The Extroverted Side of Every Myers-Briggs® Personality Type

Carl Jung once said, “There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.” As the founder of psychological type, the fact that he said this is very significant. And it’s true, as well. Everyone has an introverted side, and everyone has an extroverted side. Today we’re going to explore the extroverted side of each type, and how you can recognize it in daily life.

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Each personality type in the Myers-Briggs system has introverted and extroverted functions. If you’ve ever felt like an “ambivert” this is why! Nobody was meant to focus only on the inner world – we all need input from the world around us.

Nobody was meant to only focus on the external world – we all need input from the thoughts and reflections inside us!

In this article, we’re going to explore the extroverted functions, but we’ve also explored the introverted side of each Myers-Briggs personality type. You can see an example of our introverted and extroverted sides in the graphic below for the INFP personality type:

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The Extroverted Side of Each Myers-Briggs® Personality Type

The ENFP – Extraverted Intuition and Extraverted Thinking

You are an explorer of ideas, possibilities, and connections. Your extraverted intuition enables you to see transformations and potential in the world around you. You enjoy bringing up ideas and potential with other people. Swapping ideas with other people, brainstorming, and working with others on creative projects all bring out your extroverted, explorer side.

You also have a thinking side to your personality, but it’s not the “leading star” in your life. As your tertiary function, Extraverted Thinking shows up intermittently and with wavering strength. When you buckle down and organize a project you’ve been putting off for too long, that’s when Extraverted Thinking takes the wheel. It’s the goal-focused, decisive, make-things-happen side of your personality that isn’t afraid to call the shots or be blunt for the sake of efficiency. There are a lot of times when you stifle this side of your personality, choosing to lean on your intuitive and feeling sides instead. But the older and more mature you get the more powerful and influential this function becomes.

The INFP – Extraverted Intuition and Extraverted Thinking

Your extroverted side doesn’t come charging into the room waving a flag — it’s more of a quiet hum beneath the surface. (You’re probably thinking, “Well, duh.”) Still, it’s there. With Extraverted Intuition as your auxiliary function, you have a curious, seeker quality that balances out your deep inner world. You like exploring ideas and possibilities with people who get you — the ones you can sit with over coffee and spiral into conversations about life, meaning, or the weird paradoxes of the universe. You’re great at connecting dots, brainstorming, and spotting alternatives that others overlook. When a topic sparks your imagination, you can surprise people with how animated and talkative you become. But afterward, you’ll probably need to retreat into silence, because even the best conversations can feel like they drained your mental battery.

Then there’s Extraverted Thinking — your inferior function. It’s the part of you that wants things to make sense, to have order, systems, and plans that actually work. But this part doesn’t feel as natural or confident. You might notice it flaring up when life feels chaotic or when people around you are being illogical. Suddenly, the inefficiency of everything grates on your nerves. You start mentally rewriting everyone’s to-do lists, organizing your desk at midnight, or snapping at the nearest person who can’t find the stapler. In stressful moments, you might turn into a reluctant drill sergeant — determined to whip things into shape, even though you’d much rather be off daydreaming about something meaningful instead.

The ENTP – Extraverted Intuition and Extraverted Feeling

Like the ENFP, you also are an explorer of ideas and possibilities. You enjoy brainstorming with others and inspiring them with possibilities and angles they’ve never seen before. Sometimes this can take on the form of a debate – playing devil’s advocate by showing an alternate side to the coin that another person has never considered before. You enjoy generating original ideas and opportunities for your future, and you love getting others on board with your ideas. You exude restless intellectual energy to the world around you and inspire people to pursue ventures they would never have considered otherwise.

You also have a feeling side to your personality, but it’s not in the “driver’s seat” of your personality. As your tertiary function, Extraverted Feeling gives you a unique ability to “read” people and sense the overall vibe of the room you’re in. You can sense emotional tension, intensity, or lack thereof and you’re pretty gifted at rubbing shoulders with people and creating a particular mood. You like being in a positive emotional atmosphere and getting positive feedback from other people.  At the same time, you might enjoy debating people or saying certain things just to create some excitement or intensity. If things get too tense or awkward, you usually know just the right joke to crack to release some of the rigidity and tension.

The INTP – Extraverted Intuition and Extraverted Feeling

You have the same extraverted functions as the ENTP, but they’re going to be more muted because of your introverted nature. With Extraverted Intuition in the auxiliary position, you consider yourself an explorer of ideas and possibilities. You enjoy talking about and debating intellectual concepts and theories with people. You become outspoken and enthusiastic when you get a chance to play devil’s advocate to a position you feel hasn’t been thoroughly researched or considered. You can easily generate a dozen alternatives or possibilities in situations where others might feel stuck or paralyzed.

