What Everyone Gets WRONG About INFPs

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[kristofer]

I'm an INFP and I am actually an engineer in robotics which is suprising to a lot of people. I can use logic just fine, it is just that I don't revolve my entire life around logic. I base life around my feelings and emotions, logic is just a tool to me which I only use when it is useful to use it (more presicely when my Fi decides that it is useful to use logic).

[romancetag]

I am an INFP and I often drive my ENFP mam crazy by being too sceptical. I often ask, " where is the evidence?"
I want to believe many things that she just accepts as truths just because they sound very soothing, but my brain won't accept it, because there is no proof 😐

[linmonPIE]

“They tend to feel the pain of the world much more strongly than most” Ain’t that the truth! I can barely sleep anymore with everything going on, thinking not only about how things are now but where these events seem to be leading to 😣

(No, this is not an invitation to start an argument)

[shasings]

Nathan, i can safely say that there's no other channel which i love more than yours. Please never stop making these videos - A grateful INFP

[AlburyShaffer]

A very important difference between the INFJ and INFP, which you touched on here Nathan, is weather or not you have strong opinions and want to spread them (Jesus, Hitler, Plato) or you have strong opinions and dislike forcing those ideas on others(Kierkegaard, Keanu reeves, Tim Burton).

[fortune_roses]

INTJ with a close friend who is INFP - they're actually more intuitive than me sometimes when it comes to *reading people* and their deeper intentions

[yunkimin]

The main reason INFPs divulge from conceived conventions is due to their value system. It is indeed true that you cannot use mbti to simply describe the entirety of a person but in my opinion INFPs are the most out of the box due to the diversity of values put together by the Fi. Meaning that you might encounter an INFP who feels like an ESTJ solely because he values order above all else or an INFP that seems like an INTP because they regard logic and intelligence as part of their identity.

[beatricroft]

Thank you for this 😇 from an INFP 😊
Also, solving problems is a need we have. We are mediators, we want harmony and therefore, no problems 😄

[radishraven]

Great video, as usual! Thank you! You're probably the non-INFP with the greatest insight on INFPs that i know 😊

[andreas_rr]

As an INFP, who's studying electrical engineering and biomedical engineering, has always been good in maths and analytical subjects, is a really good problem solver (far superior to my older INTJ brother who's technically speaking better in maths) and knows every single detail of the world around me (and constantly gets surprised how people didn't notice a lot of things), this is definitely more than 100% accurate.

I might add, that Fi is quite special in one certain way, as it only values certain things and completely ignores others. That means, whenever Fi doesn't apply, it basically encourages the other functions to step up instead. And this again turns the Fi-Ne-Si-Te stack into a stack dominated by perceiving functions and with Te alone as decision-making.
So, either we tend to be in a quite pure Fi state, or in a highly observant and problem-solving Ne-Si-Te state.

[koukimonster]

Just an ENTJ here trying to better understand his infp daughter. Thx for these videos! I always appreciate your work

[Sly-Moose]

Finally someone who frikkin gets me! THANK YOU!
Oh, that wasn't sarcastic btw- That was genuine- 😅

[Drinfp]

As a 23 year old infp, I feel I have become better at the “staying present in the physical world” part, something people always associate infps to be bad at, and while it is true that I used to stay in my head in my teenage years mostly, now I know how to navigate myself in the real, physical world. I think with years, infps become more mature and become better at their weaknesses; atleast that’s what I’ve heard from most older infps.

Another common misconception being that we are procrastinators who can’t get anything done and can’t hold a regular job successfully- it makes me happy to see people in the comments with analytical jobs like engineers and me being a med student, I can definitely say from experience that we are capable of working hard towards things that mean something to us. It may not be the easiest thing, but we can get there!

[coffeefrog]

Regarding being lost in our own worlds, I half agree with you. I think INFPs tend to concern themselves with different aspects of life than others do, something more introspective, which provides them unique insights; however, this means they are indeed oblivious to many parts of life that others find obvious.

[regrr]

#2 hits home
I only so far had only one friend who noticed and asked me why I almost always don't finish my sentences or thoughts. She probably think's I got ADHD but truth is, I just don't think anyone cares to listen.

[Miss_Missing]

Thank You! I'm an infp, and people so often think that we're completely out of touch and fluttering helplessly around logical problems, we just feel strength in our decisions, we are driven by our passions it doesn't mean we're illogical and can't problem solve, it means we are sometimes incredibly driven, motivated, and unshakeable in what we believe. We want to work towards and fight for what we know in our hearts to be right. The world would be a kinder place if more people saw that as a strength rather than an impairment

[maniac]

Fi is used to determine if i want to use my Te to solve the issue when Ne failed and Si has no clue what to say :D

[abhinavprabhakar]

I love how this is a 2:30 video and not a 2:30 video stretched to 10 minutes

[alexandragatto]

Realizing the thunbnail is AI art of YOU as a fairy has me shooook 😅😲

[nataliafilson]

I thrive on problem solving and logic, but quite often only in my head, because of inability to voice or verbalize my thoughts and opinions