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In this episode Joel and Antonia dive deep into the needs and desires of the INFP personality type.
In this podcast on INFP Personality Type you’ll find:
- Why are INFPs misunderstood?
- The cognitive function is a mental process that helps you learn information or make decisions.
- The 4 letter code tells you how your brain is wired. It’s like an entrance on how you learn processes.
- Authenticity – Is a way that you (as an INFP) make your decisions which is more inclined what resonates with you the most as a person.
- INFPs understand emotions on a whole different level.
- Questions to ethics become very intriguing to INFPs. For example: “what determines an ethical or moral action?”
- Authenticity is very in touch with the subjective human experience.
- Authenticity is where we humans find conscience. Because that’s when we ask, “how do we honor people’s individuality?”
- Oftentimes, INFPs become masters of human experience in general.
- The ability to determine that something resonates is a maturity of the Authenticity process. As it matures, it understands that not everything they experience is the same as everyone.
- Do INFPs truly want to be understood?
- Nobody could be 100% understand them apart from themselves.
- INFPs feel being marginalized and dismissed way more than being misunderstood.
- INFPs seek validation.
- We want to acknowledge that they have a specific type of pain based from their personality type.
- Authenticity type should be balanced with Exploration. Exploration (the co-pilot function) is about advanced pattern recognition in the outside world – thinking behind the curtain.
- If you want more description or definition, check out our episode “Introverted Intuition VS Extraverted Intuition”.
- Your superpowers are developed when you learn to master your co-pilot.
- Art is one of the places where INFPs thrive.
- Art is a communication of feeling and INFPs simply flourish in this context. They create art that’s impactful.
- For INFPs, they tend to recall how they felt/reacted in the past.
- They have the ability to mirror emotions. They don’t need to mirror emotions in real time. For example, the can look at an art piece and mirror the emotion to themselves.
- Authenticity people tend to recall how they feel/how they imagined they would feel and then instantly replicating the emotion inside them.
- The emotional language can be transferred in long extensive periods of time.
- In order to be authentic, you need to have a mature and vast understanding of how the world works.
- Intent: The Darker aspect of Authenticity. INFPs tend to try to give a reason that’s combated with logic.
- INFPs tend to defend their intent, because they see a wide array of positive and negative intent. They understand how people can easily go and slip into bad intent.
- Healthy INFPs view everything has positive intent.
- Being able to understand that darkness is universal and part of the human experience will help you accept yourself.
- How to go about making a living as an INFP?
- Getting something done can sometimes be very challenging for INFPs.
- INFPs have the desire to make an impact and be an inspirational leader. Oftentimes, they will disregard the passion they have. Passion is extremely important.
- Authenticity people can have the tendency to marginalize people. Make sure you do what you’re passionate with. Check in with yourself what you really want.
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I’m pretty sure I’m an ISFP after learning about the cognitive functions, reflecting on my past decisions and identifying the types of choices I make as I make them. Despite this, usually when I take a personality test (including this one), I get the result of INFP.
I’m aware of the intuitive bias in a lot of tests, but sometimes I still have doubts that all the tests are wrong about me being INFP.
I recently read Gifts Differing by Isabel Briggs Myers and found that there were quite a few times that I related with the general descriptions of N types more than with the S type equivalent. That said, I relate much more with descriptions of Se and Ni than Ne and Si, so I wonder if it’s possible that I’ve developed my Ni beyond that of my Se? But that would typically indicate that one is an unhealthy ISFP, and I’m pretty sure I’m not in a Fi-Ni loop…
In one of your podcasts, you mentioned it’s easy to tell a healthy Authenticity user by how easily offended they are. I like to think (and my friends agree) that I am not offended easily, or at least that I am good at not showing it when I am.
Thank you so much for this podcast !
After 45 years I finally feel validated in all I have been going through, it’s an amazing feeling !
I absolutely agree with at least 90% of what you said. The rest I need to let marinate for a while. I am an INFP and there’s a lot to be said about our inner struggles with our dark sides. One of the many things I’ve discovered about myself is I am fantastic at justifying anything in the right context. This very often seems selfish to some people around me, and there are moments when it is, but I have become very acquainted with my dark side. If I am letting selfishness/darkness come into the drivers seat, I am very aware of it. There are times when I know the right choice but I choose the opposite because it’s easier, or more fun. But when I’m living self-disciplined I am unable to allow myself to go down a path which would compromise my good intent (even though sometimes my good intent is misinterpreted as contentiousness). But the biggest thing I’ve learned is that we INFPs are most susceptible to our dark side when we find ourselves in conflict while immersed in something we love or are passionate about. For example, it’s sometimes very difficult to stop an activity I really enjoy when something negative (that goes against my core values) crosses into my field of view and my mind can go off on a rabbit trail exploring that very negative thing instead, poisoning my state of mind. It’s important to be able to lose yourself in something positive as an INFP but I think it’s more important to remember what it is you want to be lost in and when something else side tracks you to reel yourself back in and remember what your intention was because we can so easily go from good intention to bad intention.
hello, I agree with almost everything in this article. But, not with all of it. For example, this kind of statement is clearly a subjective one: “Healthy INFPs view everything has positive intent”. First of all, not everything has a positive intent, and that is NOT necessarily a sign a «maturity nor development». No single individual can decide what’s mature or not for all of us, for evil IS NOT a relative concept. Evil (or the human shadow or whatever you want to call it) is not a matter of debate, because it always has a consistent negative consequence as a result of using it. It is no measure of maturity to be condescendent with darkness. Darkness should not be there in the soul. That fact that darkness exist does not mean it should be agreed with. And yes, I do want to be understood (not to be worship, but to feel less alone), but not told what to do or what to think. I have no need of that. My authenticity is tempered with my compassion and my empathy. And in regard to logic: rational minds are the most likely types to kill love, or noble values, or beautiful noble sentiments by rationalize them. Love nor compassion, nor empathy has the real capacity to rationalize evilness. Only logic and rational thinking have that capacity. Love is highly superior to logic. I can turn logic into pieces… I’m an artist and I can see the truth in everything, everywhere, all the time. Because I am literally made of that.
Just listened to this podcast (first one I’ve picked up and found the dialogue between you really insightful.
Previously tested as intj, Some times intp. Never felt right. Been looking back and revisiting as we’re going to be looking at mbti types as a leadership group. Looking at cognitive functions and fi/ne feels right. Ha ha isn’t that the infp way. Listening to the podcast I understood Antonia intellectually but found Joel’s explanations made more sense, they resonated, made me feel comfortable with the concepts.