As an INFP, I've always felt oddly balanced between being an extremely abstract, big-picture thinker and extremely detail-oriented at the same time. I think this is something with obvious benefits for artistic and creative endeavors, where we will often work very carefully to get every little detail right in service of perfectly bringing to life the big picture we're trying to create.
"INFPs and INTPs are not totally useless." Thanks Frank, I feel so validated now! 😃 I'd love to see a video on what the 16 personalities need, to feel they're winning at life.
I'm an INFJ and a biologist, and this video really got to me. When I was studying for my Master's degree, I could always see the patterns in how things fit together . . . but if someone asked for specific interactions, my mind would go blank. (It often goes blank in times like that when asked for a specific example that demonstrates an overall picture that I understand very well!)
Reminder me of An Ni story Ihad. When we were researching the Ideal growth conditions for bell pepper, we quickly found out this pepper was taken from the mexican plateau, since it grew around Mexico city. So my teacher (ESTJ) basically dismissed the Idea right away as speculation. So during the project, we found the temperature and humidity were more or less the same as on the Mexican plateau. Now, bell peppers ideally grow with between 20 and 22 hours of sunlight per day which is not the case in the Mexican plateau, but taking the natural conditions as a starting point seems to schorten the searching process although does make one vulnerable to confirmation bias. As for moleculair pathways, those just give me acute dyslexia.
As an Infj sometimes I just know things, but I have the hardest time explaining or giving examples on it. Kind of like how intjs are very good at micro expressions? But infjs do it with observation. And then put things together. If that makes sense. No pun intended.
Same, and also finishing my Master's in Bio. I like connecting dots, even understanding how different topics fit together (evolution and cognition for ex.) but I need some time to think about an actual, concrete example. Like an interaction between 2 species. But with time I can find one to illustrate. Knowing this is a weak spot, I've since then tried to come up with big examples to illustrate all the concepts that I've learned.
As an INFP who doesn’t have the best self esteem, it was nice to hear that I’m the happy medium of having one foot in wonderland, and the other in reality. That divide makes itself known in so many aspects of my life and the way I express myself artistically, and has for as long as I can remember. And it is so clearly expressed to other people that I have, by more than one person, been described as “Daria if she had a much more animated/dynamic way of speaking” which I find hilarious every time I think about it. But yeah, this has honestly been one of the most positive descriptions or things that I’ve heard about being an INFP that didn’t feel like it had strings attached to something negative. So thanks 😅
Infp with username so long i can't read it all is 10 out of 10, also fr fi users in general get talked about with a weird more negative kinda undertone than when talking about most types -isfp
You know I'm glad that Frank James made a video like this because being an infj I really enjoying understanding other people thought and feeling process. It helps the ride go so much smoother for both parties.
(INTJ) As I get older, I think my sensing abilities have gotten more balanced. Random things that felt so chaotic and devastating to my plans when I was younger are now much more bearable most of the time. I’ve learned how to be more flexible, and it’s brought a lot of peace. It’s just not a skill that came overnight. And honestly I think having people in my life who are better with their sensory functions helped me to learn how they do it, and use those observations for my own life. However I can’t say I never get thrown totally off anymore. Occasionally it still happens. Just a lot less than it used to.
I agree. While planning for the future is inevitable for us, what I've learned by being flexible is to create contingency plans just in case, and a part of those contingencies is a room to be alert and make spontaneous plans in case unexpected things happen. When chaos ensues, it can get pretty stressful, but I do this to maintain my cool and not allow panic to overtake my decision-making skills. The last thing I want out of this is feeling like I made needless mistakes along the way.
@@BuizelCream That's what I do. I have a plan and expect problems and create back-up plans and allowed myself to plan on the fly if none of those worked. That's how I handle chaos.
ENFP mom here who really gets a kick out of my INFP daughter & INTP son...they hang out & create & learn together. Once I learned their types, I realized that a lot of our joy of being together is largely because of our collective Ne.
As an infj I have noticed that it's often not reality that gets me into trouble, but not listening to my own intuition. My predictive skills are actually amazing, but I don't always rely on them. I do in my head, but not in my actions. Also, it's hard if you know things about other people, you can't actually manipulate them into doing what you feel is best for them. I mean, you can but that's not healthy. But I am indeed always scared of the chaos and uncertainty of things crashing down around me.
Can relate to that a lot. I'm an Infp but I used to be an Infj and I found a lot of the times I assumed people would react a certain way about what I said. Like a bad way, usually. But more often than not that wasn't true. I've found that thru that Ive trusted my intuition more. Because if I don't I make decisions on a whim that just get me hurt in the end. I think us Infj-p types need to trust ourselves more. We know what we need, it's best not to make exceptions. But at the same time- it's those experience that teach us that our intuition was right all along. Sometimes we need the extra nudge. Right now I actually am going through a breakup and I knew from the beginning there was chemistry but I wasn't completely romantically interested. But I gave it a shot anyway. And it left me with heartbreak over him not being the one. Now I'm not sure if I'll try again with him but it goes to show I knew intuitively what I was doing was a bad idea, but I ignored it out of boredom and lonelyness. Sometimes you gotta watch out- we can manipulate ourselves into believing something is right for us to easily if we lack security within ourselves.
@@aurora_boketto7746 That is so true. We really need to work on that inner security that we already know what is right for us. When you have a family, it's also hard to navigate how you go about things you know will turn out bad, but the others don't see it. Do you let it happen,or do you go all-in trying to convince them? So hard!
@@pinkpeonygirl right! It can be so difficult seeing three steps ahead. I think maybe the best thing to do is nudge them, otherwise we'll go crazy trying to help them. It takes acceptance and release. I'm still working on that one 😭🤣 Can I ask your advice on relationships that involve that constant push and pull?
@@pinkpeonygirl No worries any knowledge is helpful~ From your experience with relationships how did you go abt dealing with extremely stubborn ppl? 🤔 I feel like I deal with these types a lottt and it makes me wonder if I'm just attracting the wrong ppl tbh
As an old INFP (64) I can testify absolutely to the power of exploiting the inferior functions. It is counter-instinctive at first (in youth) but one hopefully learns in time to devote the introverted sensing and, especially, the extroverted thinking intensely to the realization of the visions your Fi and Ne are constantly bringing you--no, not to all of them but to the ones that have a real chance at realization. An INFP who has pumped his/her Te up to the maximum is a force to be reckoned with.
hey frank! i have some ideas for future videos: 16 personalities in their wedding 16 personalities interacting with their extroverted type for example, INTJ interacting with ENTJ 16 personalities interacting with their ideal type, for example, ISTP interacting with ESTJ or ENTJ 16 personalities as superheroes and super villains, like the hero is one type and the villain is its opposite type. for example ESTP is the villain so INFJ would be the hero 16 personalities watching anime 16 personalities playing minecraft 16 personalities interacting with each other on discord 16 personalities as spies idk how good or bad these are, but they sound like they'll be fun to watch
I know bunches of people have given you video ideas lately. Here’s some more: 1. 16 Personalities (16P) Traveling to Another Dimension 2. 16P Interacting with Their Shadow Type (INFJ & ENFP, for example) 3. 16P in the Medieval Era 4. 16P Learning They’re Going to Become a Dad 5. 16P Buying a Car 6. Eulogy That 16P Would Get 7. 16P Having to Do Their Least Favorite Thing 8. 16P Joining an Adult Recreational Sports Team 9. 16P Being Interviewed on a Talk Show 10. 16P Confessing Their Sins to a Catholic Priest 11. 16P Losing a Bet
As an INFP that lines up perfectly, it's like Dr. Strange looking through different outcomes of a situation but still being able to come back to reality
As an INTJ I've already prepared myself to a life living as a blind, in a wheelchair, in a war or any other style of life which doesn't even have any real life foundation. Take that, reality!
as an INFJ your comment about no matter how hard we try reality will always hit us throughout life was quite unsettling. anyways im going to ignore that comment and go back to the book i am reading :)
Personally, I (an INTP) am glad to have intuition (Ne) as my auxiliary fuction. I get the impression that it is very overwhelming as a dominant function. My daughter is an ENFP, so I see that in action. She has a very manic energy, and is always firing off in all directions. She has a hard time directing her energy , and she runs into trouble when it comes to completing assignments for school. I had a lot of the same issues growing up, but with her, they are turned up to eleven.
It's incredible how some change in functions can alter our whole behavior and perception of the world. As an INFP I'm constantly struggling with day to day life outside work, and even at work I stumbled a little from time to time.
@@jimclayson I ride some very choppy alpha to delta waves in my "sleep" if you can call it that. I'm pretty much an ESTP in my dreams and wake up exhausted. Wouldn't say I've done anything unfathomable outside sleep though...
@@Chigger I agree. I'm an ENFP and it's very tiring, especially when you don't know how to handle the creativeness that comes with it. It was worse during my lowest times where it causes me to overthink. It took a lot of spirituality work, honestly. But I have trained my introverted feeling in the recent years. I only do things that have hold high value to me. Because that is how Enfps thrive.
As an INTJ, yes I'm highly intuitive, but I can't be intuitive if I don't have real data points to connect. I was providing information to a museum on video games and I keep getting all kinds of praise for it, and I'm guessing the intuition is why because I tell them about games and the history of each game and I recontextualize it in a variety of ways (history of technology, corporate history, history of trends, history of representation, personal history etc) depending on what topic I come up with to try to explain the information, and I wonder if that's what they're really intrigued by? I was thinking about this recently, and for me all the data points are like attachment points in a cat's cradle, but I can reconfigure the cradle in all kinds of different ways by adding or removing fingers.
