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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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At the risk of sounding “woo,” yet coming from Effectiveness [INTJ here], perhaps the best method to access the deepest truths of an INFP would be to use the muscle-testing questioning method… “Does this feel good or bad?” “Is this the best way to go?” Yes or No response conventions.
Is it possible for an INFJ or ENFJ to change into an INFP by observing one, and imitating them, and copying the things they are interested in? Really hoping for a response on this one :)
I feel dumb. I think before when I’ve listened to this podcast, I didn’t fully embrace that I was an INFP. Today things are reasonating with me. Mostly around following passion, possibly because I have gone to long not doing that that I feel like I now have no passions. The thing that really hit me today listening to this for the… 5th or 6th time, was what Antonia mentions about the “Shadow Artist” in Julie Cameron’s “The Artist Way”. When I was a kid, I really loved video games ( I still do, but I cut myself off from them because I thought I needed to always be “productive” ) and I wanted to be a play tester. I think I probably really wanted to make games but didn’t think I was smart enough. Teachers also told me I couldn’t make a living playing video games ( oh how wrong she was ). Anyway, I then started to say I wanted to be a programmer and I distanced myself from the video game aspect. Now I’m a Software Engineer an I hate it. It’s funny to me now that in college a professor told me I needed to find my passion, or I wouldn’t amount to anything. I thought he was just being an ass, but on some level he was right and I wish he would have articulated himself better so I could have understood then!
I feel like Joel and Antonia need a standing ovation! I come from a developing country where talking about self-actualisation and personality types in everyday talk is a thing of the future when all everyone talk about is politics, the economy, the weather, donor aid etc..etc. This is such a breath of fresh air for me as an INFP. I first took the myer-briggs personality test when I was a senior in high school (some 14 years ago), just so our guidance counsellors could direct us in the right path regarding the best career to choose (not helpful at all!). Anyway fast forward14 years, two mbti tests later (which turned out to be INFP, talk about authentic, lol), i stumbled across your youtube channel quite recently like 3 weeks ago. Now in my early 30s i again took your personality hack online test and lo and behold, came out as an INFP….lol. To be honest no one has really broken down the INFP as you both have and believe me i’ve read blogs and watched youtube channels (some by INFPs themselves) but you both have now explained that what i feel and how i see the world is not crazy at all! I’m just being my authetic self! I absolutely agree with what i think Joel, stated that we feel marginalised and dismissed more than being misunderstood. The Emotional Akido that Antonia observed about us is so true! I never give it much thought when i do this! I have a temperamental mother who i’ve used emotional akido on so many times to switch her from a heated mood to calm…i do believe its a super-power! Thanks Antonia for putting a term to this. I now accept and appreciate that no one can fully understand me because deep down i actually don’t want to be fully understood, because it scares me that the most important/secret part of me will be exposed/unearthed and i will lose my individiality. Thank you Joel and Antonia for allowing me to embark on this journey with your community. I look forward to more content on INFPs and other personality types. :) :)
Thanks for this podcast! All you are saying makes so much sense to me. I am getting 40 this year and looking back, the understanding of myself has been a major struggle all my life. I also grew up in an environment where my individuality was rather a burden than a gift. So i tried and tried and tried to fit in…unsuccesfully…with big consequences for my own mental health, relationships, work choices, life choices,… But I always kept on searching ‘what was wrong with me’. Last year I changed the question to ‘perhaps I am not so wrong, but I am just me. What does it mean to just be me?’ And it turned out to be a very good change of direction for my search :-). Finally I feel some ground under my feet, some direction, some ‘guidelines’ to navigate myself through this life without this constant inner feeling of not being good enough, always making wrong decisions, not fitting in, seeing myself as some kind of an alien,… I listened twice to the podcast in two days and it gives such a relieve! Thanks so much for your work. It is mindblowing for me to see what you guys are achieving. Such insight and what a fantastic way of putting your knowledge in words. You are truly gifted. Lots of love, Ellen (Belgium)