INFJ - INTJ|ENFJ - MBTI Type Siblings and Why They Matter

In this video I discuss why I believe it is important to value the dominant function above the auxiliary when determining the attributes and traits of a type.
Interested in supporting me as a content creator?

[AsuraPsych]

So let me know, what's your type and what type (other than your own) do you feel is the most like you? Which type is the least like you?
Why?

[israelmarillier]

You're extremely intelligent dude

[monpetitchouxpastry]

One of my best friends was an INTJ. For the longest time I thought he was an INFJ, he seemed just like me. He was very open with his emotions with me, he wasn’t necessarily cold. Calculated, yes, but not cold.

[thatguybutitsactuallyagirl]

Out of all MBTI Youtubers, you're the most educated one on the subject.

[cathyhart]

ENFJ here. Interesting video, but not entirely sure I agree. I can relate and understand ESFJ's on a certain level. I share the desire for harmony and the tenancy to people please to our own detriment. However, with INFJ's I can have conversations that resonate on a deeper level and I can sense we share core ways of looking at the world. I guess I would say that outwardly, I look/act like an ESFJ, but inwardly I relate to an INFJ. So interesting to ponder.

[lisaia]

INTJ married to an INFJ and living with an ENTJ.
I find myself most like my hubs outwardly while our inner framework is quite different, and find that me and the entj clash hard and often probably due to the Ni vs Te whereas their focus is entirely outwards approach and quick, my inner focus and perceiving dominance makes me take a much slower approach to life do my growth is mostly internal and unnoticed by this entj whose growth has been quite outwardly noticeable due to his Te judging approach.

[Dani-joyr]

Hmmmm🧐🧐🧐As an ENFJ who has the closest friends ESFJ, i can tell that in my case I am just about twin of INFJ as I relate more to them in every way. I am like extroverted version of them😳😅😂🤣So can’t totally agree here, but got the point though 😁

[pablogh]

INTJ here
Very interesting video, I liked it.

What are INTJ's favorite weathers?
I personally love stormy days

[evelyn]

I wish you post more :( Esp INTJ contents.. You really are like a mirror to help us self reflect

[Irene]

Great video as always Asura 😊! U really deserve way more views!!!

[infinitysconcinnity]

Excellent video, IMO! I agree that types with the same dominant function should be the closest sibling!

I also tend to think that the types with the same ‘introverted perception’ preference (like the introverted intuitive doms, the INFJ and INTJ, and the introverted sensing doms, the ISFJ and ISTJ) should be considered as very close cousins. I find that Ni and Si in their similar introverted perception will end up viewing their lives in a very similar philosophical approach. (This can also be extended to the other three sets: Extroverted perception, Extroverted judging, and Introverted judging).

It may even be slightly debatable as to whether a common introverted perception might even trump the I/E differentiation in the other sibling (INFJ/ENFJ). This isn’t as clear to me, but I still think that the comparison of these two is still worthwhile (about whether a common introverted perceiving dom function might be even higher than the I/E difference). I would even bet that Carl Jung would claim that the introverted perceivers might be more important than the I/E.

No matter what, your video makes a ton of sense and I very much see and agree with your line of reasoning here!

[XZXZ]

Oh wow I had to watch this one, my sister is an INFJ and I am an INTJ. My brother is an INFP and I’m 99% sure my dad is an INTJ.

[chrisadam]

I like all the improvements you brought, the intro, the background, ... :)

I wanted to let you know that we hear some changes between the different mics you use. However, it's not really annoying. ;)

[petitpoissonp]

