Download Episode Here – right click link and select “Save Link As…”
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.
To subscribe to the podcast, please use the links below:
Subscribe with iTunes
Non iTunes Link
Download The Android App
Subscribe on Soundcloud
Subscribe with Stitcher
If you like the podcast and want to help us out in return, please leave an honest rating and review on iTunes by clicking here. It will help the show and its ranking in iTunes immensely! We would be eternally grateful!
Want to learn more?
Discover Your Personal Genius
We want to hear from you. Leave your comments below…
Share:
Podcast - Episode 0054 - Why Lovers Fight About Sex, Money, and Family
Podcast - Episode 0056 - Integrate and Transcend
215 comments
Still not knowing if I am INFP or INFJ… I have a lot more in common with INFP but don’t have this emotional aikido they are talking about, and other thing that makes me think I am INFJ is the fact the help I generally give people is not inspirational is an insight like INFJ. Itrovetion ist he only letter I’m quite sure at, the others make me doubt myself. OK INF is close but the last letter seens like I have characteristics for both. Autenticity seens to drive my decisions but I’m not that good understanding of other people like I understand myself, I feel very different from other people.
I didn’t really resonate with this podcast, but I completely resonate with everything you wrote here.
Alignment makes a lot more sense to me than “feeling.”
Don’t know what Jennifer is talking about. I didn’t get judgemental from you at all. Thank you for taking the time to really consider INFP’s and the work you put into not just the podcast, but really delving into our type with compassion and the desire to really understand us. I like your voice :)
I’m the only INFP in a family full of SJ’s. My mother is an ESTJ and so is my only sibling, my sister. As I’ve explored my personality and functions it’s like a curtain has been pulled back to reveal why I’ve always felt like such a failure and why things that “should” be simple have been so hard for me. I’ve always fought against what is actually my dominant function! To my family, feelings are pesky inconsequential things that should be moved past and put aside. They are inefficient and misleading and distract from getting things done. Trying to shift gears and accept that authenticity is a good thing has been affirming, freeing, and also painful. I’m not good at doing it consciously yet, but even accepting it has been a start.
Something I’ve become aware of is how often I’ve invalidated my own emotions with my mother’s logical voice in my head. I’m having to learn how to self-parent differently now, allowing my feelings not only to surface but to listen to them and observe them, embracing them as essential to my driver. In learning this I’ve also realized that I can negatively use my empathy and understanding of how other people work to invalidate my emotions. For example: I know that my mother can’t see where I’m coming from and what matters to me can’t matter to her, not as a character flaw or for lack of love, but simply because of how she functions. Because I know her intent and how she works, old habits might tempt me into invalidating my pain when she can’t connect with something that means a lot to me. I’m having to learn to allow myself to feel the pain of not connecting, even if it’s no one’s fault.
Around 18ish minutes in Joel was SPOT ON when describing the frustration of invalidation and dismissal. That’s exactly what I’ve felt and he put it into words. It’s hard for me to be around people who require logical reasoning in order for my input to matter…which of course makes me feel like I as a person don’t matter. Sometimes you just want to say, “Can’t you just give me the respect of taking my answer? Can’t you just trust me?” Because I’m not stupid or inept. Sometimes I do know the best answer or solution and I’m not someone who just makes up a bullshit answer. If I don’t know something I’ll say I don’t know it. So when I do know something just trust me. Have I steered you wrong in the past? No! It’s REALLY annoying and degrading sometimes.
Also want to touch on the subject of intent…when someone views me as having selfish motives and I don’t in that instance, it’s devastating because it means they don’t trust me and I’ve worked hard to earn their trust by being empathetic and a safe person for them. Someone trusting me is closely tied with seeing me for who I am and that I do have their best interest at heart. Motive does matter because when you start to realize that everyone thinks they are doing the right thing they become humans with feelings just like you. I posit that if the world was full of INFP’s there would be no war. Of course nothing would get done and we wouldn’t have anything that required math Hahaha.