All right INFPs we gotta have a chat here I've been working on a theory I
think is gonna be really helpful for you I've shared it with one INFP she says
it's on track so I'm gonna share it with you and then in the comments,
you can either let me know that it's a great idea or absolutely destroy me
so starting with the premise that INFPs tend to hold back on things tend to hold back on let's say
sharing their work with the world for two reasons one is a perfectionism which would come from
more like a traditional fear of judgment fear of criticism so there's a perfectionism of I don't
want to be critiqued but there's a second thing there which is more almost like a romanticism
and idealism that you have an extremely high standard that maybe why you are
worried about being judged is your standard for the type of work you want to deliver is
way up there right so if you're going to write a novel you don't want to write some paper mill
book that you know you pump out in two weeks you want to write a great work and if you look
at famous INFPs a lot of them are writers and a lot have produced epic fiction quite literally
works that have been with us for a long time and will be with us for probably hundreds more years
so maybe this perfectionism romanticism idealism
maybe it's not a an issue a weakness a struggle but maybe it's actually one of your superpowers
and you just need to design your life around that more so I'lluse the writer example I was talking
to Tara about this who is a writer is there are many different types of writing jobs right
I've been a writer before I guess I'm still a writer now I'm writing a book this month but I've
been a writer in terms of working for other people and you can be hired for everything from writing a
one sentence motto for a lot of money to writing a 100, 1000, 2000 word article for five, ten, twenty
dollars. Now I never did those sorts of articles because I had the business part figured out
but there are writing jobs basically that are very quantity over quality and there
are writing jobs that are quality over quantity and if you are an INFP this is as my theory goes
is you need to embrace your perfectionism you need to embrace your high standards
but align it with either a job or with clients who expect the same and reward you for that work
right if you have this idealism where you only want to deliver great work
but you're working for a client who doesn't really care they just want a lot of things done
like give me 10 articles a week turn it out well yeah you're going to burn yourself out you're
going to feel terrible it's going to be a really depressing relationship but if you work with
someone who says hey I love your creativity and I want this to be the best of the best take as much
time as you need and work on this that's going to be a great client who will actually embrace
that part of your personality so what would happen if you were actually able to embrace this part of
your personality and go really deep and spend weeks or months or even years on one project
what do you think you'd be capable of producing what would your life look like if you could really
indulge your imagination and your passions and go all in on things and actually put your best work
out there well maybe that perfectionism would go away because you'd actually be
delivering something that in your eye was nearly perfect maybe you'll never be completely happy
but maybe part of what that feeling is is telling you that you are meant to do something great
and that you should work towards greater projects now what do you need to do to take this leap
well one thing is to perhaps make a change in your job or business if it if you have your own
business or you do freelance scene you probably want to work with people who are much more aligned
with your way of working and value what you do the other thing is you need to learn how to go
deep but you need to develop the ability to do deep work I had an INFP on my team for a while
and I realized this with him that being an INFP that being able to do deeper more creative work
should be aligned with his personality and it should allow him to contribute value to the
company and to have more satisfaction with his job but we had some struggles around focus and around
actually getting into deep work because so many people have trained themselves for shallow work
this always on sort of working with notifications going with checking email or messages all the time
doing very shallow level work not sinking your teeth into something and spending three
four five hours in a row uninterrupted and that's really what is required if you want to go deep
so in the next video I'm going to explain why it is so important to start going deeper with
your working style and share my advice for how to do it because I'm an ENFP I've definitely
got adhd and yet I've figured this out and spend a huge amount of my time in deep work
and it is so much more satisfying and the results speak for themselves so let's take a look at a few
well-known INFPs we'll start with george orwell because I was just re-reading 1984 famous author
for books such as 1984 and Animal Farm then we've got J. R. R. Tolkien who wrote of course The
Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings epic sagas which that let's be honest if they weren't turned into movies
most of us would never have finished then we have people like JK Rowling who of course wrote another
epic saga which is very new for us now but I'm sure will be read for decades or centuries to come
and even people like William Shakespeare what do all these famous INFPs have in common
we remember them for a select amount of work they went deep they concentrated their creative energy
and imagination on a small set of projects they use their perfectionism
to ensure that what they did was so great it would live on forever and have someone
like me sitting here on youtube talking about them even George RR Martin Game Of…
is there any... Homer is there any epic novel that isn't written by an INFP
Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka really I mean if you're an INFP and you're
not writing epic novels what are you doing this is your way to go definitely as an INFP
going deep embracing your perfectionism it is it's the way to go especially if you want
to end up on a famous INFPs page one day and if you are an ENFP I do actually have a free
training program I've created for my fellow ENFPs if you go to
DreamsAroundTheWorld.com/ENFPtraining or click the card that will pop up here you can get access
to that FREE training it has some of my best advice, things that I don't share anywhere else