Extraverted Feeling is your inferior function, so this side of your personality tends to be more unconscious and vulnerable than your intuitive or thinking sides. It’s the side of you that wants approval, affirmation, and positive emotional interactions. It’s the side of you that knows what’s socially appropriate and gets shy when you make a social faux pas. Sometimes you choose to listen to this side of yourself and sometimes you choose to ignore it. But it’s there in the background wanting to be heard.

When you’re severely stressed, the feeling side of your personality can take over and you may find yourself being uncharacteristically emotional, hypersensitive, and in need of positive feedback from others. You might reach out to friends more, unexpectedly vent all your feelings to someone, or even write your feelings in a poetic form. You feel a compulsion to get your feelings out into the world in some way – either verbally or in writing or in an art form.

The ENFJ – Extraverted Feeling and Extraverted Sensation

As someone with dominant Extraverted Feeling, you pick up on other people’s emotions like it’s Wi-Fi. You can walk into a room and instantly sense who’s tense, who’s sad, and who just needs someone to notice them. You like creating warmth: finding shared values, shared laughs, that moment when someone exhales and thinks, “Okay, this person actually gets me.”

You’re at your best when you can be open with people — sharing what’s in your heart and giving them a safe place to do the same. You don’t just want polite acquaintances; you want resonance. You want to feel the click. Life, to you, is about those deep exchanges that remind you why people are worth believing in.

Then there’s your Extraverted Sensing side. It’s not running the show, but it adds color to your life. It’s the part of you that says, “Hey, stop overthinking and just live a little.” It wants you to dive into the world — taste the food, feel the sunlight, get lost in the moment. Sometimes your feeling and intuitive sides hog all the attention, and this side takes a back seat. You plan, you anticipate, you process — but every now and then, Se pops up like, “Let’s go outside and breath in the fresh air.” When you let yourself listen, it’s freeing. You laugh louder, stress less, and remember that the present moment isn’t a distraction — it’s where life actually happens.

The INFJ – Extraverted Feeling and Extraverted Sensation

Your extroverted side shows up when you’re around people and want to form authentic connections with them. You want the people around you to feel comfortable and accepted. Because of this, you might avoid awkward silences, seek out outliers in the room who might look lonely or make self-deprecating jokes to put other people at ease, and encourage authenticity. Factors like shyness or social anxiety can make an impact on this. Yet because you have this Extraverted Feeling side, you want to share your feelings with someone, in fact, you tend to sort out your feelings by externalizing them (writing them down or speaking them).

Your inferior function is Extraverted Sensation (Se). Because it’s your inferior function, it is far less conscious than your intuitive or feeling sides.  You may try to repress this function or keep it down. But no matter how hard you try, there’s a little voice inside you that wants adventure, excitement, and novel experiences. You want to try new things, go to new places, or maybe just listen to music or dance or sing at the top of your lungs. You might let out this extraverted side in small spurts, but for the most part, you keep it buried until you’re extremely stressed. Then suddenly and uncharacteristically you might become impulsive, reckless, or fixated on intense experiences (like over-exercising, eating too much, or spending too much). You can find out more about this in Understanding INFJ Grip Stress.

The ENTJ – Extraverted Thinking and Extraverted Sensation

Your extroverted side shows up in an eagerness to accomplish tasks, organize the world, and get things done. You like working with people towards goals and objectives, making plans come together, and segmenting tasks in a streamlined, effective way. You can have a commanding presence if things are being run poorly – taking charge and fixing kinks in the process that are slowing things down. You enjoy solving problems with people, thinking out loud, and troubleshooting.

The Extraverted Sensation part of your personality isn’t the one in charge – it’s more like the rowdy teenager that wants to have a good time. For you, Extraverted Sensation helps you stay focused on the details and realities of the moment you’re in. It also gives you an impulsive, restless streak that wants adventure, novel experiences, and calculated risks. You’re not too afraid of trying new things, and part of that is thanks to your tertiary Extraverted Sensing side.

The INTJ – Extraverted Thinking and Extraverted Sensation

Your extroverted side doesn’t show up as a social butterfly — it shows up as a project manager. You like having goals, systems, and clear steps to make things happen. There’s something deeply satisfying about turning chaos into order; lining up tasks, assigning roles, and seeing things actually work. You might talk things out loud to organize your thoughts, or find yourself giving people advice because, honestly, you’ve already run the logic tree in your head and know the most efficient path forward. When something’s broken, you’ll speak up with a practical plan and probably end up leading the repair crew (even if no one asked you to).

