+Ne as dominant function

The dominant function sets the agenda for the individual, and for ENTPs that agenda is set by Ne, or extraverted iNtuition. Given an idea or event, ENTPs effortlessly see a seemingly infinite number of potential root causes, implications, and applications of that information. However, unlike INTPs, these possibilities are experienced in sequence, one after the other, in a cascading train of thought, rather than being experienced simultaneously.

Even when an answer seems obvious to others, ENTPs can’t help but experience a lingering doubt, wondering whether it’s not possible that this other thing is actually true. They won’t take anything for granted, and they won’t let others, either. They have a childlike playfulness and wonder about the world and always want to see what’s around the next corner.

Although they may seem to others to doubt and waver between different possibilities, they can also seem unusually stubborn and resistant to changing their mind once they’ve made it up. For them, changing their mind is all-or-nothing, and changing their mind about one thing has a domino effect on every other thought and belief in their life.

Because ENTPs have +Ne, they approach the world with a childlike wonder. They feel as though they will never run out of new things to explore. They feel like every new thing is fresh and exciting. They are focused on the accumulation of ideas or potential – specifically, they see the potential of an object, idea, or person to develop into something great as an existing value in itself. They identify a venture or idea, in a sense, as already pointed and moving in a positive direction, and view their role as merely accelerating that forward movement.