Personally as an Intj.Intuitive and logic needs to be balanced. I mean most of my plans are using intuitive (NI) and then to make it happen i will use (TE). We are (Intj) different from Istj who will always use the details.
Perfect as usual. As an INFJ male the best thing I did in my 30’s was put myself in S-type situations and force myself to be in the moment - helps me prepare for the future so much more!!
This video had me thinking that a video addressing the four functions that are NOT in a person's stack would be interesting. We talk about this fourth function like it's the worst of us, but it's still getting more play then the other four that aren't in our stack at all, no? I would love more info on how that all works out!
Se/Ni is imaginative in the physical realm. It's very good at spatial imagining. If I'm designing something I see it in my head before I build it. In sports, you see the play. When golfing, I see the flight of the ball before I hit it.
Frank James! I hope you're doing well! May I ask for something?can you pls make more videos about the cognitive functions?I love the way you explain things easily yet you make me understand more about mbti,and since you're probably the most followed mbti youtuber in the platform I think ppl need to know more about the cognitive functions to go further more deep into mbti,a specific video for every cognitive function would be amazing since you really seem to know alot about these topics and the way you give information is amazing,thank you!
he has specific videos abt infjs in particular and 2-3 abt infps. He has also focused on certain aspects of some MBTI types. But ya wht u r saying is a great idea! Even i wanted more cognitive functions' videos from him!
Yeah we know the cognitive functions but doesn't really know how they work and when we use it.... It would be great if he explains it with some examples!!
that’s what i was just thinking, i want to know the difference between Ne and Ni, the difference between Fi and Fe and etc. I’m not very fluent in english so i might’ve missed a lot of information when talking about these functions, i did read a few comments in his video where he was explaining the cognitive functions however, i still find it difficult to understand :// i really wanna learn about mbti to make sure i have the correct type (i know my type is already accurate enough to name myself an infp but thinking about how i still dont know the difference between Ni and Ne bla bla bla bothers me lol :,) )
@@jdope893 if you want to learn, check out videos by INFJinxed on RUclips. She's very thorough with functions but explains them in brief. She also compares types... I've been binging her content lately and it's very insightful. I hope Frank explore cognitive functions too cz he does it in fun ways...
9:14 The big realisation moment for me! I used to think how everything is so connected and i don't like people repeating things yet I'm doing the same- talking about ONE same thing in MANY ways, many perspectives, all coexisting, all related (not like a sequence but a spider web because i like to further go in details like space and time) and revolving around one same core which others don't "get".
As an ENTP I find Ne Dom is great but a freaking pain when I'm trying to work on schoolwork or actually put some of my ideas (for writing) on paper. My parents thought I may have had ADHD as a kid but I've learned that it's likely just the fact that I'm an Ne Dom. Edit: I'm actually not an Ne Dom at all- I don't even have Ne. I'm more likely high Se.
@@xF3ARL3SSx43VR I've been tested but I'm never close enough to be diagnosed. It's been interesting. You are correct that many Ne doms have ADHD or are diagnosed with it. Part of the issue is the interpretation of information. It's hard to figure out how we should do so with this correlation. Yk?
My mother (infj) is incredibly good at figuring people out from almost no knowledge about them (although I often tell her to not jump to conclusions even though she may be right (she often is, it's frustrating. We get the 'I told you so' regularly), she may also be wrong). My intuition is more about how a situation will end, but I don't listen to it most of the time because I can't have proof/can't prove it and it's therefore unreliable (thanks aux Te). Until I realise I was right. Damn me. 'I knew it' is something I often say (in frustration) My mother does have a complex system of knowledge. She blurts things out at random most of the time until I ask her to develop her point and bam! it's all connected and makes sense. I do the same, but with academic knowledge and my imagination (of the two, I'm the most imaginative/creative. I'm the one coaching mum to explore her artistic side 😃 Take that, 16p stereotypes!) edit: I'm intj btw
@@josephineemarch You're welcome! The romanticisation of intuitive dom types tends to forget that Ne or Ni doms can be incredibly off the mark. My mother and I should write an anthology of all the stupid stuff we've said (our perception of reality is, uhm, something. We also bump in chairs each five minutes)
ENFP here and I agree with this video. It can be so hard for me to focus my energy. I have so many ideas but only few of them come to the real world. I remember that in high school we had a class activity where others had to describe you with an emoji and I got many aliens😂 because for other people, ENFPs can seem a little bit crazy. And to be honest, we can seem a little bit crazy to ourselves too. When we are trying to put things in order in our minds it can be so hard and exhausting!
Totally once a professeur said I was a precocious child because I had so many too many ideas but I couldn’t organise them and I had the urge to tell them all, talking very fast so the professor could not interrupt me. And sometimes so much things are going through my head that it disconnect me with real life and I end up keeping my thought for myself. So I relate the weird part too
About 2:52 I believe Djokovic is an ESFP and he often talks about how he imagines himself as holding the trophy or imagining the crowd cheering his name instead of the opponent's which helps him to overcome difficult situations. Those who want to see this in action go watch the last few games of the Wimbledon final vs Federer in 2019. Also, he's very big on spirituality, knowing yourself, psychology and similar things. So I wonder if he's aware of the cognitive functions and has deliberately "trained" his intuition to help him out in matches.
INTP, all things considered, I wouldn't have any other way. Phasing out of reality in the middle of work, yup. Skipping family gathering, blowing off dates, yup. And I'd do it all over. Getting lost in a book, following the zeitgeist, finding another book, that ability alone makes it all worth it.
Same i like having Ne-si in the middle (both intuition & sensing in the middle so we get the best of both worlds yk) but being honest sometimes i tend to stay in my tert Si comfort zone a lil bit too much, that's when it creates problems and- the dreaded looping.
At this stage of the game, I wholeheartedly trust my intuition as much as I trust my senses. It is, after all, a sixth sense. But it definitely took a certain amount of experience to mature into that. - a middle-aged ISTP
I completely agree. Being an INFP, I feel like I'm always trying to get everything right yet when it comes to the big picture, I just can't seem to grab it. I haven't actually met any other INFPs in real life, it's nice to know I'm not the only one.
Mr Super ENTP over here, questioning me or asking for a source does annoy me but I appreciate it because I get reminded to check myself and stay honest.
I never understood why INFP's are stereotyped to be the laziest of all personality types. I am bothered by clutter and messes, whereas my ENFP partner sprinkles messes like confetti all around the place.
😂 I love enfps regardless of it. Im an infp too but having esfj mom & estj grandmother has helped me be less lazy i guess. It doesn't help that im the eldest daughter of an Asian family so i have standards i have to live upto lol my estp dad on the other hand...
@@talkingtoawall5123 I think we can find people in cultures all around the world that think cleaning habits have some kind of moral correlation to us as a species. In my opinion we can grow up the cleanest most orderly person, then *boom* you're hit with some catastrophic life event. Illness, you lose your career, a family member, etc. And all practical life tasks start to lapse before your eyes. Then what? Are we worthless? Absolutely not. I think about my relationship with cleaning, me and her aren't the best. But hey, I didn't flourish in the critical environment I grew up in. I think infp's living alone is imperative to their Te because there's no harsh criticism about the way we get things done. After living alone a few years I've realized I should prioritize efficiency, (trial and error) and better cleaning habits just by being gentle to myself and watching RUclips videos on cleaning tips. I'm not saying I don't walk around in circles sometimes. But that's me. 😌
This is quite interesting... I have a phrase I have always told my husband. It goes like this "life is like a tree. You can either find happiness sitting on the ground while leaning on the trunk or you can find happiness sitting on the highest branch while also leaning on the trunk. Just know that sitting on the ground won't give you enough visibility and time to react to what's coming your way and you won't be able to prepare (think tsunami, wild fire which would correspond to financial crisis, job loss, illness, etc.). 🙄... I am an INTJ...
As an ENFP, now I understand much better why some people call me weirdo :D because it's just too much information and brilliant ideas for them :DD thanks for explanation!
I think I’ve been wrong about my type for a long time and N vs. S has been the sticky point. I thought I was INFP but I’ve been dealing with mental and physical health issues pretty much my whole life that took me out of my senses. Don’t come at me, INFPs! I don’t think you’re unhealthy, but with my senses being somewhat suppressed, I don’t know how much I was preferring intuition or being forced in that direction. As I’m feeling healthier, I’m feeling more grounded and the physical world and I find myself relying more on dance, physical work, painting, color, and music and being so much happier than I am when I’m in my head. Not that INFPs can’t appreciate or be good at these things, but I feel like I’m coming at them from a different direction. I still have a long way to go with being as healthy as I’d like to be, so I’d like to test myself in a couple of years to see what type I get. If it’s more accurate when I’m having more access to my senses. Do I want to use them more opposed to my intuition? I strongly suspect I’m ISFP, so that’s what I’m calling myself. I’ve also heard that ISFPs are pretty intuitive when it comes to being a sensing type.
