Today is going to be the first video in
a series of the differences between INFJs
and INFPs in the Myers-Briggs system.
Now before I start off, like everyone in
the typology community--if you want to
call it that--they seem to have... there are
different schools of thought on how to
define things, and there's a lot of
similarities between them all, but I just
want to point out that I have learned a
lot from Objective Personality, aka DaveSuperPowers
so that's where a lot of my
understanding comes from, because I find
it to be the most simple and
straightforward explanation of typology
I've ever seen in my 30 years of doing
this. Speaking of which, the podcast is
coming back as soon as... this
upcoming Friday--maybe Friday or Saturday--
and Dave Powers of Objective Personality--
yes, the DaveSuperPowers himself--is
going to be my guest. It's gonna be an
incredible episode, please tune in
whenever it happens next week. All right
so now let's get into the video: the
differences between INFJ and INFP. And
today I'm going to be focusing on the
differences that are caused by their
dominant functions and inferior
functions, because that's really the
biggest difference right there. Now don't
get worried if you don't
know much about the functions, I'm not
going to be super focused in on them and
using a bunch of obscure language, but
just to start out: INFJs have introverted
intuition as their main function; INFPs
have introverted feeling. They're very
different, and this causes different ...
this causes different
imbalances in their lives and this is
probably the easiest way to get a handle
on what you're looking at or who
you are: are you INFJ or INFP.
I'm gonna be focusing a lot on the
negative today, and I think honestly
that's what we should be doing. We should
be focusing on the problems that our
personality type cause, you know, what we
cause in our own life, and use that to
improve. Alright so first off, this is
gonna make a lot of people mad right
away, I think--is that to an INFJ life is
more about things
and concepts and to an INFP life is more
about people, it's about the self and
others. So this doesn't mean like INFJs
or these cold robots who, you know, just
see other robots walking around instead
of people, and it doesn't mean the INFPs
are freaks who like, you know, talk to
their seltzer water because they think
it's a person. It's just more of a... for
INFPs everything is a lot more
personal to them, and for INFJs
everything is a bit more impersonal. So
INFJ's are most imbalanced when it
comes to organizing the information that
they know, versus taking in new
information. So an INFJ typically is
going to want to limit the amount of new
information that they take in, and what
they do take in they're going to want to
shove through the same concepts over and
over again. Imagine like square peg and
a round hole: they're gonna try to force
the square peg through the round hole
because they don't want to think about
any new information. They don't want to
look for a round peg, they just want to
stick with what they know. Now INFPs are
imbalanced when it comes to themselves
versus everyone else. INFPs
typically know who they are and what
they're all about, what they like and
what they don't like, but then the
problem comes with how do they fit that
into what everyone else likes and
doesn't like. They tend to want to ignore
the spectrum of what everyone else
thinks. Now I'm already probably making
some people mad. Some INFJs who are like,
"No man, I like new information!" And INFPs are like
"No man, I always listen to what
everyone else thinks!" OK, yeah, sure. I'm
sure you do. It's not like you
can't do these things; but you don't
want to. And when you do them, you feel
really proud for doing it.
Stereotypically an INFP will be like,
"Yeah! I listened to someone else!"
Stereotypically an INFJ will be like "Yeah! I
took in some new information! This is
great! Hooray!" Now they're also gonna be
afraid of different things. And before I
get to that, why don't we take a quick
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Okay so INFJs and INFPs are like afraid of
different things in life. An INFJ,
because they are constantly limiting and
ignoring the new sensory information,
what's coming in, they fail to gather new
information, they're always afraid of it.
They're like, "I know I'm missing
something."
They're like the parents in Home Alone
sitting on the plane suddenly realizing
that they forgot Kevin. That's what
an INFJs life is like.
Meanwhile an INFP is gonna have big
fears about how are they gonna fit in
with everyone else. How are they going to
take their values and priorities and
make it work in the real world. How is
their identity, which they know really
well, gonna fit in with everyone else. So
in that same vein INFJs are gonna be
paranoid about "What am I not seeing? What
do I not know?" Because they know that
they've been ignoring things.
Meanwhile INFPs are gonna be
paranoid about "Why is everyone against
me?"
Because they've been ignoring what
everyone else thinks. Now when it comes
to problem-solving, when the rubber meets
the road, in a situation where it's like
maybe time is limited and things are
kind of stressful, they're gonna solve
problems in different ways. Because in
these situations you're gonna run back
to: what are you best at, what is your
dominant function? So an INFJ is always
gonna run back and say, "I don't care
about the facts, I don't care about the
information, I don't want any new
information, what do I just
know to be the overriding concept
in this situation?" And then they're gonna
try to solve the problem through that. An
INFP on the other hand is going to be
like, they're gonna run back to, "What do I
know about myself? What do I know about
what is good and bad? What do I like? And
let me just go based on that. I don't
care what anyone else is trying to tell
me, screw that, let's just go with my
values, my identity." So INFJs are gonna
cause problems in their lives by being
kind of narrow-minded and
over-controlling.
And I know, yeah, you're an INFJ and
you're open-minded and you're not
controlling. But when you create
problems for yourselves
that's why it's gonna happen.
INFPs are gonna cause problems in
their lives by being self-centered. And I
know you're an INFP and you're so
selfless, but when you cause problems
it's going to be because you ignored
everyone else. And look, like I said
everyone is going to have problems
revolving around these two things. An INFJ
is gonna have times where they
feel like it's really them against the
world, and how are they gonna fit in; but
overall they're gonna, you know, those
aren't gonna be the biggest problems.
They're gonna be like, "Yeah I can kind of
get through this, it's not a big deal." And
there are gonna be times when INFPs are
overcome with all the new facts they've
been ignoring.
But overall they'll be like, "Ah, you know
I can take in new facts, new concepts, not
a big deal. I'm able to handle that.
See like just now my battery ran out
on my camera because I was failing to
take in the sensory information of my
battery meter. That's why the camera
angle might have shifted a little bit
and I pulled down my base while I was,
you know, trying to recover from my... from
this wave of chaos that hit me.
"Wow the video was good until he
started just randomly playing bass, what
was he doing there?" You know and
generally what happens is, it's like when
you have these big huge problems in your
life, a lot of times an INFJ's mind
will go to, "Why does this keep happening
to me? Why is everything breaking
down around me? Why am I always surprised
by new crap? Why can't I, you know, why
can't I stay on top of all of this
information?" Whereas an INFP when bad
stuff happens they're gonna be like, "Why
is everyone doing this to me? Why have
people turned against me? Why can't
they, you know, accept me for who I am?"
Those are gonna be sort of the things
that go through your mind. Just
think, if you're trying to figure out if
you're INFJ or INFP, ask yourself when
bad stuff happens in your life what is
the thought, what is the question, that
runs through your mind when you say, "Why
is this happening to me?"
Is it because of the people? Do you think
it's the people's fault, everyone's
against you? Or do you think it's the
systems, the information, the things
in the world, are they against you?
The inanimate objects. That's that in a
nutshell. I'm sure some of you are gonna
comment saying, "I'm more confused!" There
will be more videos in the future going
over more differences between these two
types, and I hope that it can be
elucidating and illuminating and perhaps
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