Continued from How to Understand the INFJ Personality Type: Part 1. Many people find it difficult to understand the INFJ personality type. Even INFJs can find it hard to understand themselves. Here are six ways to help you understand the INFJ personality type. 1. INFJs hate explaining details. If you ask your INFJ how to get from point A to point B, don’t expect an exact answer. Since INFJs rely more heavily on…
Living with an introvert can be fun, but there are some things that extroverts need to understand. This past weekend I met another introvert at one of the last places you would expect two introverts to be — a pub crawl. We were both traveling alone and decided to fight the urge to stay in our hotel rooms binge-watching Netflix and instead go out and socialize with other travelers. We ended up spending a good…
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou INFJ personality types are fairly rational idealists, except when it comes to love. We experience intense feelings and in no other situation do we feel those feelings deeper than when it comes to romantic relationships. Not all INFJs believe that there is only one person out there…
The INFJ personality type makes up only 1-3 percent of the population and is considered to be the rarest of the 16 MBTI personality types. Are you an INFJ or someone who has an INFJ in your life? Here are 8 tips to help you better understand the INFJ personality type. 1. Accept that you will never really understand the INFJ. If it were possible for anyone to 100% understand an INFJ an INFJ…
I started INFJ Blog as a way to offer resources, advice, and relatable content for people who identify as an INFJ personality type. I also wanted to address certain topics more thoroughly than I’m able to on my INFJ Twitter and Tumblr accounts. But even as I sit here writing these words, my mind is full of doubt. Who am I to offer advice for INFJs? Dealing with INFJ doubt is something I…
Within the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types, eight types are Judgers and eight types are Perceivers. Judger personality types like order, plans, and organization, while Perceiver personality types prefer to remain flexible, adaptable, and spontaneous. If these types don’t try to understand each other, the J and P differences can cause several issues at work, in school, and within relationships. Judging Vs. Perceiving Personality Types It’s pretty easy to tell the…
The function that distinguishes INFJs most from our Ni-dom partner, the INTJ, is our Extraverted Feeling function, or Fe. The Extraverted Feeling INFJ description is different from how other types use Fe due to where it falls in the INFJ function stack. Fe is our auxiliary, or secondary, function. The below table shows the cognitive function stack for the INFJ. You can read more about INFJ cognitive functions here. Dominant Auxiliary Tertiary Inferior INFJ…