greenfairy
philosopher wood nymph
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INFJ's don't know what they want. True or false? Please discuss.
There are plenty of types that don't know what they want. It's not exclusive to INFJ's.
As a general for INFJ's? I am doubtful to say that it is.
Come on, y'all are lame. 79 views and only two people have an opinion on the matter?
My point exactly. It's not an extremely well thought out idea, just something I was thinking/daydreaming about one day and thought I could make into a funny video; but the gist is Fe. I haven't fully fleshed it out and connected it to INFJ (I don't remember why I did in the first place), but the Fe connection is there; I was hoping some people would talk about feeling the same way so I could get more of an idea of how it works. Anyway, Fi seems to know what it wants more than Fe. Everyone has preferences, but since we define our feelings externally what we want inevitably becomes confused in some respects at some point with what other people want and what we think we should want, and it is easy for us to lose touch with our own personal feelings and what we personally want. Also I feel like even within myself I am composed of numerous selves and many of them want different things, and I wanted to know if other INFJ's felt the same way.^Lol!
I saw this earlier, but it's stated too broadly to even know where to begin- "don't know what they want" can mean so many different things (from food/clothes to the slightly less tangible aesthetic tastes of art/music, or bigger picture wants/goals, etc)- so that's why I passed it up. I find questions this general difficult to answer, because there are so many answers. I considered breaking it down into categories myself. but I don't even think it's the categories that determine how decisive I am so much as the context/situation I am in while needing to make a decision (or rather, in addition to the categories- there's several influences at play here). It's at the mercy of factors like- who is waiting on me to have an opinion (and why), if anyone will be impacted by what I want, is it something I want solely for myself or family or community, etc. I almost feel like I'd have to write a book to correctly answer the question in the op.
I only know one INFJ, my mom, she's always known exactly what she wanted, or at least she does a good job of convincing others that she does.