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Was Steve Jobs an ENTJ? Exploring his MBTI personality type

If we were to judge by his career and profession (business magnate, industrial designer, investor, CEO and media proprietor) we could probably say ENTJ right off the bat.  But let's get deeper into it by studying his biography. Steve's adoptive father, Paul Jobs, loved mechanics and building things. He built a workbench in his garage for his son, to pass along that love. By the time he was 10, Steve was deeply involved with electronics and made friends with a couple of engineers who lived close to him. This doesn't tell us much about his type, except that it probably points to a thinker (T). His biography also mentions that he had difficulty making friends with children his age and his classmates saw him as a loner. This could point to an introvert but many ENTJs will tell you that growing up they usually clicked better with people older than them. This is true for ENTPs too, though. His peers just bored him. They weren't challenging enough.  His biography also mentio
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Depressed ENTJ - how do we cope with depression?

 Most ENTJ descriptions are written in such a way that you can't imagine a person like that ever having problems with depression. An assertive, logical, quick-minded leader having depression? No way. But clearly, it CAN happen to every human and ENTJs are no exception. Not every ENTJ is born into opportunity and wealth, not every ENTJ is born into health either. Having great aspirations while being born into poverty, bad health or disability for example, can be a huge burden on your psyche.  How does depression manifest in an ENTJ? Since maintaining an image of a strong person is important to them they may hide it well or even be in denial about it to themselves. Men especially are known for hiding such feelings and projecting an image of strength to the outside world. Their apartment may become a mess, they may develop a nasty drinking habit, but when they go outside they will dress nicely and pretend they have their sh*t together. Sometimes ENTJs themselves are not aware tha

The ENTJ female?

ENTJ women are logical, analytical, assertive, non-conformist, independent and sometimes brutally honest and if you think those traits are unusual for a woman, first of all you have prejudice, but also you're in for more surprises, because the ENTJ female is also statistically an unusual occurence. ENTJ women are the second most rare type, representing only 0.9% of all women, right after INTJ women who represent only 0.8% of the female population. ENTJ women, just like ENTJ men, highly value family and friends, so they are likely to be loyal. Their loyalty is not endless and uncoditional though and they have no problem cutting people out of their life if trust is repeatedly broken. How do I spot an ENTJ female? Well, apart from the description above, you might notice an ENTJ woman in male dominated professions like business or politics. A very large percentage of women in those two professions are either ENTJ or ESTJ. ENTJ women tend to dress elegantly but practically. In schoo

ENTP + ENTJ compatibility, relationships

It could be said that ENTJs and ENTPs live in different worlds. Although they may appear similar on the surface (witty, strong willed, independent), deep down they're quite different personalities, interested in different things. For starters, one obvious difference is that ENTPs have much less desire to lead people, as leading can become too big of a burden on their creativity and freedom. ENTPs are different from ENTJs because they want to be valued primarily for their uniqueness. Reasons for conflict between the two personalities The primary desire of a person with the ENTJ personality type is to be valued as someone who made useful contributions to the world by making it more efficient, resilient, honest, rich or just by getting big things done. Because extroverted thinking governs almost all their actions they may be accused of not being creative enough, or being too focused on the end results. Those accusations usually come from an ENTP whose life revolves around extrove

ISTP + ENTJ compatibility, relationships

Even though ENTJ and ISTP personalities tend to get along great, it is important to note before we start that there are many other factors besides personality that influence human relationships. Some of those factors may be: social status, sex, financial power, self-confidence, skill in a profession, popularity and any of the other real or imaginary metrics people rate themselves on. Age is also a frequently overlooked factor (just imagine an old ISTP mechanic annoyed by a teenage ENTJ knowitall, and then imagine a young ISTP admiring his ENTJ professor's programming skills). Needless to say it's a very different relationship. Yeah, but are they compatible? Ok, for the purpose of explaining a sort of general compatibility of ISTPs with ENTJs we'll have to ignore a couple of factors and get on with it. A couple of things that are in common for most ENTJs and ISTPs are: - An admiration for and a focus on skill (technical, physical, artistic too) - Seeing l

ESTJ + ENTJ compatibility, relationships, dating

Short summary: To communicate something to an ESTJ the best policy is action, not theories Traditional ESTJs who are above an ENTJ in an organization can cause a lot of frustration to the ENTJ. Again the best policy is to have something to show for in real life, hard work or success gets their respect As equal peers ENTJs and ESTJs usually get along fine if of similar interests “It works” is a language both these personality types share ENTJs are one of the first types to admire the ESTJs dependability, hard work and responsibility An ENTJ - ESTJ relationship depends a lot on social roles and hierarchy mainly because of the ESTJ’s mentality so we’ll concentrate on that in this article. One good way to differentiate an ENTJ from an ESTJ is to look at their attitude towards hierarchy, gender and social roles. The difference in approach is that ESTJs tend to be more respectful towards authority and people above them in hierarchy (bosses, parents, and older people)

ENFJ + ENTJ compatibility, relationships

ENTJ ENFJ relationship summarized for those who don’t like long stories: - easily connect on an intuitive level - both like to create structure and order - might see each other as stubborn after some time - need to work on listening to each other while making decisions, and not just listening, but also taking each other's opinions into account - the ENTJ might not be able to meet the ENFJ's idealized standards for love and affection, especially for spoken words of affection because ENTJs believe actions speak louder than words (most ENTJ males would rather spell “I love you” with jet exhaust trails than say it out loud) - the ENTJ has to try to be less critical and argumentative and the ENFJ has to try to be less threatened by conflict and criticism - if the ENFJ is immature, the ENTJ will see her as emotionally manipulative, clingy or even two-faced - if the ENTJ is immature the ENFJ will see her as selfish, arrogant and stubborn ENTJ ENFJ relationshi