ENFP vs INFJ - Am I An INFJ? - Why You're Actually An ENFP

ENFP vs INFJ - Am I An INFJ? - Why You're Actually An ENFP || You may be asking... am I an INFJ? You may have taken lot's of MBTI tests but you're still not quite sure. This was my experience. After digging into the jungian cognitive functions, attitudes and four sides of the mind theory, plus a video typing session, it turns out that I'm actually the ENFP personality type, but focused on my INFJ shadow.

Myers-Briggs tests (at least the free ones online) tend to have low accuracy rates. Once I learned about Dr. Beebe's four sides of the mind theory from CS Joseph, I realized that although I was using the INFJ cognitive functions, my ENFP functions were still stronger. I was only accessing my INFJ traits through the ENFP shadow. This was what I was told when I was typed via video, and my MBTI test results tell the same story.

In this video, I show you my test results from a number of MBTI cognitive functions tests and you'll see how I am using both ENFP and INFJ functions quite often, and I describe real life examples that are leading to this INFJ ENFP conflict. Hopefully, it can give you some clarity as to what your true type is.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Introduction
1:45 - MBTI tests are inaccurate
3:57 - Four sides of the mind theory & the ENFP
5:34 - The INFJ shadow of the ENFP
9:10 - My results from MBTI cognitive function tests
17:56 - INFJ traits and OCD
19:02 - Conclusion

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[kevinexperiences]

What is your type and how did you type yourself? Let me know below!

[nvargas]

I took the test several times and always get ENFP but I can strongly relate to my INFJ friends and when I watch INFJ videos, I can really relate. I think when I am my extraverted self, I come of as an ENFP but when I am introverted and focused, I can very much be an INFJ. It's really confusing actually. Lol.

Love your content btw. Subscribed! :)

[SupineReverie]

I really relate to you.

I’ve been having a big debate on what type I am for a long while. I originally got typed as an ENFP in high school using the official MBTI test. But as I grew up, that didn’t really fit me anymore. Once I went into college, and especially when I went into the work arena, I changed a lot and started becoming more of an “INFJ”. I kept getting typed as that over and over again. But it didn’t always fit 100%.

But then I realized I haven’t been in a healthy place in a long time. I’ve kinda just been surviving, doing what needs to be done and that’s put me in a shadow state for a long time. When I found out that the INFJ functions were the shadow functions of ENFP, it just clicked. I realized that that’s who I’ve become. I’m not in a carefree, happy, open state. I’ve been in survival mode for a while and it’s made me use my shadow functions much more. So much that I actually thought I was an INFJ.

It becomes clear I’m an ENFP when I have moments of being “in my element”. When I feel free to create and explore. More open. In those moments it’s just like “Oh. Right. Duh. Of course I’m an ENFP.” It’s like a breath of fresh air.

In my ENFP state I feel really healthy, safe and curious.

In my INFJ state I feel really off-kilter, uncertain and cautious. And closed off. But the shadow functions help stay my afloat. Or, I think they do.

[Chuck_Nrris]

I am an INFJ and stumbled accross this. I was certain my GF also was an INFJ but I made her take the test and she is an ENFP. But after researching a little, it all makes sense.

[aquarius]

THIS WAS ME TOO. I thought I was an INFJ, always tested as INFP or INFJ, and on cognitive Functions tests I got highest Ni and Fi. I was very confused! I got professionally typed as ENFP and it finally made sense - a shadow focused ENFP. I'm a 4w5 SP/SX on the Enneagram. I'm glad I'm not the only one!! Most of the ENFPs I know are 7s and very extroverted. I can't relate to that at all.

[Veegzee]

This actually just confirmed that I'm an INFJ with ENFP shadow.

[laniakeas]

Dude. It's crazy.
You just now gave me that greatest insight

I used to be INFJ.
Just about 10-14 years ago.
I was raised by psychopathic sadistic mother where I was in a constant state of dissociation since very early childhood. I was almost at war all the time. Fear and anxiety were my closest friends. So I just freezed and stopped myself from any kind of self reflection.

Then I manage to escaped at the age of 20 y o
And after that even worse hell started. I connected to my unconscious. My 20 years of dissociation passed.
There was a lot of pain to the point I wanted to end this all. The realisation my parent was jealous of my achievements, body and appearance and wanted me dead stroke me hard.

