desire to let others know about whatever has come of their engineering
efforts. So they tend to take up an informative role in their social exchanges.
On the other hand they have less and less desire, if they ever had any, to
direct the activities of others, doing so only when forced to by circumstances.
As engineers of function eNTps wish to exercise their
competence in the world of people and things, and thus they deal imaginatively
with social systems as well as physical and technological systems. They are very
alert to what is apt to occur next-under certain conditions, if certain criteria
are met-and they are always sensitive to possibilities. Found in two percent (at
most) of the population, Inventors are good at functional analysis, and have
both a tolerance for and enjoyment of complex problems. Outgoing and intensely
curious, eNTps are apt to express interest in finding out about everything they
come into contact with, and this can be a source of inspiration to others, who
find themselves admiring the eNTp's insatiable hunger for knowledge. eNTps are
also endlessly inventive, and are the most reluctant of all the types to do
things in a particular manner just because that is the way things have always
been done. They characteristically have an eye out for a better way, always on
the lookout for new projects, new activities, new procedures. eNTps are
confident in the value of their interests and display a charming capacity to
ignore the standard, the traditional, and the authoritative. As a result of this
innovative attitude, they often bring fresh, new approaches to their work and
their lives.
A full description of the Inventors and the Rationals is in
Please Understand Me or Please Understand Me II
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