@VyVAceShaz Thanks! Sounds valid- sometimes I’m not sure what I look like to others from the outside, and I’m def an ambivert. I love Heidi’s videos! It’ll be good to rewatch some knowing what I know now
I’m an INFP for certain and regularly do all of the aforementioned methods of expression. So for any INFP’s reading this, you can definitely be that type and be good at bringing your inner world to the surface of reality. Op is just talking about their personal experiences with physical health and the potential factor of it altering their relationship with their inner and outer worlds. Not that INFP types aren’t capable of the same level of expression as ISFP’s. For me personally I know I’m my type bc when I am in a very deep depressive state, my desire to retreat within is greater than my desire to express myself artistically. Once I come out of the really deep depression and move into a depression lite lol I can’t think of a better way to describe it, but basically it’s when I am still sad, but I will again start to feel the desire to transmute what I’m feeling and express it in some way.
3:15 great observation, FJ. I was a collegiate athlete (and am an ESFP) and any success I had was often due to anticipation and visualization. Can’t just blindly “do stuff.” You need some sort of goal to strive towards, whether that’s in the moment or long-term.
Hey! It’s weird still, but over the years I’ve found that checking in with real world is a type of safe-haven from the nebula of my introverted intuition. Incorporation of all the functions is really helpful when navigating the craziness of the world. Thanks, Frank, great video!
okay but, as an ENFP, what you said after 7:59 made me feel so understood and idk, valid? (idk it's too late at night i can't English rn) a lot of times I would be listening to my friends talking and suddenly say "oh, that remind me of that! // it's like this thing!" and they'd stop talking and look at me like I'm some sort of alien that just made the most absurd analogy ever when it MADE sense! i didn't - and still don't understand how they couldn't get it, but I guess it's just me being a chaotic ENFP
Lol esfj’s are one of my favorite type of sensors too! But I’m an ENTP we have all the same stuff but it’s flipped in order. It’s cool to see how they use all my functions differently. It’s kinda like if you found someone could use a hammer as a spoon and it worked surprisingly well. “Damn, I never thought to do that, but it’s working for them pretty well 😮!”
The advice type for the INTJ is so so so accurate for me. My friends always asks for my advice and when our topics gets far and farther from the first and asked me still I dunno it's just my mind just clicks and boom there is a connection. I just easily connect two things at once.
As an ENTJ I think I have a great balance between intuition & concrete as my intuition is mostly used in service of crafting a way forward to some tangible thing I want to achieve (Te-Ni).
I got to know an ENFP as an INFP and I can truly agree on the fact that he's jumping from one topic to another and it's really exhausting to me since I take in all the information and need time to actually answer because I have to think it through but before I'm able to reply he already jumped to the next thing 😐 like.. he's a great listener but still cuts in between my words when I'm having my thinking breaks. It's.. a difficult challenge sometimes 😂
As an INTP I expect things won't go my way which is probably why I have learned to rely on intuition more than in my past. The downside of low expectations is that it leads to fear of doing things when all of the ins and outs are considered.
Sir FJ, Could you please make a video on "How can the 16 personalities learn to get in touch with their inferior functions?" As an INFP, I really need it😢
As a both INF/TJ I can say that's completely true, many people say I can see the future, but I only try to see all the possibilities so finally one fits in reality.
As an ENFP i'm in my own world where i can do anything and i share my own world experience with others but then a sensing or thinking type brings me back to reality and i feel like i just got my heartbroken😢
As an INTJ, I run endless checklists and contingency plans in the background, and my greatest stressor is being blindsided by radically changed actions by others. ... and thanks to your channel, I don't know what type he is, but the person who tells me to print up XXX in the program leaflet and then changes it TWICE (to YYY, which I could flex with, then to ZZZ minutes before the event started) is still alive. He doesn't know it, but we both thank you.
as an intp, i rely on my intuition for everything in my life. school, jobs, counting, tests and quizzes. i’m too lazy to read and i don’t trust my logic so.. i always trust my gut. so far it has saved my life twice so i’m not gonna use my logic for a while. ofc when i need to but still
Hey Frank, i really like it when you become a little more serious instead of trying to look cool and funny all the time. Enjoyed the video :D (ENFP if you didnt already guess)
other people describe intuition differently, intuition is your gut feeling without having to think of the possibilities. Intuitive in Myers Briggs is thinking what the possibilities or outcome of a decision, it's calculated by experience,
As an ENTJ, I love my introverted intuition. It's so balanced. I can use it easily by looking into a bright future and pair it up with extroverted thinking to get things accomplished. This intuition is the very reason I'm able to fully develop my introverted feeling inferior function at just 20 years of age. I'm just so efficient right now with a balanced Te and Fi it's crazy. Thanks Ni! I love you 😘!
As an ENFP, I have realised that I don't use words that describe texture like "crunchy" "sticky" '"crispy" "chewy", etc. cuz I am just not aware of them. When I eat, my mind is doing a lot of abstract thinking so I often don't remember what I had for my meal.
i'm an INFJ and same. I never even dreamed that much...or if I did i gav it no validity cuz you know, its not real. Never trusted the ethereal world even though I clearly had it going on all along.
I'm an INFP and most of the timr I think about abstract story ideas and I struggle a lot with reality and annoying stuff like cleaning, cooking etc. I guess my sensing is that I like making to do lists (otherwise I'd be drowning in chaos)
I'm an ENTP, but older, so I've mastered using my intuition to not only see many possibilities and sides, but also using it to choose one possibility to predict a fairly correct outcome based on patterns I've observed. So...we're not *entirely* on the playground all the time 🤪
EXACTLY why i as an intj plan but, i **ONLY** do so in a loose manner. i know where i want to go and how to get there but, doing so in a loose manner allows me the flexibility to adjust as the unexpected damn near **invariably** occurs. my most successful ventures have damn near ALWAYS had THAT EXACT strategy in mind. ABSOLUTELY. FOR SURE.
The role of the slots isnt just an order in which you use them ranging from more or less frequency. Each one is used 100% of the time at the same time, the repressed inferior function being the one you find uncomfortable and use unconsciously or manually. The tertiary ni in istps and isfps is actually used more than they're se and its much more relevant to understanding them as its an introverted type. Tertiary ni in these two types is just focused through a filter, much like the se of an entj is filtered through ni. An isfp or istp uses ni almost identically to an ni dom but they arent SATISFIED with ideas alone, they need it to be somehow relevant to the current moment, something thats actually possible. So an isfps ni looks like trying to achieve an idealistic state of being, usually believing that who you decide to be and what you "want" is a reflection of your honest true self. An istp may be a bit less abstract but more or less the same. They can be extremely single minded in what they want, but they dont care about achievement or results as much as they value possibility and the idea of being able to visualize something. I feel istps and isfps have an even better sense of when soemthing isnt consistent or likely to pan out than higher ni users, theyre ni is grounded and strictly in service of they're other functions 100% of the time. They dont use it "sometimes" when they "need to" its not a tool box, its YOU. Your functions are not cards you possess, they are active processes taking place every waking moment or even when your dreaming. Even when your unconscious of it it goes on. This notion of using one function "more" than another and that determining your stack needs to end. It used to be that simple, but as we've developed it and understood it more as a community its become more specific and yung literally INTENDED for this. He literally was planning on having each type have 8 functions and thats where socionics comes from (i dont like socionics) i believe specifically tertiary ni users are the BEST example of being more able to tap into the unconscious than other types, studying them more and giving them more attention is something id really really appreciate. Isfps specifically are an anomaly, and istps are probably the most complex and interesting type ive ever studied.
@@nicoleonlysometimes824 the same sources as everyone else. I just didnt only interpret the parts i liked like most content creators on the subject. I mostly read two books by carl jung, and by talking with hundreds of members of the community we've slowly kind of headed in this direction as yung intended us to do. The system wasnt complete, it was a pet project for carl, something to convey a much larger and more useful idea, an idea many members of the community seem to ignore entirely. The whole unconscious mind thing and all it entails, this is just a useful way to apply that idea to the various aspects of the self. I feel like it could really help people not define or limit themselves, but to learn to free the parts of themselves they didnt even know where being abused and neglected. It really is a self love process and a way to directly act on it... but the idea that functions are in order by frequency of use was kind of made up by people over time and its proven itself to outright not work in any tangible way.
i was actually doubting myself being an infp because with others, im quite realistic and i care about the little details. but i spend my night daydreaming and imagining random things
This is amazing! It totally describes me too! I will always somehow circle a conversation back to empathy and emotions and human behavior or something~ (INFJ)
From a young age, I learned that the concept of “go with the flow,” or “embrace the chaos” to be THE best advice you can teach to a highly Ni person. It teaches them to let go of anxiety and to become more confident with themselves no matter what the situation they may face. Now, that I’m older, I have no problem with randomness that life throws at me. I rather enjoy it, really. My Se eats it up. Anyhow, first function Ni is kinda weird to have. I use it for everything, sometimes without realizing it too. Just several weeks ago, I had a dream where I was playing a song on the piano. So I woke up 3 in the morning thinking, I should write the musical composition down… because you know, I will definitely forget it by 7 am later. Too bad my lazy butt didn’t feel like getting out of bed. Lol since now, I forgot the entire song altogether.
