ESTP - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

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ESTP - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

Enthusiasm to hands-on, real-life experiences. Excited, logical, analytical. Energetic and adaptable.

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Famous ESTP: John F. Kennedy

For ESTPs the dominant quality in their lives is their enthusiastic attention to the outer world of hands-on and real-life exerpiences. ESTPs are excited by continuous involvement in new challenges. They tend to be logical and analytical in their approach to life, and have an acute sense of how objects, events, and people in the world work. ESTPs are typically energetic and adaptable realists, who prefer to experience and accept life rather than to judge or organize it.

Source: Looking at Type: The Fundamentals, Center for the Application of Psychological Type, 1997.

Some interesting facts about ESTP personality types

Among the highest in college retention. Source: MBTI Manual, 1998

In national sample "Leisure Activities," overrepresented in "Playing sports." Source: MBTI Manual, 1998

Academic subjects preferred: history, math, practical skills. Source: I.M. Myers & M.H. McCaulley in Manual: A guide to the development and use of the MBTI, 1985.

3 top desirable work characteristics favored in national sample: "Variety of tasks," "Independence & achievement," and "Clear structure." Source: MBTI Manual, 1998

In national sample, dissatisfied with "Promotions," "Opportunity to contribute to society," and "Amount of stress" in their work. Source: MBTI Manual, 1998

In national sample, among top 4 types valuing "Prestige." Source: MBTI Manual, 1998

Ranked 15th out of 16 types on using spiritual/philosophical coping resources and 16th out of 16 types on using cognitive coping resources. Source: J. Shelton, in MBTI Applications by A.L. Hammer, 1996.

Ranked highest in "positive affectivity." Source: MBTI Manual, 1998

In national sample, ranked 4th highest in satisfaction with "Marriage/intimate relationship." Source: MBTI Manual, 1998