10 years passed. I went through serious psychotherapy and self healing. And currently I'm now more concentrated on myself and my achievements. Feels like I even became more egoistic.
The urge to help others to heal, high levels of empathy and intuition are still there. The thing is I want myself to also succeed in life and now it's my primary goal. Classical test now shows that I'm ENFP.

Can it be that I temporarily switched to my ENFP unconscious shadow state?

Because It's been 3 years I'm feeling like I've connected to something that was sleeping in me for a long long time.
When It happened I had a revenge on my abusive mother for a first time in my life I started to speak out about her abuse and her attempts to kill me several times providing video documentation of her abuse.
She had a very serious narcissistic trauma because of that shame she felt and ended her life instead never asking for forgiveness.
But I never felt sorry for her after that.
It felt for me like a new beginning. And I still feel that way.

After her death I only grew stronger as a person.

I have to research for further info now.
O_o"

Thank you a lot. You can't imagine how useful this is for me.
I guess I'm now literally living in shadow.

[cooper]

I continually tested as INFJ throughout high school and some of college. After two years of college, I repeatedly test as an ENFP :)

[M.Moadeli]

Think I may be an enfp in my shadow too. I identify with both enfp and infj, but mainly enfp. And the functions are definitely that of an enfp.

[redsonya]

I love your channel. Found it while searching similar tests results to understand the test results.
I took these tests over the years. :
I got INFP once,
INFJ once, and
ENFP twice recently
I am A ' Assertive on all results and also ambivert.
I after years of tests, I think I have learned alot about the tests, types, functions, introverted, extroverted, and ambiverts, met people of various types, groups of various types. I finally figured out I am ENFP- A & Ambivert.
Great video! Thanks for your help . 🎉🎉🎉

[ladyfoxwf]

People keep typing me as INFJ (over online) and I'm like DUDE NO! I'm ENFP. CS Joseph typed me INFJ because I disagreed about some of the things he said about ENFP ugh *rolls eyes* he did this to everyone who disagreed with him.

[Tybee_]

I entered the world of Myers Briggs a little over a year ago. Like almost everyone, I got to know the MBTI through the official test (and only after delving into the subject did I understand that it doesn't take cognitive functions into account). When reading all that about my INFJ result, I cried. I felt understood, as if someone had entered my soul. Those simple words meant a lot to me, and the MBTI theory came into my life. This gave me a world full of meanings and essences to understand more deeply everyone around me. It was beautiful, it's just beautiful. Over time, I started to get a little more anxious about myself. I have a very strong conviction in knowing myself better and being my true self, and before it was a lot to better please others, but now I feel it is more for a truth and essence. I like confirmations about myself so I feel safe, I like to identify with characters, and I don't like it when people jump to wrong conclusions about who I am, I'm a little afraid of other people's opinions. Turns out I started to get a little scared if I was just being myself. "Am I just being who I want to be?" I began to question myself if I pretended to be someone calm, a real problem of identity and insufficiency. But the truth is that with others I seem to have a prevalent Ne, and my Fi is also high, as I constantly try to be in an inner harmony. This couldn't be ignored, so I started immersing myself more in the world of ENFP's, to see if I could be getting confused. The problem is that the ENFP's are extremely stereotyped, and so I was more confused. I have a strong Fe, a strong desire to focus on other people's feelings; I like to know about your visions, love; I understand about people, and little about myself, but that was never a problem for me! As long as I make my friends happy, it's okay. I say this in a light way. And my Ti was always very developed during my life, in fact, from my "consciousness trajectory" in my 13 years, my Ni started to show up, and I felt so good. One thing that really impressed me was having a room to myself. My grandfather died when I was 12, so I moved in with my grandmother to keep her company. I stopped sharing a room with my sister and started having time alone, in my own room and space. If it was lonely, awkward and troubled? On the contrary, it was... liberating. A calm feeling, everything was silent while everything was noisy but in a harmonious sound. I was less stressed. I started to cry a lot with happiness. I started to organize things my way, to plan, to imagine more. As if everything before was blocked and capped by something I wasn't. I've always been around many, I never really realized my own perspective because it was more focused on what others expressed; and hence I call this passage "the trajectory of consciousness", where I have ceased to be a little bit unconscious. I went through an extreme change, and my best friend reported that I was "weird" but in a good way, he said. Said I was calmer, more authentic. I cried at what I heard, because I felt it too. I think before I was 13 I lived more in a shadow of ENFP. Then I took the test and gave INFJ. A little while ago I was always a little uncomfortable with this, thinking I was faking it, because I didn't let go of how I showed myself to be. Even talking about it makes me think I'm trying to show myself, or that I'm using a false image of myself. Today, after some slight internal conflicts, I feel like I'm an INFJ. Sometimes I redo the official test to observe the changes that change, because anyone doing it can get different results every time. First time I did: INFJ (while I was probably in an ENFP superego), later: ENFJ, today: ENFP (while I'm infj). This is so hilarious! Well, thanks for your video!:)

[xarmchia]

Im an Enfp but I got scared here because of how relatable an INFJ description video seemed.
Think it’s different because Fi Parent makes me much more individualistic and self-focused despite my desire to know what people want though.

