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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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Feeling marginalized is exactly right. As an INFP I want people to recognize and acknowledge my process of knowing what I know to be true is legitimate. I have learned that metaphor is the best way of expressing myself so other’s can understand. Poetry is my favorite way of expression.
Someone once told me they knew me and how and why I did something. My response was you know exactly what I want you to know. How dare you assume what I’m feeling!
As far as seeing positive and negative intent we know it because we have been there.
I have been told in the past I have a problem letting go of things. This is because I need to completely understand my emotions before I can come to terms with them.
So it appears that INFPs can really understand another person’s experience as long as they are in a psychologically healthy state (i.e., utilizing the copilot of Ne), and can take in plenty of outer world input about what’s going on for the other person so to potentially help them better express authentic emotions. If unhealthy, however, then they just feel deep personal misunderstanding because they can’t express themselves. Yet, for the INFJ, they understand others’ experiences so wel to begin with, just naturally. They can’t help but absorb what’s going on for others. However, when they are at an underdeveloped state psychologically they, too, cannot do much with that input besides feeling acute pain (e.g., deep psychic pain from feeing others emotions), and won’t be able to help someone heal. So recommendations for INFJs to grow boundaries through Fe makes sense, and so does for INFPs to grow experientially in the outside domain so they can expand their worldview.
This podcast resonated with me in so many ways. I’ve always felt misunderstood by society, and it makes sense that what I’m feeling in this is invalidation and that my intentions are misunderstood. It makes sense that truly we are unable to manifest our emotions and reasonings in the physical world, and so therefore it’s diifficult to articulate our motivations. It truly touched me at the end, talking about how we truly need to feel passion and purpose in our lives and choices. Lastly, when you speak of the darkness within an INFP and how we can map our darkness in a way that others may not be able to or are not willing to, it’s so indicative of my self depricated nature. Recently I’ve discovered a lot of artists I feel kinship to are in fact INFPs like me and it’s just such a revelation because these artists truly spell out the darkness I have always felt misunderstood or not accepted by society. So it’s truly helped me to try and change my self deprication into something more kind to myself. I’ve always felt, too, that INFPs can be much more harsh on themselves than others in ways that cannot be explained to others. The fact that we understand all the nuances in our hearts truly makes sense. I have come out of this with much more understanding of myself. Thank you.
I don’t feel misunderstood…I don’t feel understood period….lol
Yes! That would be amazing to be able to do that!