Dana White ~ MBTI, Enneagram, and Socionics Personality Type

Dana White

President of UFC

function

ennea

variant

socio

psycho

ESTP 2

8w7 1

SEE 1

VFLE 1

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(25/07/16 11:24) Woll Smoth: EST

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(25/07/16 09:11) nicotineseries: ESTP

(25/07/07 09:16) Woll Smoth: ESTP

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(25/07/16 11:53) Woll Smoth: 863

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(22/03/06 21:03) Woll Smoth: SEE

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(25/07/16 11:52) Woll Smoth: VFLE

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nicotineseries IXFP 6w5, 649 EII-Fi

Lol I changing my mind, thank you Woll Smoth users.

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2025-07-16 09:14:36am (post #10136)

nicotineseries IXFP 6w5, 649 EII-Fi

Hm, good I think. Well, actually maybe someone have their different opinion and point of view to believe in. Or maybe I'm not changing my thought but yeah I respect people who speak up and for you research and typing in here and I too have different views in your opinion. But yeah you have the right to think what you want and keep up to telling this in their website.

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2025-07-12 07:38:57pm (post #10119)

Woll Smoth

Also, I'm a little confused by what you mean regarding someone's behavior? I know there are lots of reasons someone might be x or y way. My point was about making inferences and weighing things up in context. I don’t type by checking off behaviors per se but certain types are more prone to certain behaviors than other types due to how the functions in a certain order often manifest in certain recognizable ways. Of course "often" does not mean "always", and that is a very important distinction, but you still at the end of the say have to interpret or infer their best fit IDR type looking at their behavior to some extent even if the behavior is not the determinant in itself.

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2025-07-12 04:54:50pm (post #10118)

Woll Smoth

The "case-by-case basis" quote they used was evidence for Se (i.e. taking things as they come rather than via fixed formula), the whole video was only (or at least mostly) about Se vs Te and why Dana White fit the former (Se) rather than the latter (Te).

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2025-07-12 04:30:50pm (post #10117)

nicotineseries IXFP 6w5, 649 EII-Fi

I actually maybe believe with what has been said from you but, I think that IDRlabs noticed in their video about he's and him cognitive function and their noticed about him geting job done by case-by-case standarts are I think it is Extraverted Thinking.

I know that the socionics are valuable tools too but I still think that you're include some of someone behavior which means that I dont think it's crucial for the evident (my opinion). But now good luck with your research.

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2025-07-12 08:10:31am (post #10116)

Woll Smoth

For starters, I agree with IDRlabs that Dana White is an Se type, for similar reasons mentioned in their video. So very little needs to be said in that department.

Now, moving on, I disagree with them that Dana White is Fi-Te. Does the Fi argument stem from his passionate behavior? It's not a convincing one. (There's the argument that he's apparently loyal to his friends and family and makes character judgments of others but that's also very flimsy). I don't think he preferred Fi:

White: "I don't [like] talk[ing] about my feelings ... When you [see] talk about men's mental health and that men have to carry this burden ... [well] guess what? Somebody's got to get up. I have a family, right? I have children. I got to get up every day and go to work, and I have to, you know, do what I have to do. ... I don't give a shit about my feelings. ... Be a man I tell you, just be a man."

Does this sound like a person who cares or orients themselves to their inner feeling? I know that Fi is not 1 to 1 with the colloquial meaning of "feelings" BUT they do indeed overlap as Fi will indeed, more often than not, incorporate their inner sensitivities and the like into their evaluations. Dana White, on the other hand, seems to be rejecting his personal, inner sentiments in favor of a more impersonal standard.

He appears to be more Ti in which his decisions seem to be guided by a process of personal logical elucidation:

White: "I [continued the UFC during the pandemic because I] didn't get it, I couldn't wrap my head around the whole COVID thing. I was like, 'Wait a minute, if this thing is as bad as they're saying it is, we're all dead anyway. Are we going to hide from a fucking virus?' Come on, man. You could go into a restaurant with a mask on, sit down, take your fucking mask off, eat, and then put it back on? Just a lot of little fucking details like that don't make sense. ... We can't go to work but we can protest? We can all get together in a fucking protest but we can't go to work? I could poke fucking Swiss cheese holes in the whole fucking thing."

