INFP Superpowers and Kryptonite

INFP's have two incredible abilities (among many others) and an especially dangerous trap that they can fall into. This video delves into these positive and negative aspects of being an INFP.

[katrinas_wildflowers]

What a beautiful person you are. Polished, intelligent and a beautiful voice

[drago]

INFPs have the superpower of becoming who they believe they are. It can be a two edged sword, but very powerful if wielded well

[otheusrex]

You put the kryptonite into such perspective for me. Thank you so much for that.

That ties into a superpower for the infp: articulation, a way with words, phrasing something in a way that drips with verisimilitude.

Regarding the kryptonite. As a male infp there can be a lot of barriers towards accepting one's emotions or focusing on them. This can make the male infp not realize or see his emotional sensitivity as something of value, and can set off the low self esteem by itself, believing he has no talents that society puts value on. Once they're in turtle mode, this can not only male reaching out for support harder but people can misjudge when men are seeking emotional support and reinforce the wrong things instead. Ex, a man might legitimately need to feel the love and a shoulder to cry on, but when sharing his sadness he instead gets advice and people reassuring him that he can overcome his problems himself.

[Empoart]

This was really spot on for me, especially about the Turtle Mode... It makes me really happy to see these kind of videos from fellow INFPs! Thanks for the insightful video!

[russellmcdonald]

I love your term turtle mode. That’s perfect at describing that aspect of us infps. Also, I feel like you addressed some of the most challenging areas that I have dealt with but maybe not in the best way. I wonder if we can overprotect ourselves from others and from circumstances and still be interactive with others and still active in a job and other areas of life. Almost like we are in the turtle shell but projecting an image of ourselves that we feel is more acceptable and safe from fearful situations.

[mrz]

Hey Paula. I wanted to share some insights while my mind is still focused, lol. I believe that with our introverted feeling, we analyze the values behind the feelings, and we use that to help us gauge how closely we feel to people. At our best, we know how to pick good people. Unfortunately, when we are blind sighted by focusing on seeing the good in people, we can set ourselves up for a lot of hurt. This is what happened when I was in a friendship with a very unhealthy ENFJ.

When it comes to our "turtle mode", we misuse our introverted sensing by keeping ourselves safe. We can turn it around by focusing on improving the quality of our health (e.g. better sleep, eating, etc.). By being too much in turtle mode, we certainly don't do much, and we miss out on extraverted sensing. Sometimes, we just need to "do" things, so to speak. Also, our natural opposition to extraverted feeling can tie into being out of touch with emotional feedback from others, relating to things of which you spoke.

When you talked about that overwhelm from all the emotions of others, I definitely relate to that. If we don't set boundaries with people, they can come to us so much for emotional support while we may get little to none.

[danab]

I'm very lost in life. 😞 I like you though. Wish I could hang out with you honestly.

[DreamsOfFire]

7:00 hits hard! Turtle Mode is such a real thing and so hard to get out of! But it's nice to know other ppl go through that too.

Great video!

[daveswensen]

I have recently learned about the 16 personalities. I have felt fairly certain that I am indeed an INFP. After watching this, it drove several points home. You speak so eloquently and accurately about the subject and it is so much appreciated. I only regret not learning this early in my life, I have spent so many years thinking that I was just broken. It's like a light has been shone on a very dark room.

[michaelhenry]

i like your metaphors, especially the bat reference.

[ojovathiramakrishnan]

I think the turtle mode is due to the fact that when we really don't come across sincere emphatetic listeners who have had similar journey and willing to give solutions that we may be really able to implement thus making us feel that we have to make our own way. As you mentioned since we are deeply introverted we feel everyone with our own emotions but the truth may not be the same. When we are really down it is better we should become extroverted but instead we become introvert so that we can find a solution to the mess thereby going hard on to ourselves. Over the years I have seen that if little hardness which we show to ourselves is casted on others they feel really terrible. So I think we can be little softer when self critical so that we don't hurt ourself too much. We need external help only to keep track with the external world reality check which we often miss. So personally I think we have to balance introvertion and extrovertion so that we can be at peace with the wordly routine. Becoming extroverted from being introverted needs a big kick at the back though 😜

[BinWeyde]

Can we also talk about how we're procrastinators, i have two other INFP friends and it bothers me how we all seem to leave things for the last minute, or never get anything done😂😂😂

[gentianvandewerken]

the infp personality is a high quality thing, so put yourself around high quality to make your rare personality type work for you I dont mean slick or grandiose but poetic high quality!

[dannisayseffyou]

When we’re sad we think about what people are sad about. My bad habit 😔

[ahhi]

We have no superpower..oh yes just one, being overlooked.