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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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It was an interesting cast to hear. Just for you to know, I like them so much, that had been listening to all of them in reverse order for a few weeks now. There are still at least 54 to go ;)
Anyway the females of INFP type for some reason seem very attractive to me. Have had several love from the first sight experiences with them in the past and one is currently on the radar. However all of them ended vainly as if I have tripped some invisible wire along the road, that in turn triggered a negative internal decision and then everything went into the drain pretty quickly. It’s quite frustrating, even cruel, to run into this invisible wall of internally made decision of “I just don’t feel it that way”. No explanation given, no space for corrective actions, no sympathy. You can go and bang your head into the wall literally.
I am beginning to doubt if this is a particularly healthy attraction for me as sometimes it feels like being on a wild goose chase. Reading replies from successful INFJ/INFP pairings here, give me some hope though.
Thanks for your feedback, Lisa! Good luck on your college goals. I’m sure you will be fine! I think your idea of joining study groups is a good one for an INFP. I didn’t go to college until I was almost 40 and I loved it!
This is so so good!! Thank you:)
This podcast hit it on the head… It’s not that I am missed understood as an INFP i— it is that I want what I am feeling to have validation and if I don’t have that then yeah I feel misunderstood. Thank you for bringing validation to my AUTHENTIC thinking and how I make and have made decision 100,000 + times… I always thought there was something wrong with because how I respond to things does not fit especially in American culture. The validation you both brought to an infp allows me to be me — in world where it is not easily accepted. I am not a logical thinker (that is who I am) and like how you both said (INFP) I a hard time with follow through and meeting goals. I am starting college up on Monday and I know this non logic — having a hard time getting things done type of lady lol - that is frustrating especially when your teacher teachings out of logic and expects the same results ugh… Ihough those are my weakness of mine but if I can ask the help or get with people and creat a structure of motivation to light that fire then nothing is impossible. I love that my co pilot is exploration because I love learning that way — couple with authenticity — those two I am unstoppable.
Ha ha I can keep going! Thanks again.. Blessings
Thanks for the feedback! Finding gainful employment that is also fulfilling, ever-changing, and challenging seems to be difficult for a lot of Intuitives. For this reason, I have always believed that Intuitives will likely change careers numerous times in their search for new horizons. Pursue what sounds interesting and make sure you have the freedom to explore and stay excited. :)
Hey, I’m an INFP and I’ve found the podcasts really helpful. I’ve solved a lot of INFP problems through my own intuition, even before becoming familiar with personality types. But psychology and these systems have been a major hack in my life.
What I still have problems with is career. My parents are STJ engineers and they made me believe in hard sciences, but fortunately they also respected arts greatly. I’m a composer and a musician, but in such a niche that it’s really difficult to make a living without true passion. I value people and having relaxed time too much to commit to that fully. Though I’ve been called super talented by professionals etc. I’ve never worked enough for anything basically. School and engineering were kind of easy but so boring I had to quit studying the latter. So I’ve never really figured out how good I could become.
I’ve been thinking about a new approach and I’m in a phase in which I have all the freedom in the world to change the course. Psychology, music and business are my interests currently and these podcasts have given a lot of information to chew on.
Thanks for the good work! :)