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Personality Type and Learning: ESTP

Personality Type and Learning: ESTP

By Donna Dunning

Logical Responders (ESTP)

“I’ll get right to it.”

Our personality type preferences link to how and what we prefer to learn.

In my booklet, Introduction to Type and Learning, I describe how each of your four preferences (E/I, S/N, T/F and J/P) link to your learning style. You can read a summary about how type preferences influence learning on my Connecting Personality Type to Your Learning post.

In the booklet I also discuss how your whole type, the combination of your preferences, links to your learning style. I do this using the eight dominant function groupings.

I use the name Responders for people who prefer ESTP (and ESFP), since they both share an active, adaptive approach to living, working, and learning. In type language these types have a dominant function of Extraverted Sensing (Se). See the Responder page for more general information on this combination of preferences.

Responders tend to enjoy learning that is practical, hands-on, active, relevant, and relatively unstructured.

Each of the eight approaches to learning are discussed in detail as you can see in these Introduction to Type and Learning sample pages shared by CPP Inc. (the publisher) on their website.

In this post, I have taken a short excerpt from the booklet to highlight how ESTPs prefer to learn. The tips mainly describe how an ESTP can use their Thinking process to support their natural Responding approach. If you are learning something new and have ESTP preferences, use the tips to maximize your learning. If you are teaching, leading, or coaching others, consider adapting your style to accommodate these learners.

Learning Tips for ESTPs

  • Find opportunities to jump into, scrutinize, and solve problems
  • Set up contests, challenges, games, or competitions with other willing learners
  • Find competent instruction and access to credible resources
  • Use analysis and ask questions to make sense of what is being learned
  • Organize information logically
  • Ask “Why?” and “What if?” questions to understand
  • Try a new skill even though you think you might appear incompetent
  • Find the most expedient way to learn specific information
  • Seek frank and direct feedback
  • If notes are necessary, make them concise and in bullet list form

As well as personality type specific tips, there are essential learning strategies everyone can use to be a more effective learner. These are described in detail in my Introduction to Type and Learning booklet and are summarized in my post on the Top 10 Learning Strategies.

Being a life-long learner is a necessity in this complex, changing world. Understanding and adapting how you learn can be a powerful tool for your career and life success.

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You can also purchase Introduction to Type and Learning from CPP Inc. in PDF format.

I hope you enjoy the photographs for this Personality Type and Learning blog series. They were taken from helicopter and boat during a trip to the Discovery Islands off the west coast of Canada.

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