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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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Thanks for your feedback, Nicola! I’m so excited you have found a focus for your growth, and you are interested in exploring how others learn and grow. The world would definitely be a better place if we could learn empathy and compassion for others. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for doing this podcast Really really resonates. I’m a INFP on the test and every part of what you said made sense to me. I think just hearing your words has given me some further clarity on how INFP’s experience their reality and yes rather then understanding I think it is more about the justification and recognition of a person who is INFP, as I agree in many parts of the Western world in particular those personality types are not given full credence or credibility or even acceptance. So sometimes you can really question your own process.So thanks. I perked up when you said that Richard Branson is a INFP as that someone I respect and who has definately had an impact on the world. Also concidentally I watched Boyhood the other day and really enjoyed it, and could see how the director was also likely to be this type. Focussing on Exploration is now key for me and was the way I was leaning, you guys have given me another marker in the right direction. So thanks for what you are doing. This podcast has really shone a light on things. I’m as interested to learn about the other types because in a world where we can relate to each other even if not coming from the same place or space all sounds good to me!
Oh, totally. For that matter, why do we have Te-doms? It’s not like other people can’t run businesses and organize stuff. They seem so overbearing and always need things their way.
Oh, and Ti-doms. What dicks. It’s like they have to win every argument. Ti-secondaries are really good at being scientists and calling out truth, right? Let’s just get rid of those guys, too.
There. Now everything is awesome. ;)
A
p.s. I’m assuming you’re kidding, since the idea of removing two entire personality types from the social ecosystem would be a disaster, no matter how you feel about those types. Fi primaries aren’t redundant little Lokis running around. I’m not sure if you’ve run into a slew of undeveloped Fi primaries, or if you’re in the middle of your developmental journey and have trouble perspectiving into the mindset of others at this time. Either way, even if we don’t personally like or ‘get’ another type that doesn’t mean they’re some sort of evolutionary mistake. While other types can and are exceptional artists, there are no other two types consumed with the need to create art. If there were no Fi primaries in the world we’d see a substantial amount of art disappear. Yes, other types can be and are socially aware. But if there were no Fi primaries in the world we’d have more complacency about our causes. We wouldn’t have the fire that lights us up in the social consciousness, something we all benefit from when Fi primaries are represented.
Don’t think of us as silos. We’re all part of a social matrix. You pull the plug on any one or two types and the entire collective unconscious shifts. And not for the better. ISTJ men aren’t usually huge fans of me – they basically see me as the antithesis to everything they stand for. And, despite that, I’m so very, very glad they exist. Even if we’re not going to be BFFs and braid bracelets for each other.
I have trouble recognizing why dom-Fi is so important in the world, honestly. It’s not like INFJs are incapable of personal insight impacting Fe, and secondary Fi emphasizes individual morals quite well. It just seems like dom-Fi in particular is kind of useless and causes more personal suffering than it actually gives back. It’s not like dom-Fi users are inherently the best artists, either. I just have trouble recognizing it’s significance… if it didn’t exist in the world, there might be a bit more conformity but I don’t think it would be all-out chaos in the way it would be if there were only Fi.
Also, the emotional aikido thing: how is this any different than being around a person who’s feeling strong emotions at a given moment? This doesn’t seem like a specific personality power, just the effect of being in the presence of emotions.
Thank for the comment Allyse. We are working on some ENFJ advice. Would you be willing to let us know your ENFJ challenges here:
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