Are you SURE you're an INFP - the dreamy idealist?

Are you an INFP - The Mediator? Strategies for Growth
INFPs are one of the most misunderstood types, and one of my favorite of the MBTI personality types! The Mediator has 4 cognitive functions that show up in specific ways - let's talk about INFP growth!

0:00 Intro
0:49 Convert four letters to Cognitive Functions
3:52 What is Fi?
4:48 What is Ne?
6:06 What is Si?
6:54 What is Te?
7:38 Why you need to be an ambivert
9:10 You're being too introverted
12:16 Your style of extroversion #1
13:44 Your style of extroversion #2
16:54 Your unique gift to the world

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[annieshielamontolo]

I believe it's an Infp thing that every time we are stuck in a fi-si loop we always tend to dream in leaving this crazy society and live a peaceful life in the middle of a meadows nowhere.

[Ajayjohnson]

As an INFP using Te is like Mario getting the ⭐️ lol Just a brief period of productivity, then back to La La land ☁️ love your vids

[andmiran]

I am an unhealthy INFP who is always searching for things on the internet to explain myself back to me. I've taken all of the quizzes, done all the research, looked into all of my astrology, the list goes on. I'm just always looking for something that tells me how and why I am the way that I am. So when I say this I'm almost fed up with myself, because I always find things that I relate to and see myself in but I never do anything about it lol. But I honestly have never been so called out so perfectly as I have been by this video lol. Absolutely everything was on fucking point. I've been in the loop for quite some time now. And I've been working a 9-5, soulless, excel-ridden existence for the last 3 years and I've hated every second of it. And I've stuck with it because I tell myself, it pays well and has benefits and you don't have to worry about your next meal or how you'll pay rent. But I'm fucking miserable and addicted to shit I shouldn't be addicted to because it gives me this false sense of excitement in a life that has none. Part of my problem is that I can't decide what I want to do. I'm really drawn to music and singing, but I've recently gotten really into movies. And I've actually signed up for an acting class at a local theatre and the first class is tomorrow night and I'm so fucking nervous and all day today my mind was thinking of reasons to back out. But I've finally reached a point in my life where I understand that if I don't do something that I'm obviously drawn to, I'm going to keep thinking about it incessantly until I just fucking do it. So, it's 2 AM and I've had a little bit too much drink and I'm nervous as fuck to go to this class tomorrow night. But I'm going to make myself suck it up and go, because I know deep down I really want to. I've just been in my comfort zone for so long now that it's so scary to think about getting out of it. But I know it will be good for me. And I have this gut feeling that I'm going to like it a lot more than I can even imagine

[conorjordan]

INFP here. As I get older I feel more and more like this isn't the kind of world I'm supposed to live in.

[imadirt]

I am an INFP and the reason I am proud of being one is because when I was younger I was pretty lonely. I cry a lot I have barely any friends and I barely know myself. But once I know I am an INFP I started researching about my personality and I started to know myself which is very exciting for me. I started to know my weakness’s and started to improve in mentally and I am pretty happy now. :)

[Skbrvrisjsbdvetjtrbejudb]

Wearing a Nirvana t-shirt while Kurt Cobain was an INFP making a vid about INFPs😲

[jamalraja]

Sometimes I wish I was a turtle with memory foam in my shell.

[JCNEOHK]

I'm an INFP and I am an Engineer, going through engineering training really helped me grow and become more logical, precise and plan oriented person, I don't chase dreams like before but now I'm more focused on solving real problems and achieve ideals through action, no dreams can be achieved through dreaming only

[kaitlyng]

THIS IS ME!!! I have big artistic dreams but I’m too shy to actually do anything about em. I take singing lessons and singing is my passion and I love it (and luckily I’ll be able to continue singing in college) but I got super pessimistic thinking I wasn’t good enough because I’m too introverted. Luckily I’ve gotten so much better, but the biggest part that I’ve had to work on with singing is confidence.
Edit: the whole loop think hits home. Playing video games, bad eating happens, pessimism and living a small life. But what’s funny is that I broke out of that loop without realizing I did. I still do some things like video games, but not to the extent. I do more stuff that’s different and new and I’m more extroverted (sort of).

