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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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Hey Kristina. Thank you for the comment. I appreciate your thoughts above.
I’m excited you are getting The Artist’s Way. Let me know how it works for you.
See you around the Personality Hacker community.
~Joel
Thanks Katherine. There is a good reason why you feel like you are on the fence between ENFP/INFP.
Check this out:
http://www.personalityhacker.com/podcast-episode-0044-does-the-ambivert-personality-exist
Thanks Missy for coming on here and sharing. It can be very powerful to feel validated… especially for an INFP.
And I think you are onto something…
“If I want other people to learn to take my decision making process seriously, I guess I had better be the first one!”
Well said.
~Joel
Laura!
So awesome to hear from you. Thanks for the comments above. It can be a powerful experience to have someone explain how your heart works.
Hang in there. The darkness you “see” in your heart is a tool for you to help others work through their darkness too. We all have it. Some of us are just really in touch with it.
As far as getting things done – I’m eagerly seeking resources and helps for us INFPs and ENFPs that can help us make things happen in the outer world.
One thing I think INFPs can be really good at is embodying a vision for something and feeling it so strongly that it oozes out to others. They catch the vision and can make it happen.
Hope to keep seeing you around the Personality Hacker community and very happy the world has someone like you in it.
~ Joel
It’s past 12AM and I’m here writing this thing, with an exam due tomorrow (screw you effectiveness, thiiisss is worth it) because you need to know that you had me on tears, smiling and nodding to the point my sister just looked at me weird (ok, she didn’t see me cry, only being all smiley, but it was worth it because I was able to explain her a few things about me).
Guys, I think I’ve never felt more “understood” until I listened to you talking. I was able to put a label, so to speak, to things I knew about me but haven’t been able to explain or put into words. I really love the way how you call the Fi function Authenticity, it really illustrates how we work and how important our values or “feelings” are for us, and I’m really glad that people out there know how valuable the Fi function is; to be honest I never took the time to think about a world without Fi, how Antonia said, but man, it’s true.
I’ve come to terms with the fact that no one will ever understand me as well as no one can truly understand another person, so yeah, I’m not expecting for everyone to do it, just to validate me as you said (and oh please, I hope no one would ever will). It’s good to know that in some level I have matured with my Authenticity and on my way with the Ne/Exploration (though so far from the Te, oh well). You know, I wasn’t even aware of the “emotional Aikido”, but I’ve done it before on an unconscious level, which really just shows how Fi is our primary function.
Joel, I can’t even recall all the things you said you wanted a feedback of, but let me tell you that all were on the right path. I was weeping with the last part about the “darkness” in our hearts, I can vividly remember situations in my life I felt that darkness creeping out and how I compared myself to another person who wasn’t able to see her “bad things” and how affected I was because of that. I’ve come far from those times, fortunately. And yes, people have called me (or thought about me, and I knew because it was all over their faces) cold, indifferent, apathetic… and so many other things, when actually it’s the opposite.
Just to finish this, at first I was like, mirrored empathy, really?? I used to feel that I was just good at “feeling” other people’s feelings or read them, just know it or sense their energy (sometimes I call it aura :P), but I do now realize that all this time I’ve been comparing their feelings to mine. I’ve mapped my heart, known my feelings so well, but actually it’s a map with no labels and feelings with no names, but I just know them.
And thanks, you’ve helped me to decide about this one thing about my career choice and what I want to do. Get things done has always been my Achilles heel and I’m not persistent or persevering all the time, but I’ll try. And I’ll keep in mind the advice about keeping people, especially ‘STJs to help me.