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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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Discussion on the racial content aside (welcomed after I get my question answered tho ;-),
What are your guesses as to this mans personality type? Given he seems so skilled at mapping his inner experience, emotions, etc I see hints of an INFP…yet if you’re that skilled at ur inner map- it’d likely be a map w/ no labels, emotions w/ no names, etc. and you’d also have a verbal communication deceit. In which type would these two qualities intersect? The skilled inner mapping AND skilled communication/eloquence/articulation verbally….much less publicly at this type of forum!
I find the verbal communication deficit a huuuuge stumbling block in my life as an INFP, so this post & question is just my attempt to unpack it all a bit better. The inability to explain yourself accurately & adequately EVER, is not how to show in the world as your best self….in addition to the fact that its frustrating AF. Wanting to take a closer look at the types that have been able to accomplish both & see how they did it. Know more about the minutiae- which is why I’ve posted this very specific clip….I couldn’t just rely on asking the question in a specific enough way that I would find out the information I’m after…..so I had to find a PERFECT example of something I want to know more about & show it you first & ask about that.
Thanks in advance y’all!I’m still unsure of my type, but I feel like I relate to this a lot… especially the part where Joel basically says (paraphrasing) that it’s not just that we can see where humans go dark, but we see it go there in ourselves. In my day to day life, this resonates because it’s so easy for awful immoral thoughts to pop up out of nowhere. And, when this happens, I end up loathing myself. But, at the same time, I am also compassionate towards myself, reminding my core that I am not the only one who struggles with this. I wonder if our brains conjure these dark thoughts and feelings as a means of testing our inner values. And in some way, this probably happens in every human. If you’ve ever heard of the tale “Two Wolves”, you’ll know that in this tale, the grandfather is telling his grandson there is a war going on inside us.
A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other.
One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery, and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred, and fear.
The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”
The grandfather quietly replies, “The one you feed.”
I cannot thank you enough for this podcast. I am almost in tears. I really needed this having had some issues and been upset about being INFP. And, the fact that you point out the INFJ and INFP differences helps a lot too. This is the first thing that has given me a little bit of being ok of owning this. This is huge, thank you guys so much!!
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I’m curious what personality type would feel most marginalized? I tendencies, F decision making tendencies, and tendencies to be weak on accuracy and effectiveness makes me think INFP’s might be the most marginalized of them all. We are very counter-cultural. Which could lead to us having a hard time being healthy best versions of ourselves.