He attacks the logic of the people who enforce the COVID guidelines and what have you. With these things, it's not the stance he takes but the way he says them, focusing on (what he perceives to be) the logical fallacies and what not as opposed to personal values.

One might argue that his Te is more "pronounced" than most ESFPs, possibly "muting" his Fi to some extent (therefore conveniently chalking everything up to "overactive" Tertiary Te). But this ignores that ESFPs (even unhealthy ones) structurally prefer Fi over Te but even if we were to take the argument into consideration, I don't agree with the notion that he extroverts Thinking in the first place. Of the 2 Thinking Functions it is my contention that he seems to prefer Ti over Te:

White: “When you come in here on a Tuesday night, you have to make me say, ‘I have to have this guy or girl in the UFC.' You can be as talented as they come [but] this is your one shot, your one night. This sheet [of your stats] is all I know about you, I don’t read any of this before I walk in. When the fights happen, I see it. You show me tonight who you are. None of this [on the sheet] means [bleep] to me. This [sheet] means nothing to me. It’s great [that] you’re obviously here, you’ve got great records, you’ve done great things [but] show me tonight. On Tuesdays, it’s your night to show me what you are and what you’ve got. Make me say yes."

While many may say that the quote is mostly indicative of Se's preference for first-hand experience and swiftly grasping the immediate facts, another thing to consider is that he is neglecting statistical measurements altogether in favor of his inner idea in determining whether or not they have what it takes to be in the UFC. With Dana White, there is an inherent lack of reverence towards accepted models (someone who prefers Te is more inclined to at least take it into consideration). One might say that this quote could be a good illustration of Se with Ti at play, where (like in many STPs) the Ti principle is dependent on Se, reality itself (in this context, the actual performance of a fighter in the octagon). In other words, the Ti in STPs is often practical and connected to the manifest elements of reality rather than being academic.

On its own, Te types are more likely to trust external validity, but Ti types could reach that conclusion if it makes sense to them internally (and it does in a lot of cases). It's more about when push comes to shove, whether they rely on some kind of externally valid criteria or not. It's important not to jump to the conclusion that someone has Te just because one cites statistics, as many people do so. The difference lies in the orientation and selection of the premises. So if we were to take the possibility of Dana White being a (somewhat conscious) Te user into consideration, in an argument does Dana White multiply facts, piling facts upon facts (Te), or are those facts are only an addition to the core of his argument (Ti)?:

Interviewer: "Getting into the slap-fighting promotion. Um, not exactly how you probably envisioned working. ... Some good, some bad. A lot of you know, publicity, negative, your own issues as well. How is this playing forward into the next season? We saw promotions of it on there."
Dana White: "It's been incredible—the deal that I just cut for Slap is bigger than the UFC deal we cut with Spike TV after the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. I don't give a shit what the media says about it—they don't matter."
I: "So, money-wise, it's working out, is what you're saying basically?"
DW: "It's fucking unbelievable! Not only is it unbelievable money-wise, it's been unbelievable as far as social media goes. We're number one in all of sports—and when I say all the sports, if you take the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, F1, WWE, and ... add them all together, their numbers don't compare to Slap's."
I: "Um..."
DW: "Yeah."
I: "Seems a little doubtful."
DW: "Yeah, you can doubt it all you want."
I: "I mean I was covering for the finale of it and I saw the numbers on Rumble and there were people watching, but..."
DW: "There were people watching. It did 3.2 million viewers, and 1.7 million of them had never been to Rumble before."
I: "Well, I was one of those, for sure."
DW: "Thank you, I appreciate it."
I: "But it certainly... that number didn't show up on that counter that Rumble had today."
DW: "But that's how it works when you stream. When streaming, it's not really the actual number right there. Um, it's the same thing when you go live on Instagram. ... I mean, we were the biggest stream on a Saturday for Slap. The good thing is that most of you guys don't understand social media and how it works."

