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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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Thank you for this pod cast. I found it eye opening. I have known for a long time that I am an INFP. It wasn’t until finding your website that I began to understand and become interested in the cognitive functions that basically wire my brain and thus create the tendencies that make me an INFP. It’s incredible how it illuminates my soul, which is probably my life’s mission. With some thought, I believe that I have been a turbulent INFP that is in the “maturing stage”. One key indicator that I’m not a “mature INFP” is that I haven’t found my life’s work and I am often thinking what could I be doing that could truly be right for me. It didn’t help that I found out I had undiagnosed ADD as well, which would impact any type, but I can’t help but feel, especially my type. I have understood on so many levels that I have been marginalized in society for who I am and also for undiagnosed ADD tendencies. However, I am on my path towards truth and self-actualization. For a long time I didn’t want to be an INFP because it felt like I was marginalized so often in my life for it but I couldn’t deny it was true. Still, I acted like a chameleon in many situations because it was a skill I had due to my ability to mirror others emotions. It was my survival technique. I think that knowing your type and how to work with it is basically everyone’s path towards self-actualization as defined by Maslow. Some types can live their type without fully understanding how it works. I know as an INFP it would have been incredibly hard for me to be true to myself with out having understood my wiring and my type. Types who naturally fit with our culture will likely be able to “mature” more easily than types who are traumatized or marginalized for their truth. Some things you said that I think aren’t inherently true to INFP’s though are that we want to be understood for our process and our feeling maps that actually make a lot of sense. That doesn’t mean I need to be understood compIetely but I do think that I want more than validation that it works for me. I want validation that it works for any decision that needs to made based on values rather than logic. There are so many decisions like this that need to be made and I want others to see me as an expert in this. mature INFPs know deeply how this is such a stumbling block in our lives to have a process that no one will validate and/can’t validate. I would love for society to see the error in their ways because it is so painful to me and all INFPs
I feel you and resonate with all you said. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for this. I think I will start to give myself permission to be how I am, how I want to be. Never felt so validated on my life. Got me crying all the way through.
This reads more like INFP Girl scratched something within you. Yes, we get it, you’re smarter and more misunderstood than everybody else, and certainly more rational. It’s not terribly surprising that you’d come on an INFP podcast to analyze and put INFPs in their place, rather than offer them support and empathy. It’s hard to validate someone else’s experience, however, when you believe you’re smarter and more insightful than everyone else.
Again, you may be good at reading ppl. That’s fine. I am telling you that in my life experience, no matter how much I have opened up basically revealed everything about my deeper self very articulately word by word (because certain ppl I WANT to see me), there is a still an inability from the other side to really get me.
Secondly (and more importantly), many people don’t have to work as hard for other people to “see through them”. The very fact that I have to really put effort into letting other people see me I think makes the point clear. We are not NATURALLY seen as who we are. Ever since I was a little girl, I have always experienced how people viewed me in ways that were so different than how I experienced myself. Not because I try to come across as mysterious or the like, but because the way my personality is built (or brain functions) creates a natural dissonance between my outer persona and my inner world experience that tends to be greater gap-wise than many other personality types. (I don’t know why you have the need to insist that all personality types are equally the same when they are clearly not.)
Bottom line, you might want to consider opening up to at least the POSSIBILITY that people on this planet actually experience the same reality you experience, though entirely different filters and consequently in completely different ways.