Can please do one on building sensory functions for intj and infj? Really needed because sometimes end up being absent minded while avoiding the sensory world 🥺 -intj
Loved to "hear" that Tommy and you enjoyed the "Get Back" together. My face like: 😁😁 Greetings. Peter Jackson is director so it rlly must be like "standing next to all of them." O-tone only. 👂🏻👂🏻
I'm an INFP and I totally relate to what Multitudes has stated. When writing though I feel that I often think too much on getting it perfect and then not wanting to share it in fear that it's not good enough. That aside, my comment is actually about an INFJ friend that does exactly what Frank says and circles back to some abstract thought when giving advice. I don't write it off but put it in the back of my mind as a maybe. It just struck me as funny when Frank shared that.
As an ENTP, I can really relate to this whole "people don't understand what the heck I'm talking about" thing. And since I also talk about science fiction 89% of the time, it really confuses people. Also I can relate to the "reluctance" of doing like, extremely organized things such as, I don't know, filing a paper for school or something, or taking like an exam that makes you explain stuff in less then like, 30 words. It's hard.
As an INTJ and having a good hold of my Fi, I do enjoy, in addition to the countless use of Ni everywhere in my life, in also planning and setting new principles for myself so that I don't act in a way that's against what I value to be the authentic myself in (almost imaginary) scenarios. It has worked well for me. I don't like surprise reactions from myself to life, and will be in existential crisis if I had to do something like that.
Really like this video. FJ you seem more relaxed here. I felt like a friend was explaining MBTI to me and I was patiently listening and taking mental notes. 🙂 I know INFJs might have struggles and not show them, so I hope you were genuinely feeling good while filming the video. All the best to you! ☺️
Introverted intuition is that guy/girl in your head that never stops talking. It constantly draws lines between dots or paints whole pictures and talks, talks about those dots, lines, colors, vibes, similarities, from this very point to far distance. - INTJ
Wow nailed it so badly that it feels like sorcery, Frank... This was scary, truly, also insanely reassuring in a way because I finally hear an explanation for something I thought was a monstrous flaw (well it still kinda is xD) all along.. But a least now I know the _why_ behind it. I'm not religious but bless you, Frank! You are helping people fr.
It might be weird when an intuitive talks to someone else about abstract things. Another weird thing I've found mind blowing is that some people will actually talk to you for extended periods of time about physical objects. Boards, nails, walls, pipes, things like that, and their measurements... and quantities. When you talk to an INFP about stuff like that it's very hard for us to survive the conversation. Like you mention types that talk about things that are concrete, some people will actually talk about concrete itself, the material. And not at work either, for fun.
INFJ, last week: went to the laundrette. put the laundry in machine #5. Went to the automat, paid the wrong number, #6. Unable to create the right thought, I also paid #6. Left the laundrette. 30 seconds later, my mind went: "Darn, I should have put the laundry in #6." Another thing is often, if you prepare to buy something and the price is not the price in my head, my brain shuts down, I pay and leave the supermarket, unable to explain my behavior. Reality? I barely survive it.
that explains how some athletes just go and go when their body is getting beat up. They are focused on their goal, not on long term consequences. they are ignoring the "big picture."
Being an intuitive can create unique challenges. Especially when you can quickly figure out that someone has motives that aren’t good but everyone else views the person as wonderful. Over the years, I’ve learned to just let everything play out and others will eventually figure it out. If you say something about the person early on, people assume that you are the jerk.
That used to worry me, but now I just let things play out too. Most people don't listen, or assume you have bad motives for saying something. I do try to get people to connect the pieces they themselves have noticed though, if they are not good at it. It's only in extreme circumstances I will pile in and say 'Whoa' or 'Get out of that right now!' when they more or less need an ambulance crew. What my intuition has always been good at is picking up 'false' people, those who say one thing but do another, very quickly. Well, I say good, but I do give too many second chances, not many thirds though now. I dislike having such good intuition because it is hard to use for good. Of course most people will just think you are a nutter if you say 'I have bad feelings about this' but don't always have enough concrete evidence to back it up.. In terms of inter-personal relationships, things have improved as we have nicely defined labels for emotional manipulation techniques from psychology which I can use to them, which depersonalises it rather than saying 'Your boy/girlfriend is treating you badly' (vague and subjective), I can say read up on gaslighting, breadcrumbing, coercive control etc. INFPs have a few more advantages that INFJs in their cognitive functions being more balanced in favour of balancing themselves, rather than what is outside themselves. What is interesting is the J in INFs is actually perceiving, and the P in INFPs is more a judging function I know I, as an INFJ, perceive things more than judge, as it has always seemed to me. I think extroverted feeling sometimes trips me up because I feel sorry for people who have no ethics, but I perceive that they are bad to have around, rather than judge them on stricter terms. INFJs are more tolerant of others, but this does not mean they are weak. Offend their sense of values and that door will slam on you pretty quickly. I perceive the world around me very well, in a visual sense, but the way it works (people, routines, expectations) doesn't make much sense to me, perhaps because there is a lack of logic in how those things work.
When I say 'lack of logic' I mean for someone who bases systems on how people feel and can fit in rather than the most efficient, cost effective but impersonal and demeaning!
@@angelatewson8202 I can relate. I’m an ENTJ but barely E. I have a similar situation of feeling sorry for people behaving badly because that usually comes from a place of insecurity. I had an employee once who was dealing with a very difficult person. I told my employee we should feel sorry for that person because they are probably insecure. My employee responded “Are you kidding me?” 😂🥲. That’s empathy though and ignoring the grumbly ones many times works. It’s those people that act as sweet as candy but have motives that aren’t good but no one seems to see it. I’m a Christian so I pray for those people and my own attitude but it’s definitely hard to sit and watch the show. It amazes me when people around seem to not ever figure it out though. 🤷🏼♀️
Whoop! I've just realised why I've moved from enfp/tp to infp/tp.... my function stack! I guess (😅) I've learned to access my less dominant preferences over time... thanks for the FJ enlightenment Frank 😊 (in both senses!).
As an INFP, I've always felt oddly balanced between being an extremely abstract, big-picture thinker and extremely detail-oriented at the same time. I think this is something with obvious benefits for artistic and creative endeavors, where we will often work very carefully to get every little detail right in service of perfectly bringing to life the big picture we're trying to create.
**relates**
Me too!
But the motivation to do anything though-
Yess!! You articulated it perfectly!!
As an INTP, I can relate
"INFPs and INTPs are not totally useless." Thanks Frank, I feel so validated now! 😃
I'd love to see a video on what the 16 personalities need, to feel they're winning at life.
YESSS
he's infp it's self-irony.
He is INFJ
@@blandon93 he's INFJ
ayo INTPs aren't even useless, with their intelligence they might get famous (gaming)
As an INTJ, I'm sometimes very good at predicting even 1 in 100 possibilities. And sometimes, I completely neglect and distrust my intuition.
The distrusting part is from Te ...not that Ni is at fault ... Te is pragmatic so too much intuitive stuff is not acceptable for Te
As an INFJ I relate to this.
i relate (intj)
I feel you!
@@shikhasuman871 u r a regular, arent u, lol !
I'm an INFJ and a biologist, and this video really got to me. When I was studying for my Master's degree, I could always see the patterns in how things fit together . . . but if someone asked for specific interactions, my mind would go blank. (It often goes blank in times like that when asked for a specific example that demonstrates an overall picture that I understand very well!)
I am INFJ and right now I am taking my double major master degree in bio and chem and I can fully understand you 😭
Reminder me of An Ni story Ihad.
When we were researching the Ideal growth conditions for bell pepper, we quickly found out this pepper was taken from the mexican plateau, since it grew around Mexico city. So my teacher (ESTJ) basically dismissed the Idea right away as speculation.
So during the project, we found the temperature and humidity were more or less the same as on the Mexican plateau. Now, bell peppers ideally grow with between 20 and 22 hours of sunlight per day which is not the case in the Mexican plateau, but taking the natural conditions as a starting point seems to schorten the searching process although does make one vulnerable to confirmation bias.
As for moleculair pathways, those just give me acute dyslexia.
As an Infj sometimes I just know things, but I have the hardest time explaining or giving examples on it. Kind of like how intjs are very good at micro expressions? But infjs do it with observation. And then put things together. If that makes sense. No pun intended.
Same, and also finishing my Master's in Bio. I like connecting dots, even understanding how different topics fit together (evolution and cognition for ex.) but I need some time to think about an actual, concrete example. Like an interaction between 2 species. But with time I can find one to illustrate. Knowing this is a weak spot, I've since then tried to come up with big examples to illustrate all the concepts that I've learned.
As an INFP who doesn’t have the best self esteem, it was nice to hear that I’m the happy medium of having one foot in wonderland, and the other in reality. That divide makes itself known in so many aspects of my life and the way I express myself artistically, and has for as long as I can remember. And it is so clearly expressed to other people that I have, by more than one person, been described as “Daria if she had a much more animated/dynamic way of speaking” which I find hilarious every time I think about it. But yeah, this has honestly been one of the most positive descriptions or things that I’ve heard about being an INFP that didn’t feel like it had strings attached to something negative. So thanks 😅
Infp with username so long i can't read it all is 10 out of 10, also fr fi users in general get talked about with a weird more negative kinda undertone than when talking about most types
-isfp
You're just not okay. As an INFP I walked in your shoes.
🥺🥺🥺
"the INFPs and INTPs are not totally useless"
finally the validation i have been looking for! thanks FJ!
You know I'm glad that Frank James made a video like this because being an infj I really enjoying understanding other people thought and feeling process. It helps the ride go so much smoother for both parties.
@@vsingerenthusiast If they're annoying to you, why are you friends with them?
