ENFP Personality: How to change the world (with energy and creativity!)

ENFPs! You are known for being highly energetic, creative, enthusiastic, gregarious, and popular. Some famous examples of folks with the ENFP Myers-Briggs personality types who have made an impact on the world include Anne Frank, Robin Williams, Andrew Yang, and Ellen DeGeneres. Are you an ENFP or think you might be? In this video, we will explore the ways that you might be able to change the world. Welcome back! My name is Amber Melanie Smith. I am a nonprofit founder and executive director and speaker on leadership and social impact. I also do videos every week here on YouTube about service and leadership and nonprofits and social impact. My goal is to help aspiring change makers with tips and strategies to help you change the world while doing what everyone needs to do, which is living a life of purpose and impact. I know and love several ENFPs in my life and I can definitely personally attest to their energy and their creativity and their ability to draw a crowd. If you're not quite sure what personality type in the Myers-Briggs list that you are, I've left a couple of links in the description below that you can check out. Take those quizzes and let us all know what is your Myers-Briggs personality type. Before we get into some of the super cool ways that ENFPs can make a difference in the world, let's just talk a little bit about some ENFP personality traits. ENFPs make about 7% of the population. The ENFP is a free spirit. They are energetic. They are curious. They're always looking for the meaning in things. They're very compassionate. They love to connect with people. ENFPs are really imaginative people. The weaknesses of ENFPs, however, include a tendency to get unfocused, to overthink things. ENFPs can get overly stressed out or emotional about things and they resent being asked or required to follow the rules. ENFPs like to be around people. They like to work flexibly and independently, and they love to combat authority. Okay, so if you are an ENFP looking for a way to make a difference in the world, what are some great options for you? Well, let's talk about that. You as an ENFP need to have a role in making a difference where you can connect with other people. You need to be able to work on a flexible schedule that you can dictate as you need, and you really like to be able to be creative in these roles to make a difference. As an ENFP, you might not have the patience to do a really long-term project, so a project where you can make some kind of positive change in the community over a short term, so something that has a finite start and end time where you can see your impact right away could be a really good fit for you. So what does this look like in terms of a career in change making? One great fit for you could be a writer or a journalist. These types of activities would allow you to use your creativity and use your storytelling, which you really love to do, and they also allow you to kind of work at your own pace, work on your own schedule, and explore a lot of different concepts as you write. So doing something where you can make a difference or tell the story for a cause could be a really good project for you in terms of ways that you might make a difference in the world. If you are working in the private sector, odds are you're probably gravitating towards some kind of small business or startup scenario where the environment is a bit more flexible, a bit more agile, and even more fast-paced and exciting. You might not find a more bureaucratic or structured large corporation something that fits your needs. So in these types of environments, in terms of how you might go about changing the world, a great project for you could be launching a marketing or fundraising campaign to help a cause that your business cares about. Or in terms of a startup or social enterprise, being part of designing a product or service that could really impact the lives of a lot of people could be a very exciting venture for you. If you're thinking a career in the non-profit or social enterprise world might be a good fit for you, then you might think of roles like event planner or volunteer recruiter or marketing or social media campaign manager or fundraising campaign manager. Being able to do these roles means you're going to get to work with people, which is really important to you. It means that you're going to see the impact that you're making in milestones as you go along, so you can finish one project and then go on to another project and make progress steadily as you go and see the impact directly as you proceed. Again, with your highly curious nature, it's really important that you take on perhaps shorter-term projects that will allow you to see your social impact more quickly, otherwise you might get discouraged or bored and that is not going to make you feel very good when you're trying to make a difference. If you're out there trying to volunteer to make a difference for causes that you care about as an ENFP, then there are a lot of awesome options out there for you. One thing you might want to consider is trying a bunch of different service projects. As a very curious and imaginative person who likes to try new things, the opportunity to learn about different causes, try different activities could be really appealing for you. Odds are you're also a very creative person, so using art or music or writing or theater or some other creative avenue to host some kind of event or project or campaign to promote or raise money for a cause that you care about could also be a really exciting project for you. As an ENFP, you would also be really good at coming up with interesting, quirky, guerrilla marketing campaigns for causes that you care about, something that can catch the eye of others in the community and make other people curious. This could be a really interesting project for you. I could see ENFPs traveling to serve in other countries in far-off lands, perhaps using public speaking or storytelling or even creating videos to tell the stories of causes that you care about as a project that you might undertake while traveling or even at home in your local community. You have a natural talent for telling stories and inspiring other people, so any of these activities would be really impactful for you as an ENFP. Like the ENFJ, as an activist, being some kind of protest or event campaign manager or something where you're able to recruit and rally a bunch of people together to raise their voices for a cause, that could be a really great fit for you as well. You love a good crowd and you love to draw energy from people, so being able to get a bunch of people really riled up and excited would be something you'd be really good at. Are you an ENFP or do you know one? I'd love to hear about your personality type and ways that you are making a difference in the community and ideas that you have for others. We love to learn from each other, so please share in the comments below. And don't forget, if you liked this video, give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe because I make weekly videos on social impact, social change, service, leadership, nonprofits, and more. And again, if you are on Facebook, come and check out my group, Change the World or Bust. We are having great conversations about how to make a difference in the community and the world in there, and we'd love to have you. Thanks so much for watching!