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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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Oops, I think the part about the learning environment for INFPs was actually from an article I just read (not this podcast).
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
All of this was spot on— from the not being allowed to take your emotions to a 10 wihthout being percieved as a “bad person” to why I didn’t pick up much when I was actually in school and was deemed as not as smart as everybody else.
But the most important for me to hear is this ending, and I seem to need to hear it on repeat while I’m going at my goals because no one seems to understand that I can’t even work a societal job into my life and still accomplish what I want to or without being severely depressed. It seems 99% of the time I’m getting the advice of “Just get a part-time job.” “Just go back to school.” I tried those things for long enough to know that it’s a system that chews me up and spits me back out. INFP suitable day jobs are not easy to come by. My husband has always been super supportive and he’s been the only way I’ve been able to really go at this full-force (I’m writing poetry books), but oftentimes still get tripped up because the few times I decide to venture out into the external world, I receive a lot of scrutiny and “you’re abnormal” shade. It’s sometimes days of what feels like self-coddling before I feel alright with who I am again. This is probably why going on social outings is difficult for this personality? And I agree also with what someone else commented on far, far above— that it sucks to be perceived as incredibly shy, weak, unintelligent when we’re the opposite underneath but under a layer of distrust of being seen as what we actually are.
I’m subscribing on itunes and the only other podcast I’ve loved enough to subscribe to so far is Under the Skin with Russell Brand (do check it out, I bet you INFPs would love the alternative-to-society views on politics and world issues) so a million times, thank you.
I completely agree.
Loved everything you said. Spot on. Actually articulated in a way i couldnt have ever done so myself. However it only adds to my lament. As for the intj, i have nothing more to say without ruining my composure.
This was incredibly validating … thank you so much for this detailed review of our INFP experience.