(INTJ) As I get older, I think my sensing abilities have gotten more balanced. Random things that felt so chaotic and devastating to my plans when I was younger are now much more bearable most of the time. I’ve learned how to be more flexible, and it’s brought a lot of peace. It’s just not a skill that came overnight. And honestly I think having people in my life who are better with their sensory functions helped me to learn how they do it, and use those observations for my own life. However I can’t say I never get thrown totally off anymore. Occasionally it still happens. Just a lot less than it used to.
I agree. While planning for the future is inevitable for us, what I've learned by being flexible is to create contingency plans just in case, and a part of those contingencies is a room to be alert and make spontaneous plans in case unexpected things happen. When chaos ensues, it can get pretty stressful, but I do this to maintain my cool and not allow panic to overtake my decision-making skills. The last thing I want out of this is feeling like I made needless mistakes along the way.
@@BuizelCream That's what I do. I have a plan and expect problems and create back-up plans and allowed myself to plan on the fly if none of those worked. That's how I handle chaos.
ENFP mom here who really gets a kick out of my INFP daughter & INTP son...they hang out & create & learn together. Once I learned their types, I realized that a lot of our joy of being together is largely because of our collective Ne.
Haha the jokes must be awesome, I can just hear them.
It's good to know about Personality types, but never rely on them when it comes to teaming up with someone
As an infj I have noticed that it's often not reality that gets me into trouble, but not listening to my own intuition.
My predictive skills are actually amazing, but I don't always rely on them. I do in my head, but not in my actions.
Also, it's hard if you know things about other people, you can't actually manipulate them into doing what you feel is best for them.
I mean, you can but that's not healthy.
But I am indeed always scared of the chaos and uncertainty of things crashing down around me.
Can relate to that a lot. I'm an Infp but I used to be an Infj and I found a lot of the times I assumed people would react a certain way about what I said. Like a bad way, usually. But more often than not that wasn't true. I've found that thru that Ive trusted my intuition more. Because if I don't I make decisions on a whim that just get me hurt in the end. I think us Infj-p types need to trust ourselves more. We know what we need, it's best not to make exceptions. But at the same time- it's those experience that teach us that our intuition was right all along. Sometimes we need the extra nudge.
Right now I actually am going through a breakup and I knew from the beginning there was chemistry but I wasn't completely romantically interested. But I gave it a shot anyway. And it left me with heartbreak over him not being the one. Now I'm not sure if I'll try again with him but it goes to show I knew intuitively what I was doing was a bad idea, but I ignored it out of boredom and lonelyness.
Sometimes you gotta watch out- we can manipulate ourselves into believing something is right for us to easily if we lack security within ourselves.
@@aurora_boketto7746 That is so true. We really need to work on that inner security that we already know what is right for us. When you have a family, it's also hard to navigate how you go about things you know will turn out bad, but the others don't see it. Do you let it happen,or do you go all-in trying to convince them? So hard!
@@pinkpeonygirl right! It can be so difficult seeing three steps ahead. I think maybe the best thing to do is nudge them, otherwise we'll go crazy trying to help them. It takes acceptance and release. I'm still working on that one 😭🤣
Can I ask your advice on relationships that involve that constant push and pull?
@@aurora_boketto7746 I don't know if I'll be able to help, but you can ask me anything.
@@pinkpeonygirl No worries any knowledge is helpful~ From your experience with relationships how did you go abt dealing with extremely stubborn ppl? 🤔 I feel like I deal with these types a lottt and it makes me wonder if I'm just attracting the wrong ppl tbh
As an old INFP (64) I can testify absolutely to the power of exploiting the inferior functions. It is counter-instinctive at first (in youth) but one hopefully learns in time to devote the introverted sensing and, especially, the extroverted thinking intensely to the realization of the visions your Fi and Ne are constantly bringing you--no, not to all of them but to the ones that have a real chance at realization. An INFP who has pumped his/her Te up to the maximum is a force to be reckoned with.
fellow old infp here......agree. 😉
So glad to hear! There's light ahead
Totally! I've gone from fashion designer in my 20's to clinical neuropsychology in my late 40's❤️
@@martine5716 Wow, that's brilliant!
@@gmhefner1 Old INFPs, unite! 😊
hey frank! i have some ideas for future videos:
16 personalities in their wedding
16 personalities interacting with their extroverted type for example, INTJ interacting with ENTJ
16 personalities interacting with their ideal type, for example, ISTP interacting with ESTJ or ENTJ
16 personalities as superheroes and super villains, like the hero is one type and the villain is its opposite type. for example ESTP is the villain so INFJ would be the hero
16 personalities watching anime
16 personalities playing minecraft
16 personalities interacting with each other on discord
16 personalities as spies
idk how good or bad these are, but they sound like they'll be fun to watch
They are nice｡◕‿◕｡
Yes! Woah you just dropped an amazing idea bomb!😉
I'm INFJ , had crush on ESTP but never dated , it's funny reading "ESTP is the villian so INFJ would be the hero"
Yes as spies
These are SO GOOD IDEAS! Frank James PLEASE see this comment @Hajira is so smart for doing that
I know bunches of people have given you video ideas lately. Here’s some more:
1. 16 Personalities (16P) Traveling to Another Dimension
2. 16P Interacting with Their Shadow Type (INFJ & ENFP, for example)
3. 16P in the Medieval Era
4. 16P Learning They’re Going to Become a Dad
5. 16P Buying a Car
6. Eulogy That 16P Would Get
7. 16P Having to Do Their Least Favorite Thing
8. 16P Joining an Adult Recreational Sports Team
9. 16P Being Interviewed on a Talk Show
10. 16P Confessing Their Sins to a Catholic Priest
11. 16P Losing a Bet
What about Planet [insert type]?
Dude lands on a planet full of ISTJs. Immediately has to fill in twenty forms.
16p as musicians
@@Raphsophomes That one's been done.
9 is big INFP vibes
I love the 11 so much
As an INFP that lines up perfectly, it's like Dr. Strange looking through different outcomes of a situation but still being able to come back to reality
As an INTJ I've already prepared myself to a life living as a blind, in a wheelchair, in a war or any other style of life which doesn't even have any real life foundation. Take that, reality!
Give it time (INTP)
Just don’t suffer an existential crisis and you’ll probably be fine…
Is the meaning of life itself not still a social construct?
as an INFJ your comment about no matter how hard we try reality will always hit us throughout life was quite unsettling. anyways im going to ignore that comment and go back to the book i am reading :)
being on the boarders of an INFJ and INTJ, I wouldn't call reality as a fear, more like an irritation to enjoying this so-called LIFE.
Yep, what’s the point? What IS reality? Is the generalized meaning of life itself not also a social construct?
I always say INFJs have the intuition super power, and I am proud of that :D
Personally, I (an INTP) am glad to have intuition (Ne) as my auxiliary fuction. I get the impression that it is very overwhelming as a dominant function.
My daughter is an ENFP, so I see that in action. She has a very manic energy, and is always firing off in all directions. She has a hard time directing her energy , and she runs into trouble when it comes to completing assignments for school. I had a lot of the same issues growing up, but with her, they are turned up to eleven.
As an ENFP, yes. We exhaust ourselves and wish we could be a bit more focused on the important stuff.
INFP here agrees. Auxiliary Ne is exhausting enough, would not be able to handle that craziness as a dominant function lol
It's incredible how some change in functions can alter our whole behavior and perception of the world.
As an INFP I'm constantly struggling with day to day life outside work, and even at work I stumbled a little from time to time.
@@jimclayson I ride some very choppy alpha to delta waves in my "sleep" if you can call it that. I'm pretty much an ESTP in my dreams and wake up exhausted. Wouldn't say I've done anything unfathomable outside sleep though...
@@Chigger I agree. I'm an ENFP and it's very tiring, especially when you don't know how to handle the creativeness that comes with it.
It was worse during my lowest times where it causes me to overthink.
It took a lot of spirituality work, honestly. But I have trained my introverted feeling in the recent years.
I only do things that have hold high value to me. Because that is how Enfps thrive.
Agreed, INFP who can follow procedures if it's need it.
As an INTJ, yes I'm highly intuitive, but I can't be intuitive if I don't have real data points to connect. I was providing information to a museum on video games and I keep getting all kinds of praise for it, and I'm guessing the intuition is why because I tell them about games and the history of each game and I recontextualize it in a variety of ways (history of technology, corporate history, history of trends, history of representation, personal history etc) depending on what topic I come up with to try to explain the information, and I wonder if that's what they're really intrigued by? I was thinking about this recently, and for me all the data points are like attachment points in a cat's cradle, but I can reconfigure the cradle in all kinds of different ways by adding or removing fingers.
Yep, I tend to intuitively use prior knowledge and understanding of concepts to predict outcomes and make plans
Personally as an Intj.Intuitive and logic needs to be balanced. I mean most of my plans are using intuitive (NI) and then to make it happen i will use (TE). We are (Intj) different from Istj who will always use the details.
My intuition told me there was a video of yours premiering
Perfect as usual. As an INFJ male the best thing I did in my 30’s was put myself in S-type situations and force myself to be in the moment - helps me prepare for the future so much more!!
As an INTJ, I can attest, reality and I are mortal enemies.
