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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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Hi Sarah,
If you click on the link below and then the button to open the show in iTunes – it will let you subscribe and also download individual episodes.
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I’m feeling stupid. How do I download this into iTunes? right clicking isn’t working.
I’m 26, pretty sure I am an INFP (I’ve been typed as INFP and INFJ in the past but the article on INFP vs INFJ made the difference clear to me). Forgive my rambling thoughts – I have so many of them and want to get them all out there.
From a young age I was taught things that go against what I’ve felt and known in my core and I’ve spent so much time and energy trying to overwrite my brain to fit into the mold I “should be” fitting into. So much of this podcast really resonated with my core.
Intent and validation are SO very important in an argument to me. I need to know that the person I’m communicating with knows that I don’t have ill intent, but more passionately if I’m listening to somebody grieve about, say, “the salesperson didn’t give me what I wanted, they screwed me over” I NEED for that person to know “the salesperson was not out to get you, they were following procedure and were just doing their job!” As well, Joel’s delving into the restaurant scenario was so spot on. Trying to give a logical reason because that’s what’s expected, but that reason being combated through logic to show it’s illogicality (I think that’s the word :P), and that reason being disproved and invalidated, “so what’s your real reason? come on” and just being so deflated. I seriously thought something was wrong with me for not being able to come up with a reason outside “it’s just what my gut is telling me”, and it’s something I’ve experienced countless times in my life. What a relief to know that I’m not alone in this.
I briefly learned about Aikido a couple of years ago. Emotional Aikido is fascinating to me, it’s something I think I may have used in the past without really realizing what I was doing. I’m not sure if this is a super-power for me – maybe in my attempts to reprogram myself I haven’t put in the hours needed for mastery of this? While I definitely know that emotions are so gradient and nuanced, and I know I mirror / recreate the emotions of those around me, I’m not sure if I can bend the energy of others. I’ve definitely thought “If I was in this situation I would be feeling this way” and that be very inaccurate, so maybe my Fi is not mature in some ways.
The self-doubt and self-punishment (not physical, but emotional) for me is spot on. Something I’ve been taught by various people and environments that if there’s no logical reason for an intense negative emotion then you shouldn’t be feeling it, so I’ll try to squash it or hide it or, most often, chastise myself for feeling it because I shouldn’t be feeling it. I can’t even begin to guess the number of hours I’ve put into that cycle, it’s something I feel on a daily basis. I discovered Mindfulness a while ago and it’s been a big help with me. Giving myself the space and permission to feel the intense negative feelings is something I still struggle with, I feel like I’m more often in a loop than not.
Getting goals accomplished being a thorn in my side – Oh, how true is that for me!!! The “making a living” thing is actually what led me to the personality testing and this podcast, so I’m really glad you included this part in the podcast. If only I could figure out how to follow my passion (which passion? I feel like there are many! I feel like I’m half-assing a Shadow Profession right now). Making decisions based on alignment is very true for me. I’m actually ok with the logistics part (something when I tried to be INTJ), and I don’t really see myself as a leader. I hope you decide to do a more career-centric INFP podcast in the future. I’ll likely be ordering “The Artist’s Way” from Amazon very soon.
Other miscellaneous thoughts – from an elementary school I knew that I was never going to be completely understood (an 8 year old girl who liked video games and classical music?) so I’m quite content with the thought of never being totally understood, it is definitely validation that is key with me. And being able to understand how people are usually feeling, while sometimes turning off that ability and thus appearing cold and uncaring – very spot on.
Thank you so much for this podcast!
Wow thank you for doing this. I am an ENFP/INFP. Thank you!
Haven’t finished this yet… but I got to 18:50… and I just had to say YES… I knew the word that was coming before it came out. As an INFP I have never expected to be understood, but I just want to be accepted and VALIDATED for who I am. I hate being judged by others who think I should be like them… and who want reasons why I have made such and such decision… and I can’t reason the other person into understanding why it is so… but I also can’t make any other decision… and they can’t reason me into feeling differently about it either.
I have felt very very judged for this and it made me feel like my decision make process is wrong, while also being impossible to change, which quickly turns into I AM wrong, and impossible to change. Slightly depressing.
I appreciate your analysis of the situation very very much. If I want other people to learn to take my decision making process seriously, I guess I had better be the first one!