Very interesting topic. I can’t help but evaluating my relationship and its relation based on types that I feel the “click” quite quickly. I was typed by tests and others as an INTJ for many years until recently that I went through certain personal development stage (lately people typed me as an INFJ). I recently found out that I might repressed Fe for a long time during my childhood upbringing. With that realization, i started to question my true type whether it is INTJ or INFJ. I am quite certain that I fall into INXJ type though. I started to evaluate friendships that I have had considering types. I tend to enjoy some aspects of having an INTJ and INFJ as a friend. Both types stimulates me greatly. However, I tend to clash with them in particular area and the friendship does not progress the way it should be considering how intense the chemistry was established in the beginning. For example; an INTJ and I would enjoy the debate and we never feel offended by having shared a different perspective on the same subject, but we would disagree so much on how we view on how people operate and how they feel about things. An INTJ would feel frustrated that I put other people’s feeling into the consideration more than I should and why do I care so much that people need to feel good too. They feel that i become irrational in my thinking process. With an INFJ, we have no problem conversing about feelings of others, talking about spiritual and personal development that is very people oriented.Talking about science, world politics and philosophy is very fun, having discussions about how the third person would view and feel things if we were in their shoes. However, we tend to clash on having different opinion regarding having proposed new information that might cause cognitive dissonance to an INFJ. He or she would feel that I had shared an information that bursts their bubbles. An INFJ would stepped back from the friendship (it started on very intense and progress with frequent meet up which is rare for an Ni dom) and shut the door on me for a while. It would take them months or even years to reach out to me again (most of the time I let the friendship fall away until we need to be in touch again) with an ENFJ, it is much easier to repair the friendship when we had conflicts. They tend to talked it over as soon as they started to realize that there is an unsettling feelings/thoughts that do not sit well between us. I guess i am a helpless INXJ in limbo in friendship and finding my true type in order to fit in and build the community that supports me :)

[RavancheII]

I am best friends with an INTJ, and I am an INFJ. I can relate to her better than anyone I've ever met. I have some INTJ tendencies with the more logical thinking, but my primary tendencies are feeling.

[SheenaHolly]

I'm an INFJ. I appreciate the minds of INTJ, especially the ones who research and author book genres that I am interested in. I don't think I would like them as a close friend to confide in. Don't know one IRL however.
ENFJ I find to be more personally appealing, HOWEVER they seem to have a lack of LOGIC which I sometimes find incomprehensible and upsetting.
Thanks for the video!

[johnsonstringperform]

I appreciate your content and the organized way you present topics. I am an INFJ but have borderline preference in the last two positions. So I can use those opposing actions as needed to achieve solutions. (INTJ & INFP and if needed INTP). My process is to sense a bigger connection btwn ideas then dig out the details and reorder them, change direction and create a new process that meets a need. I just have to be careful to finish in my native J so I don’t get lost in the sea of possibilities or feelings. Could you do a video on INFJ because we have a problem percieving and helping ourselves. Another point of view is helpful.

[JourneyLT]

Gotta disagree on this one. I'm an INTJ and yes, I share a dominant function with an INFJ, but I have no ability whatsoever with the Fe function, except in dark manipulative periods due to it being my 7th (Trickster) function. I'd say that the INTJ is most similar to the ENTJ because its functions are the same. I can connect to them on both the Perceiving and Judging axis. My dominant Ni can connect with their Secondary Ni, and their Dominant Te can connect with my Secondary Te. Sure, I can connect to the INFJ better on the Perceiving axis, due to shared Dominant Ni. Okay. But what about the judging axis? I have to connect with their Secondary Fe through my Trickster Fe? That isn't going to work as well.
I'm much more with Michael Pierce on this one where the most similar types are those with the same axes. The four types which have the functions Se, Ni, Te, and Fi in their core stack are more similar to each other than any other type. That's right, I'm more similar to the ESFP than an INFJ, because the ESFP is my Aspirational type through the Inferior function.

[guernica]

Technically the types with "the opposite energy of introversion and extroversion" would be the ones that place the cognitive functions in the same position, but with the opposite attitudes, right? For instance, the "Extraverted" version of the INFJ (Ni Fe Ti Se) wouldn't be the ENFJ (Fe Ni Se Ti), but the ENFP (Ne Fi Te Si)

[mohammadashhad]

I'm an intj my sister is infj
This is correct