“Nobody… calls me …chicken!”
Marty McFly, Back to the Future II

“The McFly Conviction” (aka “The McFury”) is ENFP’s passionate fervor about their own self-meaning, which can become dangerous when they need external validation in order to prove that they matter.  When they feel like their value as a person is in question, a sweet ENFP who struggles with an unchecked McFly Conviction will feel down on themselves and like it doesn’t matter how good their intentions are (their First Cognition Step), because others find them insufficient in their actions and decisions (their Fourth and weakest step), and so they feel like they’ll never be worthwhile.  But if the ENFP tries to counter this by attempting to *prove* their self-worth to others, they often, intentionally or not, end up trying to assert their self-worth *over* the worth of others, and make others feel unvalued the same way the ENFP has been.  If the ENFP stops caring about others’ self-worth entirely, their McFly Conviction taking over all their choices, ENFPs can become uncharacteristically mean and end up negating their entire Type Specialization by constantly undermining the people around them, even seeking others out specifically to undermine their worth.

ENFPs need to remember, there is *no* sidekick type.  But part of being a hero is not needing external validation to know that you are worthwhile.  Being a hero means standing up for things, not only when you stand alone, but when you look like an idiot to the people who don’t understand.  While sidekicks are busy looking over their shoulders, constantly checking for the approval of others, real heroes are busy making something of themselves.  While ENFPs are just as capable of that as any other type, they first must let go of *looking* worthwhile, in favor of *becoming* worthwhile.

Examples:
Michael Scott, The Office
Bowler Hat Guy, Meet the Robinsons
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
and so many more…

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