Talk about what lies ahead goes straight to the point. You look at the same thing, and your handling of time is reversed. One says "time does not wait", the other says "wait, and it all comes".
ENTJ and INTP compatibility in brief (love, work, friendship)
ENTJ × INTP is the Mirror relation, one of the sixteen. Look together, and something turns up.
LoveLive together and the housework falls to one side.WorkINTP researches, ENTJ executes. The side that dismissed the warning gets written about later.Friends & conversationTalk of what lies ahead goes endlessly deep. It always splits on when to move.
Written as INTP × ENTJ it is the same pair. In 16Personalities terms, the Commander and the Logician.
Both read ahead by reasoning. But ENTJ hurries and arrives late; INTP is slow and orderly. ENTJ learns by trial and error; INTP investigates thoroughly before moving. To ENTJ, INTP looks paralysed; to INTP, ENTJ looks reckless.
To ENTJ, INTP seems to "kill everything living". Dark forecasts and dark jokes cool the room. ENTJ dismisses INTP's warnings as paralysis, and ENTJ's recklessness drags INTP into action they did not want.
These two do not complement each other. People's feelings and care of the body: neither is good at them. It turns into blaming each other over who calls the parents.
To ENTJ, INTP looks paralysed; to INTP, ENTJ looks reckless.
An eye for an eye
Housework falls to ENTJ; INTP turns to advice and criticism. ENTJ takes it on, INTP criticises, ENTJ withdraws and complains. When both tire, they drop their duties and blame each other.
When truly needed, they change. Ordinarily, they do not.
How each sees the other
ENTJ → INTP
They can see the view six months ahead.
But they do not move.
And they drain the joy. Dark forecasts and dark jokes cool the room.
INTP → ENTJ
Quick to decide, and things actually move.
On the other hand, shallow. They run at the wrong moment and learn by hitting their head.
And they call your warnings paralysis.
What has been recorded
SCENE 01A room of books, plates and clothes
In a dormitory room cluttered with books, plates and clothes, the only free space is the big bed. The ILI reads there all day and picks the next book off the floor when done. The LIE said "sleeps all day and does nothing", hung the shelves himself and boasted "I did it alone", the record says.
SCENE 02Orders from the sofa
An ILI with a military past lying on the sofa giving orders: "get up, dress the child, go for a walk, no back talk", and the LIE moving. Housework falls to the LIE; the ILI supplies advice and criticism only, the observation says.
SCENE 03The months the mother was in hospital
When the LIE mother spent months in hospital and came out disabled, the ILI son handled the housework, several jobs and his studies all at once. When truly needed, they change, the record says.
A pair on record
Dean Acheson (LIE, inferred) × George Kennan (ILI)
Typing: Kennan established; Acheson inferred
Kennan, who proposed containment, split with Acheson at the implementation stage. Acheson pushed militarisation, dismissed Kennan's warnings and put Nitze in his place. Kennan left office and wrote for half a century that he had been misread.
What matches: LIE dismissing ILI's warnings as paralysis; the side that executes and the side that turns to advice and criticism.
Love, living together, work, family: scene by scene
ConversationTalk of what lies ahead goes endlessly deep. It always splits on when to move.
RomanceLive together and the housework falls to one side.
Living togetherThe one who hangs the shelves and the one who warns. Decide, or it becomes an eye for an eye.
WorkINTP researches, ENTJ executes. The side that dismissed the warning gets written about later.
FamilyAssign the calls to parents and the children's meals.
If you keep going
Ask
Faster to ask than for ENTJ to do it alone and boast.
Do not call warnings paralysis
If you dismiss one, at least leave a record.
Write down who does what
What is not written down, neither of you will do.
For these two
How to meet ── Over the same book, the same hobby
A relation where looking together finds something. Reading groups, study groups, gatherings of the same fandom. The person you could not stop talking to: that is the one.
Approach ── Keep the argument going
Objection over agreement. These two deepen from "no, that's wrong". Engaging seriously with the other's thinking is the best way to show affection.
A date ── Museums, bookshops, a long café
Somewhere with things to look at. Then a place where you can talk for hours. The conversation is the lead, so somewhere quiet.
Gifts ── for ENTJ, Feeling; for INTP, Action
For ENTJ: A letter, something handmade. Something without practical value, for the practical one. What ENTJ thinks they cannot receive. For INTP: Take them out. Book it and pick them up. The movement INTP does not start alone.
PROne thing for this relation
A relation where looking together finds something, so things to look at together.
One book for twoTwo who find different chapters of the same book interesting.
The observed mirror form. Write down the division and hand it over.
Shouldn't we be strong together?
Research plus execution is strong. The teams that dismissed the warning split later.
What is ENTJ and INTP compatibility in love?
Live together and the housework falls to one side. More under "Love, living together, work, family: scene by scene" and "If you keep going".
Do ENTJ and INTP work well together?
INTP researches, ENTJ executes. The side that dismissed the warning gets written about later. More under "Love, living together, work, family: scene by scene" and "If you keep going".
This pair is the mirror relation, one of the sixteen. How the relation itself arises, and how to tell it from the others, is on the relation page.
The two Model A's: what talks to what
ENTJ on the left, INTP on the right. Each shows where the eight elements sit; lines connect the same element. Where each line starts and ends decides what happens in this relation.
Lines connect the same element in the other person's structure. 1–2 (strong) 3 (role) 4 (vulnerable) 5–6 (wanted) 7–8 (capable, indifferent)
1 → 2TeENTJ's 1 (leading) Te (extraverted logic) sits in INTP's position 2 (creative). Both strong here. Same ground: fast understanding, and some rivalry.
2 → 1NiENTJ's 2 (creative) Ni (introverted intuition) sits in INTP's position 1 (leading). Both strong here. Same ground: fast understanding, and some rivalry.
3 → 4FeENTJ's 3 (role) Fe (extraverted ethics) sits in INTP's position 4 (vulnerable). Both weak. The same thing goes wrong for both.
4 → 3SiENTJ's 4 (vulnerable) Si (introverted sensing) sits in INTP's position 3 (role). Both weak. The same thing goes wrong for both.
5 → 6FiENTJ's 5 (suggestive) Fi (introverted ethics) sits in INTP's position 6 (mobilizing). Both want it, neither has it. Must come from outside.
6 → 5SeENTJ's 6 (mobilizing) Se (extraverted sensing) sits in INTP's position 5 (suggestive). Both want it, neither has it. Must come from outside.
7 → 8TiENTJ's 7 (ignoring) Ti (introverted logic) sits in INTP's position 8 (demonstrative). Both capable, both indifferent. Left alone.
8 → 7NeENTJ's 8 (demonstrative) Ne (extraverted intuition) sits in INTP's position 7 (ignoring). Both capable, both indifferent. Left alone.