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Idealist-Champion (ENFP)

In a world filled with unique individuals, when it comes to personality there are only four different temperaments and 16 types of people. Your temperament is the Idealist (NF).

Idealists are rare, making up no more than 10 to 15 percent of the population. Yet their ability to inspire people with their enthusiasm and idealism has given them influence far beyond their numbers.

Your particular personality type, the Champion (ENFP), is even scarcer. Individuals of your type make up only two to three percent of the total population.

About Your Idealist Temperament

Idealists are spiritual, intuitive people who can enjoy spending a great deal of time and energy working toward a better understanding of who they are. The ultimate hope of this group is to attain true wisdom.

For the most part, Idealists are enthusiastic individuals who can find joy in meaningful relationships as well as the world around them. People of this temperament can pride themselves on being loving, kindhearted, and authentic. Other fine traits include being more giving and trusting than many around them.

An often-passionate temperament that yearns for romance, Idealists can make intense mates, nurturing parents, and inspirational leaders.

Being a Champion (ENFP)

Champions often possess both a wide range of emotions and a great passion for novelty. As a result, you likely consider intense emotional experiences as being vital to a full life.

Also, because Champions tend to be the most outgoing of the Idealists, you probably can't wait to tell others about the extraordinary - and even ordinary -- things that you do. In fact, others may know you as a tireless talker. However you're not simply a gossip running off at the mouth or even just a storyteller.

On the contrary, you may tend to speak or write in the hope of either revealing some truth about human experience or motivating others with your convictions. You can also have a strong drive to speak out on issues and events. When you couple these things with your usual enthusiasm and natural talent for language, Champions like you can be the most vivacious and inspiring of all the types.

As a Champion, you can be fiercely individualistic as you strive to reach a level of personal authenticity. This intention always to be yourself can be quite attractive to others. Another unique and special quality is your intuitive power. Being able to read what is going on inside of others and react accordingly can give special significance to your words and actions.

Far more than the other Idealists, you tend to be a keen and probing observer of the people around you. You can also be capable of intense concentration on another individual. This sensitivity and alertness makes sure that you're almost always there when needed, especially in emergencies.

Additionally, because you've constantly scanning your social environment, no intriguing character or silent motive is likely to escape your attention.

Because you can be so good with people, you probably retain a wide range of personal relationships. At times when you show your trademark warmth and energy, you're a very likeable, easygoing person. This is true in professional situations as well as personal ones. Not only do you usually make a good first impression, but you can possess a brand of spontaneity and exuberance that draws people in.

As a result, a wide variety of people may vie for your company. Use your positivity and confidence in the goodness of life as much as you can. Such a nature makes good things happen.

Work and Career

You live in anticipation of an exciting future, one you may see even more vividly than your present. As a result, in your ideal job you would likely be asked to stretch your imagination on a continual basis.

You would also be comfortable taking on a leadership role, so long as it didn't place you in an arbitrary hierarchy. You typically feel rewarded by being asked to share your insights with people who encourage your creativity.

On the flip side, it can feel insulting to you to have your innovations or ideas questioned. More so than for many people, your ideas are alive; they're your "babies." Because of this fact, you can sometimes be offended by the notion that you must justify them.

Like other Idealists, you are wired to pursue personal growth, authenticity, and integrity. You yearn to develop yourself fully as an individual and to facilitate that growth in others. You tend to thrive when you can turn your attention to the personal concerns of your coworkers, clients, and customers - as well as to your own personal growth.

Love and Relationships

Seeing the world anew through another person's eyes and sharing that world with them, the magic of sex, the miracle of raising a family - all of these things can be of paramount importance to you. You can be an incurably passionate and compassionate person.

However, these qualities may not express themselves in traditional ways. In private life, you may never give the kinds of gifts that other types favour -- roses, expensive jewelry, or technical or utilitarian gadgets. Instead, you tend to give gifts that tell stories or symbolize your feelings about your relationship.

Interestingly, when it comes to finding a mate, at times you're apt to be drawn to the very qualities in others that you feel you lack yourself. As a result, types who are more grounded can be very attractive to you.

Chances are, you admire the way this kind of person is able to make their way through life on a realistic and directed path. You probably also appreciate their level of focus. During the early stages of your relationship, these differences between you and your mate are likely to be especially endearing and fun.

What is temperament?

There are two sides to personality: One is temperament and the other is character. Temperament is a set of inclinations we are born with, while character is a set of habits we acquire as we grow and mature. Character is disposition, developed over a lifetime; temperament is predisposition, hardwired in from birth.

Thus, those of the Artisan temperament are predisposed to impulsive action, those of the Guardian temperament to responsible service, those of the Idealist temperament to personal development, and those of the Rational temperament to objective analysis. Each type of person, unless blocked or deflected by an unfavorable environment, will develop the habits of character appropriate to his or her temperament.

Put another way, our brain is a sort of computer that has temperament for its hardware and character for its software. Our hardware is the physical base of our personality, placing on each of us an unmistakable temperament signature, some facets of which can be observed from a very early age.

Our software on the other hand, is made up of our individual experience and social environment -- the forces around us that, with time and occasion, give shape to our individual character.

Thus temperament is the inborn form of human nature and character is the emergent form that develops through the interaction of temperament and environment. Personality, your unique personal style, is a combination of the two.

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