In this case, while Dana White does cite some “statistics” (please read this short article to better understand context: https://bloodyelbow.com/2023/05/08/dana-white-power-slap-social-media/), such as the number of viewers for the Slap finale, he does so in a way that is more consistent with Ti's propensity to coerce the facts to support their internal ideas than Te's tendency to admit more and more facts. As IDRlabs has said about Ti, "the Ti type can easily be perceived as a crank ... since the Ti type uses internal ideas that are derived from his own consciousness to evaluate external occurrences, he forever runs the risk of using the wrong idea to evaluate the data." Now, Te need not be slavish to external data but, all else being equal, they are more likely to give much more weight to it so that, as IDRlabs has said, "their concepts are neither as flimsy nor as easy for others to reject as in the case of the Ti type."

Furthermore, this quote's description of Ti from "Teaching Jung" (which is in IDRlabs' article "Ten (Edited) Quotes About Cognitive Functions") very much (and self-evidently) applies to Dana White regarding the interview: “Extraverted thinking is interested in [data] that ‘holds true for everyone’ and proceeds to organize the external world [according to publicly] agreed definitions, whereas introverted thinking reflects on whether a particular construction [of the data] accords with the conviction of inner truth, regardless of what the received opinion might be.”

I would like to note that I don't believe that Fi is the driving force behind this situation. It's true that individuals with Fi>Te types can often cling to their views in the face of dissenting facts (although I will add that EFPs are less inclined to do this than IFPs due to them not repressing Te), but at the core of this is a desire to hold on to their deeply held sentimental ideal (which I don't see this to be the case here). So based on the reasons I mentioned earlier, this appears to be mainly an expression of unhealthy Ti neglecting facts.

Overall, Dana White does not show a preference for aligning himself with accepted data.

Indications for a preference for Fe:

White: "The UFC ... has been a rocket ship of success since 2005, right. And I'm always telling them ‘I love you guys, this and that, we're a team, this and that’—the first time the shit hits the fan, I'm gonna start laying you people off in the scariest time in the history of the world? Uh-uh. This whole ship goes down, and we all go down together or not at all. … My employees are fucking scared. You know, [they're thinking] 'am I going to not get paid?' Some of them have kids, some of them are getting COVID—you know this type of shit’s happening. Mmm-mmm, not on my watch, brother. We're in this together. ... This is what I was telling my employees, right. [That] we're together [and that] we're going to get through this together."

In my view, he is displaying Fe in the quote; he is seeking a mutual adherence ("this whole ship goes down, and we all go down together or not at all"), situating himself and others as part of a common bond ("I'm always telling [my employees that] we're a team ... we're together, we're going to get through this together"). On a related note, IDRlabs notes that a well-developed ESTPs can utilize their Feeling function to establish a shared objective for an organization or group which I also find quite fitting here.

Additional Notes

This part focuses on a type's general tendencies rather than cognition, but it is still something I think should be considered. From your site’s ESTP description, I have found several links between your site’s ESTP description and how journalists and associates have described Dana White:

IDRlabs: "ESTPs are in many ways equipped with that extra savvy which allows them to do well in business as well as in life. ... Flexible and pragmatic, ESTPs typically see little need to do things 'by the book' - especially not if doing things 'outside of the book' will get greater results. ... ESTPs ... often have a strong charisma. They tend to have a way with people where they are extremely shrewd at connecting with them and convincing them of their plans. ... ESTPs are in many ways equipped with that extra savvy which allows them to do well in business as well as in life. ... [They have a] charming exterior."

Rolling Stone: "He’s taken mixed martial arts, a sport that was essentially moribund seven years ago ... and turned it into a moneymaking, crowd-frazzling sensation ... He accomplished this by using various business-savvy stratagems and dodges. ... How he did it really is by the force of his own multifaceted personality. At 38, he is ... charming, ambitious, [and] cunning.”

Gregg Doyel: "He's charming, persistent, persuasive and magnetic.”

Chuck Mindenhall: "He doesn’t always tell the truth, but somehow — through audacity and red-faced guile — White keeps pushing this sport into bigger and broader realms ... and upping his own ante."

Trump: "There's nobody like this guy, I'm telling you. ... He could do anything. He is so smart, so tough, so cunning."

Overall, these quotes paint the picture of someone who is cunning, persuasive, shrewd, and engages in gamesmanship, as opposed to someone who shoots straight from the heart. Generally sounds more ESTP than ESFP.

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2025-07-11 07:21:35pm (post #10115)

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