[INFPinSA]

This is one of the most concise and comprehensive explanations of INFP cognitive functions I've ever seen. Loved the practical examples you gave also. There were some gaps in my own knowledge and understanding of the functions, and you've definitely filled the gaps with this video. You are gifted teacher. Subbed and looking forward to watching all your videos!

[kimonaNo]

For the first time I've understood the cognitive functions :) I have been stuck in a comfort zone Si mode for the past few years, thanks to depression and controlling family issues. Time to get my Fi-Ne back :)

[myahaymanko]

The way you demonstrate how to analyze is very organized and precise. The best video so far for INFP. Thanks, dear.

[lifestoryguy]

The interesting question to ask is what is a small life? I mean, as an INFP I've written over 100 books set up community groups and done a range of different things from running a marathon to parasailing in Tunisia, but I still prefer just to sit in the house and binge-watch Netflix and YouTube videos like this and passively investing money in the stock market to fund my scholarship fund that I want to set up to promote the values and principles of community education - that's me using Te in the service of my Fi, by the way. As far as i can understand the collective unconscious of our species, it seems you can only live a big life in the eyes of others if most people know your name whereas I think a big life is one where you pursue your own goals despite the pressure to conform to society's norms. To be authentic in a world that wants you to be inauthentic seems the bigger lifer to me.

[sanninlegends]

I never thought anyone could understand me this much. It's officially confirmed that I am an INFP. I shut away all my poetry and writing because I had to focus on studying. I was eventually even convinced that my writing was not up to the mark, so I thought it was better to stop. It's been two years, and thanks to you, I am gonna start again. Thank you

[EarthenCavy]

I’ve taken several MBTI tests, and I’m a bigtime INFP. I’m an artist for a living, I HAVE to be alone, my whole life is practically a daydream, and I’m fictosexual. I’m also a massive crybaby over pretty much everything. 🤣 I’ll talk your face off about stuff that interests me, but if you slight me, I ghost like a MF. 🤣 Soooo INFP.

[erhon]

Wow I have always thought about myself as an introverted extrovert, this explains why. I enjoy social things but I am definitely more comfortable in the introvert zone and tend to stay there. This analysis hit on so many things that I have been thinking about recently

[delanymcallister]

Girl holy crap I have never watched a video that made it so easy to comprehend infp. I kept thinking omg that makes sense, okay so does that… and that lol this video helped me realize I 100% am an INFP. Thank you!

[kristianmaiorca]

On the dreams So, I've found that as an INFP, when I give up on a dream, a new one usually comes and takes it place. Which, sometimes ends up in me looking like I quit on one, because my mind will keep circling back, and eventually I'm just like okay. I give up on this one, I go back to this one I guess? And that's the long story short on how I went from wanting my own salon as licensed hairstylist to deciding to go back to school for nursing in only a year. I will also say, the client interactions as a stylist killed me. I can not people that directly without being a perpetually too exhausted pigeon.

[megwings]

I’m dropping in a bit late to give my experience! I am an INFP and discovered the functions a few years ago. I learnt that I was stuck in a nasty Fi-Si loop - living at home, smoking a lot of 🍃 and drinking, with big artistic dreams but doing basically nothing besides a part time receptionist job … and I partly consciously, partly subconsciously put my Ne into gear .. I moved to a more exciting city into a small room in a shared house, I started a small business on Instagram and worked some low paying but enjoyable marketing jobs, and really started stepping out into the world. That was in 2020 too, during the pandemic and all! Three years later I do my small business (I make jewellery and other stuff!) and live in an apartment with my partner. So things have definitely turned around for me and I’m really proud. I do still battle with addiction and food addiction can be added to the list now … I still struggle with Fi-Si Loop in other words. Im glad I’ve come back to the world of MBTI especially this more Jungian function version. It’s opening my eyes up again to the importance of me using that beautiful Ne function of mine that got me to where I am in the first place!!

[CallmeOzymandias]

I find infps really intriguing. Although I'm not convinced they actually exist lol -istp