Then there’s Extraverted Sensing — your wildcard function. It hangs out in the basement most of the time, but every now and then it bursts through the door yelling, “Let’s do something reckless!” Most of the time, you prefer order over chaos, planning over impulse. But when life piles on too much pressure, that suppressed Se energy can take the wheel — suddenly you’re blasting music at full volume, cleaning like your sanity depends on it, or stress-shopping at 11 p.m. It’s your mind’s way of saying, “I need to feel alive.”

The ESFP – Extraverted Sensation and Extraverted Thinking

You’re an Extraverted-Sensing dominant personality type. This means that you have an incredible eye for detail and an ability to react quickly to incoming stimuli and information. You see things for what they are, pride yourself on being a realist, and respond quickly in a crisis. You appreciate vivid colors, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures. You’re energized by living in the moment and immersing yourself in sensory intensity. Because you’re a dominant sensor, you learn practical, hands-on skills quickly and can resourcefully use your surroundings when needed.

Like the ENFP, you also have tertiary Extraverted Thinking. Because it’s tertiary it’s not given the same priority that Sensation and Feeling are. But it’s still a hidden savior in your life. When life gets out of control or you’ve procrastinated too long, your tertiary thinking side kicks into gear and helps you streamline your goals, analyze your problems logically, and organize the world around you efficiently. It’s the part of you that can debate your values logically and put your beliefs into action in the world around you in an effective way.

The ISFP – Extraverted Sensation and Extraverted Thinking

Your extroverted side doesn’t exactly announce itself with fireworks — it’s more of a quiet hum beneath the surface. Still, when your values line up with real-world action, that side of you comes alive. If you’re volunteering at a shelter, for example, you’re not just standing around feeling good about helping — you’re noticing who needs a blanket, who hasn’t eaten, and which system could run smoother. You’re alert, hands-on, and responsive to what’s happening around you. In daily life, this extroverted side keeps you grounded: aware of what’s relevant, reading the room, and staying connected to the needs right in front of you rather than getting lost entirely in your inner world.

Then there’s Extraverted Thinking — your resident backseat driver. It’s not your comfort zone, but it’s always muttering directions in the background: “You should really organize this.” “That plan doesn’t make sense.” Most of the time, you ignore it and keep doing things your own way. But under stress, it can hijack the wheel — suddenly you’re barking orders, color-coding everything, or staying up too late trying to make life “efficient.” It’s that moment when your calm, steady demeanor flips into, “Fine, I’ll do it myself.” It’s not your default mode, but it shows just how deeply you care about bringing order and stability back when everything starts to unravel.

The ESTP – Extraverted Sensation and Extraverted Feeling

Like the ESFP, you’re also an Extraverted Sensing dominant type. You want to touch, taste, and experience all that life has to offer. You enjoy sensory immersion and intensity and have an energetic zest for life. You’re also a realist – you know how to focus on what’s relevant now rather than fixating on what’s happened in the past or what could happen in the future. You’re detail-oriented, practical, and resourceful – easily picking up new hands-on skills.

You also have a feeling side, even though it might surprise you! Your tertiary feeling side helps you to read the room, sense how people are doing emotionally, or even crack the right joke at the right time to defuse tension. There’s also a part of you that craves affirmation or emotional intensity. You might amp up the atmosphere by pulling pranks, getting people involved in activity, or intensifying the atmosphere, and getting people excited.

The ISTP – Extraverted Sensation and Extraverted Feeling

You’re one of the most private people in the Myers-Briggs lineup — the kind of introvert who can vanish into thin air and somehow still fix everything while you’re gone. Your extroverted side doesn’t show up as small talk or loud enthusiasm; it shows up when there’s a problem that actually matters. When something breaks, when there’s chaos, when everyone else is panicking — that’s when you kick into gear. Your Extraverted Sensing steps up like, “Move. I’ve got this.” You’re quick, observant, tactical — the one who sees what’s happening in real time and acts before anyone else even realizes what needs doing. You’re not here for endless debate; you’re here to make things work.

But there’s another side of you — the feeling side — and it’s a lot quieter. You don’t lead with it, and you might not even trust it half the time. It’s the part of you that wants to connect, that cares more than you’d ever admit, and that sometimes wonders how you fit into other people’s emotional worlds. Under stress, this side can sneak up on you. Suddenly you’re worried about what people think, craving reassurance, maybe even doing something uncharacteristically attention-seeking — only to cringe about it later once you’ve calmed down. It’s not weakness; it’s just your humanity breaking through the armor for a bit. You don’t lose your edge when that happens — you just remind yourself that even the most independent person still wants to be seen and understood sometimes.

