Intuitive Logical Extrovert

The Intuitive Logical Extrovert, ILE, ENTp, the Inventor, the Seeker, Don Quixote, or types. The Intuitive Logical Extrovert is an irrational, extroverted, static type whose leading functions are extroverted intuition and introverted logic.

Model A

Ego block

1. Extroverted intuition

The ILE is typically a "big picture" kind of person, and tends to speak in generalizations about both people and things, omitting any details he deems mundane or uninteresting. He is acutely aware of what interests and what bores him. This leads him to always search for novelty and surprising things. The ILE may put all of his effort into a project or hobby and then suddenly abandon it without looking back if he becomes disenchanted with it.

2. Introverted logic

ILEs are obsessed with how things work, and how they will work together. Understanding how something works is merely the baseline for the ILE. When the ILE finds something new or interesting he thinks about how it could be used in conjunction with other objects he has come into contact with in the past.

The ILE will freely voice comments on whether a rule (especially one imposed on him by society) makes sense to him. If it does not, he will break the rule or find a creative way of mocking it to express his dissent, rather than working within the system itself to change the rule. Unlike a Ti-leading type, he will often not replace the rule with one of his own.

Super-Ego block

3. Extroverted sensing

The ILE finds it difficult to get himself to do uninteresting things simply out of responsibility. If he has to, he will acutely feel his own lack of discipline. Thus the ILE is more comfortable when he has a flexible schedule and gets to pursue whatever seems most interesting to him at the moment.

The ILE occasionally puts on a macho facade, but it usually seems forced and consists more in talk than action.

The ILE is typically only able to sustain short bursts of strenuous activity.

4. Introverted ethics

Hide their personal sentiments whenever possible to avoid public examination of their feelings.

Super-Id block

5. Introverted sensing

Need assistance balancing their inner life and deriving enjoyment from all the things in life around them, and not just their mental activities.

6. Extroverted ethics

Enjoy lively, animated and fun interaction with people, but tend to be unemotional when left on their own.

Id block

7. Introverted intuition

Prefer to think about real-world possibilities and what can be done to materialize them rather than to fantasize about what might or might not be.

8. Extroverted logic

Can demonstrate a businesslike approach for brief periods of time, but then switch to their usual imagination-driven impulsiveness.