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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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As an INFP you guys are totally nailing it! My struggle is much more about being marginalized and dismissed than it is being misunderstood. my desire to be understood has way more to do with being validated as an intelligent, capable human being. I need this validation from others so that I can also give it to myself.
This video hit the nail on the head for me. You were completely right when you said INFPs feel marginalized and like no one takes them seriously. It is so frustrating and disheartening! Glad to know there are some people out there that understand this point :)
I think I finally understand why it bothers me so much when people say, “I think a lot of people feel that way.” No! It’s my feeling. It’s not the same as everyone else’s. Maybe some people feel better that they aren’t alone in a feeling, but that phrase just makes me feel “misunderstood”
Hey Kristina,
Your post has a real feel of needing to fix a flaw in your psyche – I am sooo acquainted with that it’s untrue! And the talk about the intent behind statements, that’s so me too. I don’t find that to be the case with some other INFP’s – I think there must be subtypes of INFP because I definitely feel more attuned in a creepy way with some than others. I’m not so eager to share my internal feeling because in all truth I’m ashamed of a lot of them and don’t feel I have the right to openly show them? Odd.
Anyways, do you know your enneagram type? I’ll admit there’s some self interest going on here in that I think we probably have the same type based on the short paragraphs you’ve written, and I haven’t settled on one yet so you knowing yours would help me a lot haha!
Cheers,
Beth
Hi Mickayla,
Not sure if you’ll get this but thought I’d reply anyway. It’s possible that your friend really doesn’t trust who he is and feels as though his thought processes are wrong somehow. INFPs are highly adaptable, and being that we can put ourselves in other people’s shoes (thoughts and feelings-wise) we can feel what others are feeling, and completely understand others thought processes. Because of this ability to adapt so easily to allow for those around him maybe he’s allowed himself to get a bit lost in more dominating personality types. This is just a hypothesis, only your friend knows what’s going on inside his head, and if he really is an INFP then it’s likely a bottomless pit!