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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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This podcast was very very accurate for myself, i have recently (within the last year) realised my personality type and verified that my head wasn’t a complete mess! So i’m happy to hear this and see other INFPs agreeing with what they feel. Very accurate podcast and i appreciate the effort you guys put in to truly try and decipher the personality type.
In regards to careers not feeling meaningful or 100% resonating with me is currently my biggest problem in life, causing me many problems but at the same time i do feel like many doors can be opened through the process of addressing the feeling.
I was the typical emo kid in highschool too, so you nailed that part (cringe). Also i have had 1 major relationship when i was 21 (now 24) and she was very emotionally abusive to me which really set me on the wrong track for a few years (thus postponing my realisation of what type of person i REALLY am), next problem is to be willing and sure enough about the right person, sooo hard to do this. So once again just wanted to say thanks for trying to understand the way of thinking and feeling.
Also cannot agree more about not having hard proof of why a decision is bad but we feel we just know it. I work in a pretty intense environment and i have looked like a fool so many times it makes me winch/rage when i think about it. As you were saying the western world are all about hard evidence and “get sh*t done” kind of work styles, this rots me to my core, i feel i do not belong anywhere.
Any questions about INFPs just mail me, I do not have a lot of spare time tonight.
Thank you, thank you for making an INFP podcast! :)
Being an INFP myself, most of the points you made certainly resonated with me. The part where you explained being “misunderstood” versus the desire for “validation” was new to me and actually makes a lot of sense. There was also a point made in the discussion about careers near the end that is something I have been struggling with for nearly two years now. It was something along the lines of not being able to be fully emotionally invested in my work because my perspective towards what I’m doing (which does include lots of data entry, at least in the wintertime) is not aligned with what I feel or perceive to be “right”. Clearly, I am experiencing this right at this moment too because I am responding to your podcast instead of doing my data entry!! Oh, and the part about not feeling aligned with my decision until after making it. Nailed it. I have definitely experienced this. In fact some of the greatest decisions I have made I only realized how good they felt after the whole process had gone through. Even though I have experienced this phenomena, I still find it difficult to reconcile diving into similar decisions without feeling aligned beforehand (take the fact that I still don’t feel comfortable in my place at my current job and dream of diving into a new one, only I don’t feel like the systems are in place for me to make that next step).
I could, and may write more later, but I should probably get back to my data entry during work hours…
thank you so much for making this podcast!
i think it’s so true that we as INFPs need to feel validated… i had such a miserable time in college because my ‘friends’ would constantly call me ‘weird’ and ‘crazy’ even when i told them how much it hurt me. my fantasy is being fully accepted… that i can do/say any strange thing and will be loved and accepted the same amount.
like you guys said, i do think that the ‘misunderstood’ feelings come from others misunderstanding our true intentions because we’re so inward + don’t always show exactly how we are on the outside.
reading Micah Brown’s comment and your response, Joel, that is something people close to me have been telling me all my life (I am 53) – follow your heart OR follow your gut. I don’t do that enough. And then again with the final comment on the INFP podcast about following your passion. I totally agree that if I were to do that, everything else would fall into place.
I have always known that as a parent I am INFP and often feel like a “bad” parent because of my seeming inability to provide rules and boundaries.
Regarding the INFJ podcast, I realized that (at least acc to the 2 podcasts, INFP and INFJ, i am NOT an INFJ but you described one of my best friends SO WELL. And i now get that difference! The INFJ reminds me of a very sad character in the book, The Secret Life Of Bees: May who is oversensitive to pain, and when she gets upset she must write down the sorrowful thing on a paper and stick it in a crack at her “wailing wall,” a wall of stones on the farm.
Hi Josh,
I just posted my response to this podcast,then scrolled up and read your post. It struck me that we have some similar experiences around work and I wanted to respond to you. Have a look at my post if you can (which should also serve to make you feel better about the length and ‘journal style’ of your post!)I don’t have a ‘how to’ answer, but can really relate to what you’ve written, and know that is crucial to do what resonates with you. You need to ‘shine your light’, even just a bit, I’m convinced it will engender a response from others that will show you the path you need to take. There’s nothing worse than us INFP’s when we’re miserable, so while you’re thinking of the impact on your family, maybe you could bare that in mind! we’re too old to be moping around like emos…I too have a family and kids to support through college. I’ve chosen a less stable path but somehow we get through. I agree that there aren’t readily available jobs for us, but through experience, have been amazed at the scope there is to carve your own way, once you get some momentum going. I wish you the very best of luck
Charlotte