The ESFJ – Extraverted Feeling and Extraverted Intuition

Like your ENFJ cousins, you crave real emotional connection, the kind where people laugh, share stories, and feel safe enough to be honest. You’re tuned in to others’ moods before they even say a word. You notice when someone’s off, when something feels awkward, or when a person just needs someone to care. You love making people feel at ease, finding common ground, and turning ordinary moments into shared memories. For you, life’s richest moments are the ones spent around a table with people you love, swapping stories and laughter that make the room feel lighter.

Then there’s your Extraverted Intuition — the adventurous little voice in the background saying, “What if we tried something new?” It’s not your main operating system, but it’s the part of you that gets excited about fresh ideas, clever what-ifs, and creative twists. You might find yourself unexpectedly thrilled by a sci-fi movie, a new theory someone throws into a conversation, or a spontaneous brainstorming session that gets everyone laughing. But after a while, you’ll want to ground it all — to turn the talk into something practical, real, and emotionally meaningful. For you, imagination is fun… but connection is home.

The ISFJ – Extraverted Feeling and Extraverted Intuition

Your Extraverted Feeling side is what lights up when you’re around people. It’s the part of you that wants everyone to feel safe, seen, and cared for — the one quietly refilling coffee cups and noticing who hasn’t had a chance to talk yet. When this side takes the wheel, you might not seem all that introverted. You laugh, you listen, you find common ground, and people walk away thinking you’re the warmest person they’ve ever met. You’re the definition of an “extroverted introvert” — engaged and tuned in when you’re with people, but secretly counting down the minutes until you can go home, take off your shoes, and sit in silence with a cozy blanket and no social expectations.

Then there’s Extraverted Intuition — your least comfortable function. It lives in the basement of your mind, occasionally popping up to say, “Hey, what if everything suddenly changed?” and you’re like, “Please don’t.” You prefer what’s familiar, what works, what has already proven reliable. New and unpredictable situations can feel like someone’s yanked the rug out from under you. Still, that tiny Ne voice has its perks — it’s what nudges you to see things from a different angle, try a new recipe, or turn a handful of seashells into a surprisingly lovely centerpiece. But when you’re under serious stress, that same imagination can turn on you. Suddenly, your mind starts spinning worst-case scenarios like a late-night horror movie marathon. You feel restless, anxious, convinced you have to change everything to make things right again. When that happens, grounding yourself in the familiar — routines, loved ones, small comforts — helps bring you back to center.

The ESTJ – Extraverted Thinking and Extraverted Intuition

As an Extraverted Thinking type, you enjoy working with teams to accomplish goals and find solutions to problems. You tend to naturally take charge in situations where you see inefficiencies or incompetence. When you’re trying to work through a problem, you like to “think out loud” and get input from others you respect. You can be very gifted at breaking down big, confusing plans into bite-sized, sequential steps and relaying those to people so they know where to begin. This can make you an excellent teacher!

Your Extraverted Intuitive side is less prioritized by you than your thinking or sensing sides, but it’s still vital. This side of you can show up in your offbeat sense of humor, your ability to brainstorm or make creative alterations to projects you’re working on. When you’re relaxed and in a stress-free zone you can tap into this function for small spurts of time and really enjoy it. You might enjoy exploring conceptual ideas in conversation or watching fantasy movies that aren’t based in reality. Having more strength in this function allows you to see more alternatives, angles, and possibilities than you would have otherwise.

The ISTJ – Extraverted Thinking and Extraverted Intuition

Your Extraverted Thinking side is what kicks in when something needs to get done and everyone else is standing around looking confused. You’re the one who naturally starts organizing the chaos — dividing tasks, setting priorities, and making sure things actually happen. You can lay out a plan in clear, logical steps and communicate it in a way that gets people moving. You don’t just talk about efficiency; you are efficiency. If there’s a project without a leader, you’ll quietly step in and make sure it doesn’t fall apart — not because you crave control, but because watching disorganization unfold is physically painful.

Then there’s Extraverted Intuition — your inferior function, and the part of you that keeps life from turning into one long to-do list. It’s not your dominant voice, but it’s there in the background, whispering, “What if we tried something different?” or “What if there’s another angle?” This side gives you flashes of insight that surprise even you: those moments when you suddenly connect patterns, see the hidden risk nobody else noticed, or come up with a clever workaround to a problem. It’s what lets you adapt when plans change, even if you’d rather they didn’t.

Of course, when you’re stressed, that same Ne can go rogue. Instead of useful ideas, you get a flood of worst-case scenarios and “what if everything falls apart?” thoughts that make it hard to focus. It’s like your normally steady brain suddenly starts pitching disaster movies. But when it’s healthy, this function adds a spark of imagination and possibility to your grounded, methodical nature. It’s what helps you innovate — not by throwing away structure, but by improving it.

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