This video had me thinking that a video addressing the four functions that are NOT in a person's stack would be interesting. We talk about this fourth function like it's the worst of us, but it's still getting more play then the other four that aren't in our stack at all, no? I would love more info on how that all works out!
im an estp, and im in the football team. i was ultra surprised by how accurate he was about imagining achievements
Se/Ni is imaginative in the physical realm. It's very good at spatial imagining. If I'm designing something I see it in my head before I build it. In sports, you see the play. When golfing, I see the flight of the ball before I hit it.
Frank James! I hope you're doing well! May I ask for something?can you pls make more videos about the cognitive functions?I love the way you explain things easily yet you make me understand more about mbti,and since you're probably the most followed mbti youtuber in the platform I think ppl need to know more about the cognitive functions to go further more deep into mbti,a specific video for every cognitive function would be amazing since you really seem to know alot about these topics and the way you give information is amazing,thank you!
he has specific videos abt infjs in particular and 2-3 abt infps. He has also focused on certain aspects of some MBTI types. But ya wht u r saying is a great idea! Even i wanted more cognitive functions' videos from him!
Yeah we know the cognitive functions but doesn't really know how they work and when we use it.... It would be great if he explains it with some examples!!
yesss
that’s what i was just thinking, i want to know the difference between Ne and Ni, the difference between Fi and Fe and etc. I’m not very fluent in english so i might’ve missed a lot of information when talking about these functions, i did read a few comments in his video where he was explaining the cognitive functions however, i still find it difficult to understand :// i really wanna learn about mbti to make sure i have the correct type (i know my type is already accurate enough to name myself an infp but thinking about how i still dont know the difference between Ni and Ne bla bla bla bothers me lol :,) )
@@jdope893 if you want to learn, check out videos by INFJinxed on RUclips. She's very thorough with functions but explains them in brief. She also compares types... I've been binging her content lately and it's very insightful.
I hope Frank explore cognitive functions too cz he does it in fun ways...
I noticed in myself that I have always been protecting this world inside of me from being destroyed by anything
~INFJ
9:14 The big realisation moment for me! I used to think how everything is so connected and i don't like people repeating things yet I'm doing the same- talking about ONE same thing in MANY ways, many perspectives, all coexisting, all related (not like a sequence but a spider web because i like to further go in details like space and time) and revolving around one same core which others don't "get".
As an ENTP I find Ne Dom is great but a freaking pain when I'm trying to work on schoolwork or actually put some of my ideas (for writing) on paper. My parents thought I may have had ADHD as a kid but I've learned that it's likely just the fact that I'm an Ne Dom.
Edit: I'm actually not an Ne Dom at all- I don't even have Ne. I'm more likely high Se.
@@tommyrasmussen2337 could be worth trying to retype yourself if you feel that your results could be inaccurate
A lot of Ne doms have ADHD, so I wouldn't put that out of the picture. Myers Briggs isn't pathological or inherent but disorders are!
@@xF3ARL3SSx43VR I've been tested but I'm never close enough to be diagnosed. It's been interesting. You are correct that many Ne doms have ADHD or are diagnosed with it. Part of the issue is the interpretation of information. It's hard to figure out how we should do so with this correlation. Yk?
@@ivynyan ReALLY
There are actual correlations between AD(H)D and Ne/Se, but don't let the systems of SJ tell you what's "normal"
*INTJ* who's very familiar with *INFJs* ... I'd say we're both very intuitive, but in different ways
Yes, it’s probably because of intj’s Te and infj’s Fe.
My mother (infj) is incredibly good at figuring people out from almost no knowledge about them (although I often tell her to not jump to conclusions even though she may be right (she often is, it's frustrating. We get the 'I told you so' regularly), she may also be wrong). My intuition is more about how a situation will end, but I don't listen to it most of the time because I can't have proof/can't prove it and it's therefore unreliable (thanks aux Te). Until I realise I was right. Damn me. 'I knew it' is something I often say (in frustration)
My mother does have a complex system of knowledge. She blurts things out at random most of the time until I ask her to develop her point and bam! it's all connected and makes sense. I do the same, but with academic knowledge and my imagination (of the two, I'm the most imaginative/creative. I'm the one coaching mum to explore her artistic side 😃 Take that, 16p stereotypes!) edit: I'm intj btw
@@changminscreamsalot i enjoyed reading this. Thank you for your input :)
@@josephineemarch You're welcome!
The romanticisation of intuitive dom types tends to forget that Ne or Ni doms can be incredibly off the mark. My mother and I should write an anthology of all the stupid stuff we've said (our perception of reality is, uhm, something. We also bump in chairs each five minutes)
ENFP here and I agree with this video. It can be so hard for me to focus my energy. I have so many ideas but only few of them come to the real world. I remember that in high school we had a class activity where others had to describe you with an emoji and I got many aliens😂 because for other people, ENFPs can seem a little bit crazy. And to be honest, we can seem a little bit crazy to ourselves too. When we are trying to put things in order in our minds it can be so hard and exhausting!
Totally once a professeur said I was a precocious child because I had so many too many ideas but I couldn’t organise them and I had the urge to tell them all, talking very fast so the professor could not interrupt me. And sometimes so much things are going through my head that it disconnect me with real life and I end up keeping my thought for myself. So I relate the weird part too
About 2:52
I believe Djokovic is an ESFP and he often talks about how he imagines himself as holding the trophy or imagining the crowd cheering his name instead of the opponent's which helps him to overcome difficult situations. Those who want to see this in action go watch the last few games of the Wimbledon final vs Federer in 2019.
Also, he's very big on spirituality, knowing yourself, psychology and similar things. So I wonder if he's aware of the cognitive functions and has deliberately "trained" his intuition to help him out in matches.
INTP, all things considered, I wouldn't have any other way.
Phasing out of reality in the middle of work, yup.
Skipping family gathering, blowing off dates, yup.
And I'd do it all over.
Getting lost in a book, following the zeitgeist, finding another book, that ability alone makes it all worth it.
Yeah! Ne is awesome to have, i just have a hard time showing it to the world because i'm honestly quite shy
Same i like having Ne-si in the middle (both intuition & sensing in the middle so we get the best of both worlds yk) but being honest sometimes i tend to stay in my tert Si comfort zone a lil bit too much, that's when it creates problems and- the dreaded looping.
At this stage of the game, I wholeheartedly trust my intuition as much as I trust my senses. It is, after all, a sixth sense. But it definitely took a certain amount of experience to mature into that. - a middle-aged ISTP
I completely agree. Being an INFP, I feel like I'm always trying to get everything right yet when it comes to the big picture, I just can't seem to grab it. I haven't actually met any other INFPs in real life, it's nice to know I'm not the only one.
What about a Male INFP?😳 am here we exist!
INFP here with an ENFP best friend. Very accurate!
Seems we INTJ & INFJ are the MasterIntuition 💙 but Spectators of the Reality XD.
That's right. XD
Like Wile E Coyote
Mr Super ENTP over here, questioning me or asking for a source does annoy me but I appreciate it because I get reminded to check myself and stay honest.
Mr Ultra ENTP here. Good to see a brother among us
I never understood why INFP's are stereotyped to be the laziest of all personality types. I am bothered by clutter and messes, whereas my ENFP partner sprinkles messes like confetti all around the place.
Really love the way you described your ENFP 😂 Thanks for the happiness boost! - INTJ
Haha, I'm an INFP and I'm more like your ENFP. Not too bothered by messes and on the lazy side with chores, though I've gotten better with age.
Lol confetti messes would be slightly more pleasant than ordinary ones
😂 I love enfps regardless of it. Im an infp too but having esfj mom & estj grandmother has helped me be less lazy i guess. It doesn't help that im the eldest daughter of an Asian family so i have standards i have to live upto lol
my estp dad on the other hand...
@@talkingtoawall5123 I think we can find people in cultures all around the world that think cleaning habits have some kind of moral correlation to us as a species. In my opinion we can grow up the cleanest most orderly person, then *boom* you're hit with some catastrophic life event. Illness, you lose your career, a family member, etc. And all practical life tasks start to lapse before your eyes. Then what? Are we worthless? Absolutely not. I think about my relationship with cleaning, me and her aren't the best. But hey, I didn't flourish in the critical environment I grew up in. I think infp's living alone is imperative to their Te because there's no harsh criticism about the way we get things done. After living alone a few years I've realized I should prioritize efficiency, (trial and error) and better cleaning habits just by being gentle to myself and watching RUclips videos on cleaning tips. I'm not saying I don't walk around in circles sometimes. But that's me. 😌
This is quite interesting... I have a phrase I have always told my husband. It goes like this "life is like a tree. You can either find happiness sitting on the ground while leaning on the trunk or you can find happiness sitting on the highest branch while also leaning on the trunk. Just know that sitting on the ground won't give you enough visibility and time to react to what's coming your way and you won't be able to prepare (think tsunami, wild fire which would correspond to financial crisis, job loss, illness, etc.). 🙄... I am an INTJ...
As an ENFP, now I understand much better why some people call me weirdo :D because it's just too much information and brilliant ideas for them :DD thanks for explanation!
