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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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I’ve listened to the podcast twice – it was long and I really felt I missed things the first time. I am fascinated by the fact that this podcast is an hour and twenty minutes – maybe the longest here. Also, it has 59 comments. INFPs may be have trouble being validated by other types, but we are very good at validating each other.
I took your genius test and obviously got INFP. The first weakness listed is “project management”. I am a project manager, specifically right now an international summit organizer. Which seems weirdly wrong as I’m very introverted and should have poor planning skills. But here’s where understanding your passion comes in (which I thought was brilliant!)My passion is helping people. And my job (except the mountain of paperwork) is all just helping people. And even a lot of the paperwork is helping people. Just data entry is boring and repetitious – to me. I know I need challenge and stimulation – that I can control to a moderate degree. It took me a long time to learn that the validation I need isn’t from people who understand me or why I do the things I do – it’s when they thank me for being me. Because being weird and intuitive – you guys call it “authentic” – makes it really easy for me to understand what other people want or need and I have a job that makes it easy to do those things. I often get “farmed out” to other departments to help them with their “people pleasing” issues and honestly, it is the best validation I have ever received. Ever. Being a “proactive people pleaser” (which basically means I intuitively try to prevent problems before conflict does happen) allows me to use my strengths – even creativity. Like the podcast said, I don’t need people to crawl inside my mind but I am validated as an INFP every time someone recognizes that I just “know” how to get things done. A co-worker accused my of being “psychic” the other day. I just winked at her and walked away . . .
Being a people pleaser and avoiding conflict to the nth degree does have a down side and I have wondered for a long time if there is evidence of INFP or INFJ types being involved in abusive relationships more than other types? I have found, personally, that I stay in relationships – both personal and work – for longer than is healthy because I do have the ability to understand why someone is behaving a certain way. Which, in the past, has led me to justify their behaviour. I’m not saying that this is true for all, I am curious if there is any data about it?
Really? That’s interesting. I do know this woman was spending way too much time in her Si Tertiary. I kept trying to tell her she should get out and explore. Maybe she got tired of hearing it. Although I think it is just as likely that I used too much radical honesty (I’m way more comfortable with my Ti-tertiary than I should be, too).
I will look into those Google results and see if I can narrow it down a little more. ;)
A more serious explanation would be that Fi dominants tend to accumulate hurt quietly inside until the point they explode. What’s more, underdeveloped Fe can be perceived as manipulative and therefore add to that hurt.
Googling about INFPs cutting off people produces quite a lot of results. Maybe Antonia and Joel could comment more on this?
Ditto! My wild guess would be that since INFJs can be so uncanny good at getting into other people heads, maybe we accidentally approach something that’s for private eyes only and then the alarms go off :)
Overall I have shrugged those experiences as the other person acting immaturely.
Thanks for the comment, Tamagochi! I was fascinated to hear your experiences with INFPs. I had a similar experience recently with a woman I would go for walks with. I’m an INFJ. She’s an INFP. I thought everything was going along swimmingly, when it all turned awkward and ended. I have no idea what happened, but I assume I said something that rubbed her the wrong way. I am currently working to rest into that knowledge without obsessing as to what I may have said. Glad I’m not the only one! :)