[yosh]

I think am an ENFP in the same boat as you, a shadow-focused one. Usually when I take those tests I get ENFP, INFJ, INFP or INTJ (but not ENFJ...), the latter I suspect due to my overly developed Te. I think only ENFP & INFJ make the most sense to me after having read the cognitive functions for myself as well as their places within the function stack. I'm also quite new to this so I'm not really any kind of expert, but I'll get there. I think my Ni appears the most when I'm writing a story personally. I thoroughly analyze why I'm attracted to a particular theme or to a particular vision in my head then I boil it down to an abstraction if that makes sense, then I let myself write. Although I think I use Ne a lot more for essays.

Thank you for making this video, I've been thinking a lot about this conundrum. This was helpful in achieving a better understanding of it for me. I hope you are in a better place now than you were here.

[phillipmckinnon]

Took the MBTI at work. Came up INFJ. Didnt even know what it meant until I read the breakdown. It was like reading my biography.

[Livelongwforce]

Ive been told for over 20 years, by multiple test (even professional ones) that I am an INFJ. Still, it has never sat 100% with me. A few years ago, in my 40's, I got my diagnosis of ADHD which has changed my life. Meds have helped immensely! Just took a test today and got a ENTP-A. So binging videos about it ever since. I'm a bit more introverted and materialistic than I think the typical ENTP, so more confused than ever, though this type has matched 100 with how I live everyday and see the world

[kobugikobugi]

In every test i take i always end up with INFJ but someday i took fingerprints test and then my psychologist said that I'm ENFP. I shocked because, why am i an extrovert? even since my childhood I really can't talk to people.
I asked my psychologist why am i extrovert, and she said that even my first impression that she saw was I'm an extrovert.. (when i met her the first time i wasn't that open)

[charliepark]

Damn bruh. I relate so much. Aight so, 2 years ago during the pandemic and quarantine, I was such a depressed bag of potato who all she does is eat and gained 10 pounds. I was miserable like I was not acting like myself. Because at the office, I was the clown and the joke. Someone even told me "You're so extroverted. Even I can't keep up to that energy"

Not until 2020, I was depressed as frick. And discovered the MBTI test. I took the free test, and I came out INFJ-T

I was like "Man. I'm such a fraud. I'M NOT AN EXTROVERT." And then researched even more bout INFJ (especially the bad side of INFJ) I came to the conclusion "I'm the extroverted kind of INFJ."

But as I got better INFJ never fit me anymore. I was like "I'm not INFJ." Then developed this issue just yesterday where I panicked alot and re-took the test (the free one) It said ENFP-A. I read the description and I was like "Damn. THIS IS ME-"

But still not trusting it so I came across your vid. THANKS DUDE. VERY MUCH 😭❤👌 This was well explained

[andrewfletcher_music]

Cool video! Fellow ENFP here, but I always test as INFP.

I gained a lot of clarity from watching Objective Personality's YouTube channel, where they break down a lot of the functions and some temperament stuff. I'm definitely Ne-dominant, not Fi. One thing that is characteristic of that is to always search for more information and never quite be satisfied with what data you're being given. Based on the lengths that you've gone to figure this out, I would say you're almost certainly Ne-dom as well. And it also fits you're talking style and the way that you've broken this down. It's harder for me to tell what your second function is in the context of a public video (which will be more biased toward extroverted than introverted functions), but you seem like an ENFP to me!

I don't really trust functions tests, as there is so much overlap between them and it is near-impossible to tell which function you're actually using to approach any given situation. There are some consistent error patterns there too, for example, Fi-using intuitive types almost always test very high on Fe. I think the most reliable way to type yourself is to really deeply understand the functions and to start seeing where your blind-spots are

[klp]

What does it mean if I’m an ENFP who always tests as INFP?