I think I’ve been wrong about my type for a long time and N vs. S has been the sticky point. I thought I was INFP but I’ve been dealing with mental and physical health issues pretty much my whole life that took me out of my senses. Don’t come at me, INFPs! I don’t think you’re unhealthy, but with my senses being somewhat suppressed, I don’t know how much I was preferring intuition or being forced in that direction. As I’m feeling healthier, I’m feeling more grounded and the physical world and I find myself relying more on dance, physical work, painting, color, and music and being so much happier than I am when I’m in my head. Not that INFPs can’t appreciate or be good at these things, but I feel like I’m coming at them from a different direction. I still have a long way to go with being as healthy as I’d like to be, so I’d like to test myself in a couple of years to see what type I get. If it’s more accurate when I’m having more access to my senses. Do I want to use them more opposed to my intuition? I strongly suspect I’m ISFP, so that’s what I’m calling myself. I’ve also heard that ISFPs are pretty intuitive when it comes to being a sensing type.
Maybe this video will help you to decide which type you are:
ruclips.net/video/AknnKNtaJQQ/видео.html
@@starfish5267 Thanks! I’ll check it out!
@VyVAceShaz Thanks! Sounds valid- sometimes I’m not sure what I look like to others from the outside, and I’m def an ambivert. I love Heidi’s videos! It’ll be good to rewatch some knowing what I know now
I’m an INFP for certain and regularly do all of the aforementioned methods of expression.
So for any INFP’s reading this, you can definitely be that type and be good at bringing your inner world to the surface of reality. Op is just talking about their personal experiences with physical health and the potential factor of it altering their relationship with their inner and outer worlds. Not that INFP types aren’t capable of the same level of expression as ISFP’s.
For me personally I know I’m my type bc when I am in a very deep depressive state, my desire to retreat within is greater than my desire to express myself artistically. Once I come out of the really deep depression and move into a depression lite lol I can’t think of a better way to describe it, but basically it’s when I am still sad, but I will again start to feel the desire to transmute what I’m feeling and express it in some way.
@@daftne11 hope you're in a better state of mind at the moment
3:15 great observation, FJ. I was a collegiate athlete (and am an ESFP) and any success I had was often due to anticipation and visualization. Can’t just blindly “do stuff.” You need some sort of goal to strive towards, whether that’s in the moment or long-term.
Being an intj is like, “let me just use my intution.....oh my, now I need to create forty more back up plans for my vision to perfectly come true”
Hey! It’s weird still, but over the years I’ve found that checking in with real world is a type of safe-haven from the nebula of my introverted intuition. Incorporation of all the functions is really helpful when navigating the craziness of the world. Thanks, Frank, great video!
okay but, as an ENFP, what you said after 7:59 made me feel so understood and idk, valid? (idk it's too late at night i can't English rn) a lot of times I would be listening to my friends talking and suddenly say "oh, that remind me of that! // it's like this thing!" and they'd stop talking and look at me like I'm some sort of alien that just made the most absurd analogy ever when it MADE sense! i didn't - and still don't understand how they couldn't get it, but I guess it's just me being a chaotic ENFP
I FEEL you! It’s so hard, especially when you take the time to explain the connection and they still don’t understand😭😭
4:27 wow, that's why I get along so well with my ESFJ mom. We have similar humor.
-INFP
Lol esfj’s are one of my favorite type of sensors too! But I’m an ENTP we have all the same stuff but it’s flipped in order. It’s cool to see how they use all my functions differently. It’s kinda like if you found someone could use a hammer as a spoon and it worked surprisingly well. “Damn, I never thought to do that, but it’s working for them pretty well 😮!”
The advice type for the INTJ is so so so accurate for me. My friends always asks for my advice and when our topics gets far and farther from the first and asked me still I dunno it's just my mind just clicks and boom there is a connection. I just easily connect two things at once.
As an ENTJ I think I have a great balance between intuition & concrete as my intuition is mostly used in service of crafting a way forward to some tangible thing I want to achieve (Te-Ni).
I got to know an ENFP as an INFP and I can truly agree on the fact that he's jumping from one topic to another and it's really exhausting to me since I take in all the information and need time to actually answer because I have to think it through but before I'm able to reply he already jumped to the next thing 😐 like.. he's a great listener but still cuts in between my words when I'm having my thinking breaks. It's.. a difficult challenge sometimes 😂
damn he literally read through me, being an INTJ I always fear bout things not going my way-
As an INTP I expect things won't go my way which is probably why I have learned to rely on intuition more than in my past. The downside of low expectations is that it leads to fear of doing things when all of the ins and outs are considered.
I am an ENFJ and have strong intuition ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Sir FJ, Could you please make a video on "How can the 16 personalities learn to get in touch with their inferior functions?"
As an INFP, I really need it😢
Need that as an ENTP too. Inferior Si sucks
You could start watching videos by Erik Thor, Heidi Priebe, and Dreamsaroundtheworld.
No because me too, i still really can't develop my Fe as an INTP
As a both INF/TJ I can say that's completely true, many people say I can see the future, but I only try to see all the possibilities so finally one fits in reality.
a very Doctor Strage way of seeing reality
When you said “this video will keep it simple Simon” I felt like you were speaking into my soul
As an ENFP i'm in my own world where i can do anything and i share my own world experience with others but then a sensing or thinking type brings me back to reality and i feel like i just got my heartbroken😢
Same hunnnyyyy
As an INTJ, I run endless checklists and contingency plans in the background, and my greatest stressor is being blindsided by radically changed actions by others. ... and thanks to your channel, I don't know what type he is, but the person who tells me to print up XXX in the program leaflet and then changes it TWICE (to YYY, which I could flex with, then to ZZZ minutes before the event started) is still alive. He doesn't know it, but we both thank you.
as an intp, i rely on my intuition for everything in my life. school, jobs, counting, tests and quizzes. i’m too lazy to read and i don’t trust my logic so.. i always trust my gut. so far it has saved my life twice so i’m not gonna use my logic for a while. ofc when i need to but still
As an ENTP, i can definitely say the inferior Si is crippling. I think i’m getting better at it tho
Enfp here. It is. Very. But I've gotten better at it over time. Working with our weaknesses by finding people who can help.
Hey Frank, i really like it when you become a little more serious instead of trying to look cool and funny all the time. Enjoyed the video :D (ENFP if you didnt already guess)
other people describe intuition differently, intuition is your gut feeling without having to think of the possibilities. Intuitive in Myers Briggs is thinking what the possibilities or outcome of a decision, it's calculated by experience,
Rejoice INFPs we finally are not on the 'bottom' of the list. Woot woot
As an ENTJ, I love my introverted intuition. It's so balanced. I can use it easily by looking into a bright future and pair it up with extroverted thinking to get things accomplished. This intuition is the very reason I'm able to fully develop my introverted feeling inferior function at just 20 years of age. I'm just so efficient right now with a balanced Te and Fi it's crazy. Thanks Ni! I love you 😘!
I love Ni more - INFJ
very good lesson. i know 2 intjs that if you mess with their apple cart of idea(s) they get very upset and can not handle it.
Drinking Game: Take a shot every time he says “Intuition”.
As an ENFP, I have realised that I don't use words that describe texture like "crunchy" "sticky" '"crispy" "chewy", etc. cuz I am just not aware of them. When I eat, my mind is doing a lot of abstract thinking so I often don't remember what I had for my meal.
Yeah. And then have to think if I actually ate, then have to figure out what day it is. Doesn’t time just skinny on by sometimes 😮😊
I didn't really understand that I was intuitive until my mid-30s. Took me awhile to trust it as an INTJ.
i'm an INFJ and same. I never even dreamed that much...or if I did i gav it no validity cuz you know, its not real. Never trusted the ethereal world even though I clearly had it going on all along.
So... I'm an ENFP and when he came out with the laundry I burst into laugh, I still have my clothes waiting to laundry lol
I'm an INFP and most of the timr I think about abstract story ideas and I struggle a lot with reality and annoying stuff like cleaning, cooking etc. I guess my sensing is that I like making to do lists (otherwise I'd be drowning in chaos)
Infj: planning a lot, but not actually doing anything 🤦♀️.
I'm an ENTP, but older, so I've mastered using my intuition to not only see many possibilities and sides, but also using it to choose one possibility to predict a fairly correct outcome based on patterns I've observed. So...we're not *entirely* on the playground all the time 🤪
As an INFJ, with a very strong relationship with an ENFP and knowing a few INFPs, THANK YOU! Psaki must be one of those 2 🤣
Somebody talk to me
Me: Huh? Sorry, What did u said?
im always share about my opinions not experiences because im always at home. im just thankful that i have a lots of it and i think they are useful
EXACTLY why i as an intj plan but, i **ONLY** do so in a loose manner.
i know where i want to go and how to get there but, doing so in a loose manner allows me the flexibility to adjust as the unexpected damn near **invariably** occurs.
my most successful ventures have damn near ALWAYS had THAT EXACT strategy in mind.
ABSOLUTELY.
FOR SURE.
