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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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From my own perspective as an INFP…I think "misunderstood is a very poor choice of words. While I think it sort of communicates the meaning to a degree, I feel it connotes something that isn’t fully developed, ostensibly, in all INFPs. The fact that, at least for me, there is an internal, emotional frame of reference we use to relate to different people. We become the mindset, emotions, or energy that complements and hopefully helps other people. In that sense, we will be inevitably misunderstood in a necessarily literal way. When you communicate with people in this way, you have a skill set that a lot of people do not have, and because of that, how can they really understand you? If you are lucky enough to be able to communicate this to someone to begin with. I had to take a detour into the world of computer programming for many years at the age of 19 that allowed me to develop other cognitive functions earlier in life for me to be more in touch with that. Though it is really more than that. But that’s part of my personal story. I don’t know if other INFPs can relate to the more general pattern in what I’ve had to say.
Just found this podcast! Wow what a great indepth discussion. I’ve known for quite awhile that I’m an INFP but have never really taken/had the time to really understand what that means until not. This podcast had me in tears at times (not to be dramatic) simply because I experienced a form of validation. My current struggle is career. From what I’ve read this isn’t out of character for an INFP. I was stuck, or felt stuck, in a job I hated for way to long. Long story short, the economy turned and I was let go. My struggle is with focusing on providing for my family and either being able to make it following my artistic passions or getting another job that just doesn’t align with who I am. In order to pursue my passion (which I’m still working through) I would need to turn all my focus on making that work..and that is a frightening thing to do.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this podcast! Thanks and keep up the good work!
Omg, just when the podcast finished i noticed that my life is f****ed.
As an INFP my passion is finding a partner who really understands me.
lol, is all i have left to say
INFPs dont want to be understood, we need to be understood. Its hard for us to articulate I think because we dont often think of ourselves thru then lens of Me and what I desire, or we know what we want or have thoughts we never share because saying them out loud they sound awful and can be misinterpreted, and we dont have the words because we dont think to say it and lack context. We yearn for those relationships that are marked by not what we say, but what we never need to say… All my relationships are plagued with a sense of isolation, I know I have a very nuanced understanding and perceptiveness, Im always supporting and manipulating and nudging peoples emotions its pathological and overt, for the most part even my close relations feel one sided in some hard to pin down way, my deep needs for comfort and understanding do not need words I need contact in a way I know I give other people constantly but feel abandoned in my needs from others. This only seems to filled by other INFPs and ENFPs when they sit still long enough to trust them. Communication becomes a flow of subtle expressions and nuances and meanings behind words and tones… entire conversations flow like giant inside jokes above the heads of everyone around us, we are in sync our information is not being thrown away its being used and we are being heard and understood, someone is listening to us the way we listen to you and this is not done with simple words, its tone and expression and a rich language and its with those rare people I feel a sense of peace and support and safety… a filled longing that is absent in most of my relationships so bad it hurts..
I have felt dismissed many times as a little illogical girl, although I am a grown 32 year old working woman, because in the heat of a discussion I cannot verbalized my conviction about something. I really apreciated this podcast because it made me understand this part of myself and that I just need to use different tools when talking to efficient people, like my father, and bosses. I have learned through my jobs that I have to use different techniques to communicate strategies to possible donors, and after this podcast I can see how it correlates in personal life.
Concerning the discussion about a sense of darkness in one’s self, I lately am feeling this burden to draw attention to it in Other’s because I doubt they acknowledge it, but this has made me realize that I possibly shouldn’t put that much weight to these ideas, as it may just be part of the human condition and that others would not value those types of discussions as like feelings and ethics are both obscure topics.