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- Profile: ESTP
- Revision: 1.2
- Date of Revision: 2 Jan 94
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- Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
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- by Joe Butt (jabutt@sacam.oren.ortn.edu)
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- ESTPs are spontaneous, active folks. Like the other SPs, ESTPs get great
- satisfaction from acting on their impulses. Activities involving great power,
- speed, thrill and risk are attractive to the ESTP. Chronic stifling of these
- impulses makes the ESTP feel "dead inside."
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- Gamesmanship is the calling card of the ESTP. Persons of this type have a
- natural drive to best the competition. Some of the most successful
- salespersons are ESTPs. P.T. Barnum ("Never give a sucker an even break")
- illustrates the unscrupulous contingent of this type.
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- Almost unconsciously the ESTP looks for nonverbal, nearly subliminal cues as
- to what makes her quarry "tick." Once she knows, she waits for just the right
- time to trump the unsuspecting victim's ace and glory in her conquest. Oddly
- enough, the ESTP seems to admire and respect anyone who can beat her at her
- own game.
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- "If I was any better, I couldn't stand it!" To an ESTP, admission of
- weakness feels like failure. He admires strength in himself and in others.
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- "Shock effect" is a favored technique of this type to get the attention of
- his audience. ESTPs love to be at center stage, demonstrating feats of
- wonder and daring.
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- Famous ESTPs:
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- Jacob (Esau's brother)
- Simon Peter (Christ's disciple)
- U.S. Presidents:
- Andrew Jackson
- Franklin Pierce
- James Buchanan
- "Teddy" Roosevelt
- Mae West
- Lucille Ball
- Roy Rogers
- John "The Duke" Wayne
- Chuck Yeager
- Joe Garagiola
- Jack Nicholson
- Ann Jillian
- Jimmy Conners
- Madonna
- Eddie Murphy
- Ellen Barger (_Switch_)
- Michael J. Fox
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- Fictional:
- Heathcliffe
- "The Commish"
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