The role of the slots isnt just an order in which you use them ranging from more or less frequency. Each one is used 100% of the time at the same time, the repressed inferior function being the one you find uncomfortable and use unconsciously or manually. The tertiary ni in istps and isfps is actually used more than they're se and its much more relevant to understanding them as its an introverted type. Tertiary ni in these two types is just focused through a filter, much like the se of an entj is filtered through ni. An isfp or istp uses ni almost identically to an ni dom but they arent SATISFIED with ideas alone, they need it to be somehow relevant to the current moment, something thats actually possible. So an isfps ni looks like trying to achieve an idealistic state of being, usually believing that who you decide to be and what you "want" is a reflection of your honest true self. An istp may be a bit less abstract but more or less the same. They can be extremely single minded in what they want, but they dont care about achievement or results as much as they value possibility and the idea of being able to visualize something. I feel istps and isfps have an even better sense of when soemthing isnt consistent or likely to pan out than higher ni users, theyre ni is grounded and strictly in service of they're other functions 100% of the time. They dont use it "sometimes" when they "need to" its not a tool box, its YOU. Your functions are not cards you possess, they are active processes taking place every waking moment or even when your dreaming. Even when your unconscious of it it goes on. This notion of using one function "more" than another and that determining your stack needs to end. It used to be that simple, but as we've developed it and understood it more as a community its become more specific and yung literally INTENDED for this. He literally was planning on having each type have 8 functions and thats where socionics comes from (i dont like socionics) i believe specifically tertiary ni users are the BEST example of being more able to tap into the unconscious than other types, studying them more and giving them more attention is something id really really appreciate. Isfps specifically are an anomaly, and istps are probably the most complex and interesting type ive ever studied.
wow what sources did you study from this is really interesting
@@nicoleonlysometimes824 the same sources as everyone else. I just didnt only interpret the parts i liked like most content creators on the subject. I mostly read two books by carl jung, and by talking with hundreds of members of the community we've slowly kind of headed in this direction as yung intended us to do. The system wasnt complete, it was a pet project for carl, something to convey a much larger and more useful idea, an idea many members of the community seem to ignore entirely. The whole unconscious mind thing and all it entails, this is just a useful way to apply that idea to the various aspects of the self. I feel like it could really help people not define or limit themselves, but to learn to free the parts of themselves they didnt even know where being abused and neglected. It really is a self love process and a way to directly act on it... but the idea that functions are in order by frequency of use was kind of made up by people over time and its proven itself to outright not work in any tangible way.
So much info, I'll need to return to this
Im an isfp btw. Sometimes i pretend to be an intj so people listen to what i have to say.
Why ISFP are an anomaly?
What do you think about INFP?
i was actually doubting myself being an infp because with others, im quite realistic and i care about the little details. but i spend my night daydreaming and imagining random things
This is amazing! It totally describes me too! I will always somehow circle a conversation back to empathy and emotions and human behavior or something~ (INFJ)
From a young age, I learned that the concept of “go with the flow,” or “embrace the chaos” to be THE best advice you can teach to a highly Ni person. It teaches them to let go of anxiety and to become more confident with themselves no matter what the situation they may face.
Now, that I’m older, I have no problem with randomness that life throws at me. I rather enjoy it, really. My Se eats it up.
Anyhow, first function Ni is kinda weird to have. I use it for everything, sometimes without realizing it too.
Just several weeks ago, I had a dream where I was playing a song on the piano. So I woke up 3 in the morning thinking, I should write the musical composition down… because you know, I will definitely forget it by 7 am later.
Too bad my lazy butt didn’t feel like getting out of bed. Lol since now, I forgot the entire song altogether.
Can please do one on building sensory functions for intj and infj? Really needed because sometimes end up being absent minded while avoiding the sensory world 🥺
-intj
Loved to "hear" that Tommy and you enjoyed the "Get Back" together. My face like: 😁😁 Greetings. Peter Jackson is director so it rlly must be like "standing next to all of them." O-tone only. 👂🏻👂🏻
Lol! For all my work life I always say all career and dating seeking is the same thing.
I'm an INFP and I totally relate to what Multitudes has stated. When writing though I feel that I often think too much on getting it perfect and then not wanting to share it in fear that it's not good enough. That aside, my comment is actually about an INFJ friend that does exactly what Frank says and circles back to some abstract thought when giving advice. I don't write it off but put it in the back of my mind as a maybe. It just struck me as funny when Frank shared that.
As an ENTP, I can really relate to this whole "people don't understand what the heck I'm talking about" thing. And since I also talk about science fiction 89% of the time, it really confuses people. Also I can relate to the "reluctance" of doing like, extremely organized things such as, I don't know, filing a paper for school or something, or taking like an exam that makes you explain stuff in less then like, 30 words. It's hard.
As an INTJ and having a good hold of my Fi, I do enjoy, in addition to the countless use of Ni everywhere in my life, in also planning and setting new principles for myself so that I don't act in a way that's against what I value to be the authentic myself in (almost imaginary) scenarios. It has worked well for me. I don't like surprise reactions from myself to life, and will be in existential crisis if I had to do something like that.
ESTJ here to confirm that you nailed this. My auxiliary extraverted intuition comes out as off-beat humor and sudden bursts of dad-jokes!
I love being an ENFP
Really like this video. FJ you seem more relaxed here. I felt like a friend was explaining MBTI to me and I was patiently listening and taking mental notes. 🙂
I know INFJs might have struggles and not show them, so I hope you were genuinely feeling good while filming the video.
All the best to you! ☺️
This INFJ gasped and clutched his imaginary pearls at being so understood here.
Introverted intuition is that guy/girl in your head that never stops talking. It constantly draws lines between dots or paints whole pictures and talks, talks about those dots, lines, colors, vibes, similarities, from this very point to far distance.
- INTJ
Wow nailed it so badly that it feels like sorcery, Frank... This was scary, truly, also insanely reassuring in a way because I finally hear an explanation for something I thought was a monstrous flaw (well it still kinda is xD) all along.. But a least now I know the _why_ behind it. I'm not religious but bless you, Frank! You are helping people fr.
It might be weird when an intuitive talks to someone else about abstract things. Another weird thing I've found mind blowing is that some people will actually talk to you for extended periods of time about physical objects. Boards, nails, walls, pipes, things like that, and their measurements... and quantities. When you talk to an INFP about stuff like that it's very hard for us to survive the conversation. Like you mention types that talk about things that are concrete, some people will actually talk about concrete itself, the material. And not at work either, for fun.
INFJ, last week:
went to the laundrette. put the laundry in machine #5. Went to the automat, paid the wrong number, #6. Unable to create the right thought, I also paid #6. Left the laundrette. 30 seconds later, my mind went: "Darn, I should have put the laundry in #6."
Another thing is often, if you prepare to buy something and the price is not the price in my head, my brain shuts down, I pay and leave the supermarket, unable to explain my behavior.
Reality? I barely survive it.
that explains how some athletes just go and go when their body is getting beat up. They are focused on their goal, not on long term consequences. they are ignoring the "big picture."
I enjoyed this, I hope you will do a similar lesson on sending soon!
Being an intuitive can create unique challenges. Especially when you can quickly figure out that someone has motives that aren’t good but everyone else views the person as wonderful. Over the years, I’ve learned to just let everything play out and others will eventually figure it out. If you say something about the person early on, people assume that you are the jerk.
That used to worry me, but now I just let things play out too. Most people don't listen, or assume you have bad motives for saying something. I do try to get people to connect the pieces they themselves have noticed though, if they are not good at it. It's only in extreme circumstances I will pile in and say 'Whoa' or 'Get out of that right now!' when they more or less need an ambulance crew.
What my intuition has always been good at is picking up 'false' people, those who say one thing but do another, very quickly. Well, I say good, but I do give too many second chances, not many thirds though now. I dislike having such good intuition because it is hard to use for good. Of course most people will just think you are a nutter if you say 'I have bad feelings about this' but don't always have enough concrete evidence to back it up.. In terms of inter-personal relationships, things have improved as we have nicely defined labels for emotional manipulation techniques from psychology which I can use to them, which depersonalises it rather than saying 'Your boy/girlfriend is treating you badly' (vague and subjective), I can say read up on gaslighting, breadcrumbing, coercive control etc.
INFPs have a few more advantages that INFJs in their cognitive functions being more balanced in favour of balancing themselves, rather than what is outside themselves. What is interesting is the J in INFs is actually perceiving, and the P in INFPs is more a judging function I know I, as an INFJ, perceive things more than judge, as it has always seemed to me. I think extroverted feeling sometimes trips me up because I feel sorry for people who have no ethics, but I perceive that they are bad to have around, rather than judge them on stricter terms. INFJs are more tolerant of others, but this does not mean they are weak. Offend their sense of values and that door will slam on you pretty quickly. I perceive the world around me very well, in a visual sense, but the way it works (people, routines, expectations) doesn't make much sense to me, perhaps because there is a lack of logic in how those things work.
When I say 'lack of logic' I mean for someone who bases systems on how people feel and can fit in rather than the most efficient, cost effective but impersonal and demeaning!
@@angelatewson8202 I can relate. I’m an ENTJ but barely E. I have a similar situation of feeling sorry for people behaving badly because that usually comes from a place of insecurity. I had an employee once who was dealing with a very difficult person. I told my employee we should feel sorry for that person because they are probably insecure. My employee responded “Are you kidding me?” 😂🥲. That’s empathy though and ignoring the grumbly ones many times works. It’s those people that act as sweet as candy but have motives that aren’t good but no one seems to see it. I’m a Christian so I pray for those people and my own attitude but it’s definitely hard to sit and watch the show. It amazes me when people around seem to not ever figure it out though. 🤷🏼♀️
I am infj and I must say that my intuition is quite good 😁
"Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there" Owl City's song The Real World.
Whoop! I've just realised why I've moved from enfp/tp to infp/tp.... my function stack! I guess (😅) I've learned to access my less dominant preferences over time... thanks for the FJ enlightenment Frank 😊 (in both senses!).