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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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Wow, numerous aspects of that podcast literally reduced me to tears because of the depth of understanding that’s been portrayed. Particularly in relation to being marginalised and dismissed – this is something I’ve felt my entire life, and you guys just summed it up perfectly. I only found out my type at the beginning of the year and it’s been a total game changer for me, and as a flow-on, to my family as we discovered that we have two INFPs and two INFJs in our immediate family. Reading and listening to the research that people like the two of you have done totally validates aspects of who we are and has made us feel like it’s actually ok to be the way we are. I’m now studying to be a counsellor which is all I’ve ever wanted.
I also loved that you went over how to get things done and the types to surround yourself with. My future husband is an ISTJ which can be challenging at times as we’re soooo different, but he is everything that I need to get me mobile! I’m a Christian and feel that God put him in my life for a reason and for us to learn from each other, and when you mentioned that INFPs should surround themselves with ISTJs in particular it just affirmed so much for me.
Antonia, your appreciation of our type was quite evident and I felt you really understood us, which is no mean feat considering we’re walking contradictions at times, and especially considering that it’s very different to your own type.
Thank you to both of you for your incredible insight, keep up the good work!
Jemma
I often feel lost and can’t understand life, and there are those short moments where I feel that I understand myself and feel calm, when I listen to you guys, those good moments extend, I feel like you opened my head and saw what’s in there, you really encouraged me to explore more, I really want to go out my comfort zone but I’m a little bit hesitated, there’s a lot to learn from you and I’m sure that will help with the hesitation.
Note for Antonia: your words are very inspirational and motivate me, but please can you slowdown, I know you’re passionate and sincere when you talk, you mentioned a lot of great ideas and I need to take my time to validate them and connect them with other ideas.
Thank you
Greetings from Saudi Arabia
Wow. Well, it doesn’t sound like you took objection to anything I said. You just don’t really like my voice. Or, rather, my vocal intonation. Which is totally fine – not everyone’s gonna dig the pipes or how I talk, and it would be silly to assume they would.
That said, I’m baffled how you picked up dislike/scorn/frustration/judgment from me, particularly about INFPs. My ex-husband who remains one of my closest friends is an INFP, as was as my late best friend, a person who I saw as both friend and mentor. I’ve always seemed to attract them through life and have an admitted bias toward the type. Is it possible you’re projecting onto me something that isn’t mine?
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I just want to applaud what you guys do. I’ve waffled between INFP and INFJ forever (and actually just tested as INFJ on your site). After listening to both podcasts, I can say with confidence I’m an INFP. Listening to this felt like you guys knew me personally. I particularly liked how you explained the difference in how INFJs and INFPs read and experience others’ emotions. You explained exactly how I put myself in others shoes. For instance, I might compare a friend’s romantic troubles to some of my own in the past, to the point that I can vividly recall how I felt—I’m then able to empathize with and validate her experience while also reframing it so she can see the positive in the situation that I came to learn. You also perfectly captured the paradoxical feelings of uniqueness vs. connection to all of humanity, particularly through an artistic lens. Finally, you did a wonderful job of describing the dark side of INFPs. I think one reason we feel misunderstood is that many type descriptions paint us as these dreamy, optimistic fairies. I will definitely be listening to this podcast again to fully digest it!
Argh…It’s need really hard for me to listen to this podcast. I noticed as I was typing this, my lip was still slightly curled from listening to Antonia describe, well, basically the whole thing. I perceived dislike/scorn/frustration and oddly enough, judgement. And maybe it’s just me, but I took an instant step back from her because of it. Tone and annunciation are big-time tools in my belt; I can decipher tones, cuts, clips, drawls, trills, etc etc and get a good idea of what is really being said. Sometimes it is what it is, other times there are undertones of things not being said.
I personally prefer not to feel judged. It makes me angry. Trivialized. And I suppose I may feel a touch superior because I’ve gone through mental ww3 through ww-I-lost-count and have seen so many perspectives and considered so many ideas, that I’ve earned my stripes to have an opinion that isn’t dismissed before I’ve even finished my stammering. Heh. I just can’t get the message from my brain to my mouth in order to describe what i know. I end up getting treated like a child who gets a pat on the head. Or getting told to, “get over it already”, or my absolute favorite, “What’s wrong with you? Just pull yourself up by your….” blah blah, heard that one before.