Yes it is. I'm also a pessimistic idealist.
Blasphemy! INFJ! Where is the Spanish Inquisition when you need them?
I did. The play on words was pretty nice.Very good...
Also INFJ will look like the list and smile at the "puns".
Preparing for the worst and expecting the best.
Blasphemy! INFJ! Where is the Spanish Inquisition when you need them?
Bologna. He has a house cat avatar. The real surefire way to identify an INFP.
Blasphemy! INFJ! Where is the Spanish Inquisition when you need them?
Very good list.
For me it's confusing that separating INFJ and INFP from each other would be difficult... Knowing one, I think we differ dramatically.
One big difference you can notice firsthand is the communication style:
INFP: There's one of those new grocery shops.
INFJ: Yeah. I saw a commercial on tv.
INFP: Are you hungry ?
INFJ: Not really. Why?
INFP: Just thought if you might be.
INFJ: Have you eaten anything today?
INFP: No.
INFJ: Do you want to go and buy something from the store?
INFP: Okay.
The way INFPs communicate seems so devious to me It'd take a lot of energy to formulate my communation that way... INFJs are more "take-charge" type and want to be direct (and would want others to be too). You can also notice it in the way the two types speak: INFPs have very soft, almost dream-like, monotonic speech pattern, whereas INFJs can talk with their enthusiasm, speaking faster than even their minds could handle.
INFPs usually look more elegant and their expressions are controlled, they have this almost stoic vibe to them. INFJs don't feel their emotions nearly as passionately nor deeply as INFPs, but you can read their emotional states from their faces and gestures.
INFPs are very private individuals, one of the most self-sacrificing type out there. They think in terms of good and bad and are over-the-top perfectionistic. INFPs don't share their innermost hurts with anyone, they can be excellent councelors to others but they themselves solve their feelings and thoughts best alone.
INFJs on the other hand can talk to the people they feel are worthy of that trust about stuff that bothers them and it helps the INFJ to solve their dilemmas by talking them through. Not talking about their issues will make INFJ ill, making all of it sort of like pile up inside themselves, into their bodies. INFJs need to express their feelings.
INFPs don't pay much attention to their physical states: they may not notice they're hungry or needed to use the toilet or have a stomach ache etc. INFJs are almost hypocondric compared to INFPs: INFJs are very well aware of their physical conditions.
These are a few just more of a behavioural differences I've noticed.
I've been told often that I'm very elegant and stoic looking. Whereas my dad (INFP) dresses and looks plainly, smiles more often, and is much more animated.INFPs usually look more elegant and their expressions are controlled, they have this almost stoic vibe to them.
Nothing could be further from the truth. My emotions are very passionate (overly so, I'd say), however I don't know if they are more or less passionate than any INFP's.INFJs don't feel their emotions nearly as passionately nor deeply as INFPs
That actually sounds a lot like INFJ. Like one INFJ description I've read before, even.INFPs are very private individuals, one of the most self-sacrificing type out there. They think in terms of good and bad and are over-the-top perfectionistic. INFPs don't share their innermost hurts with anyone, they can be excellent councelors to others but they themselves solve their feelings and thoughts best alone.
i am still new to this, but i feel jealous of Fi, i feel like a weatherman instead of person.
i am still new to this, but i feel jealous of Fi, i feel like a weatherman instead of person.
I had to laugh when I read this, because, ummm, this how I talk. Guilty as charged.Very good list.
For me it's confusing that separating INFJ and INFP from each other would be difficult... Knowing one, we differ dramatically.
One big difference you can notice firsthand is the communication style:
INFP: There's one of those new grocery shops.
INFJ: Yeah. I saw a commercial on tv.
INFP: Are you hungry ?
INFJ: Not really. Why?
INFP: Just thought if you might be.
INFJ: Have you eaten anything today?
INFP: No.
INFJ: Do you want to go and buy something from the store?
INFP: Okay.
The way INFPs communicate seems so devious to me It'd take a lot of energy to formulate my communation that way...
I had to laugh when I read this, because, ummm, this how I talk. Guilty as charged.
BTW it's not intentional deviousiness, it's more a desire not to put the other person out. Bare in mind, at least in my case, I'll be almost fainting with hunger at that point, otherwise I wouldn't have broched the subject at all.
I'm very animated so I'm told. Apparently you can see what I'm thinking at any given point. Elegant isn't a word you'd use to describe me, but I have been told when I make the effort I'm snappy dresser.
Also I don't think I'm what could be called stoic, however I kinda forget to eat, drink, (sleep some times), do all those bodily things, unless it's part of my set routine. I've just come realise if I think I'm sick, I usually am...bizarre I know, but you are right I as an INFP don't always know I'm sick.
I have people give me "you've got to take better care of your self" lecture all the time. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some kind of skank or something, I just kinda get lost, run out of time, distracted etc. God, I had an ex go grocery shopping for me, because he was horrified, at what he found in my cupboards! (it was along the lines of 1 can of tomatoes and not much else) And I have people cook me food all the time, which is kinda sweet. It's weird, people that know me well get much more worried about my well being, then I am myself. Seriously, I don't think I'm that much of a train wreck. Although I do burn out spectacularly from work. I probably do work too hard.My INFP boyfriend is horrible about taking care of himself and he has NO excuse! I get so upset with him. He's a Type 1 diabetic and he flakes out on all kinds of things involving healthy self-awareness.
And I laughed at that conversation as well. That's exactly how it plays out. I insist on prying his motives out of him with a verbal crowbar.