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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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Sounds right on target to me. Especially the parts about validating our intent. Very interesting. I will listen to this again! And read all the comments when I get time. Thanks!
Thanks. I agree that it’s hard for infps to explain to others why they want to do something and that’s a hard problem. Also, when you were talking about assuming knowing how other people feel that really resonated. Sometimes people get really mad when I tell them how they feel but mostly they don’t tell me how I’m wrong.
Hi Joel and Antonia,
Thank you both soooooo much for this podcast. I have been testing on the fence between INFJ and INFP for the longest time, and listening to this episode revealed that I am an INFP. The part about needing to have alignment in our choices , and often only knowing what the right decision for us after the fact completely resonated with me. Now in typing post-hoc analysis, I feel like while ensuring everyone’s needs mets is ideal (Harmony), if I have a strong stance on an issue close to my heart, I’m less privy to offending someone. Also, in retrospect, the happiest times in my life have some element of travel, and it makes so much sense now why traveling gives me so much joy.
Thank you both again for the wonderful work you’re doing with the podcasts and the website. Looking forward to future episodes and articles!
I’ve been on a journey of self discovery. This podcast makes me feel validated in a huge sense and really gets down to why I feel the way I feel and gives voice to how I feel when I can’t find the right words to do so. There have been many times I couldn’t explain myself. When I’m asked why I think that way, my answer is “because I do”. To me it’s common sense or the most realistic answer but it’s looked it with one eye brow raised….lol. I have always had trouble with talking about love b/c I know how I feel and I feel deeply but I just don’t know the right words to express exactly how I feel.
I also wanted to say something about the not feeling validated part of the podcast. I don’t feel validated b/c my view of the world is being considered Naive. I’m not naive. far from it. i just choose to see things different and treat people nicely and have a good attitude about the world. It doesn’t make me naive but the majority of people view it that way. Which causes me to feel like i’m not being validated. Does that make sense?
As for the job part of the pod cast…YES!!! When I was younger, still in school, my passion was photography. I was set to go to photo school and follow my passion but then got pregnant and couldn’t go. Since then I have held “good” “normal” jobs but I haven’t always felt like I was living someone else’s life b/c these are jobs that you are “supposed” to hold. I worked in HR and am now a phone norse. I married an ISTJ recently that has encouraged me to pick up photography again, which I HAVE!!! and now have my own photo business while still working as a nurse until my photos pick up. Because of my photos my boss gave me a raving recommendation at the spa next door, so now i’m training to be a permanent make-up artist too. Eventually I hope to just to the photos and tattooing.
I started this self discovery journey trying to figure out why I can’t be happy. No matter what i tried to change I couldn’t feel fulfilled. Taking the test on Personality Hacker and reading about my results has really changed my world and I finally feel validated in the way I feel and why I feel this way. I feel like i’m finally able to take steps in the right direction to be happy again.
Lol, Eliot! Thanks for the very authentic comment. ;) Did you know this is INFP week here at Personality Hacker? Keep an eye out for more in-depth INFP content.
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