'I like entheos answer because you learn so much more watching people than you would ever learn just knowing their type.  My son married an INFP. I don't ask her what her preferences are, I watch...|||When an INFP is excitedly animated, there is a deeply felt conviction about whatever they are saying.   If you are a catalyst for this kind of excitement in an INFP, they can't help but love you...|||Interesting story. Is she an introvert?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xhVxpx7aCQ   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu4xpDuf84A|||An interesting insight to idealization...  Defense Mechanisms V: Idealization|||I'm very glad you shared your experience. I was hoping to hear from others about this tendency.  As for astrology in general, I'm not sure what to think.  What is consistent about it is shared...|||I very much agree with this. I don't even make any conscious effort to experience this read on people, it's just there all the time.  My friend, Aelthwyn, is a Gemini if I'm not mistaken. What...|||I was at first going to say that those friendships represent a true connection of some kind while those where we hide ourselves are unlikely to be any good in the long run. Okay, there, I did say it....|||The responses above are good ones and they all hover around one single truth. Nothing you're presently doing in your life at this time has stirred a passion in you. There are things that will in...|||floatingpoint As a 9, I also appreciate the writeup!|||I haven't found one I enjoyed. The benefits of a book are:  You can skip around more easily. The tone of the book is a subjective thing and I don't appreciate a reader interpreting the tone and...|||I think we might be the same person after reading this. Very interesting that your list is so similar. I particularly like:  I still cringe over embarassing moments in my past and say out loud...|||A good kisser will have you forget about what you're doing and have you feeling like the greatest joy and pleasure has just come into your life.  I have been told many times that I am a good kisser...|||Question: if you could be granted the absolute 100% truth about any unsolved mystery in our world, which mystery would you choose to know about?     Monadnock,  Great question...  What is the...|||Why do we assume that the answers lie outside of ourselves and our own experiences? Why do we expect experts to lead the way in life? Why do we remain spectators rather than participants in life? ...|||As an INFP and an experienced online dater as well as having had the MOST awkward first date in my youth, I just can't get enough of the awkwardness of first meetings/dates.  While they are...|||You need a reason to strive. If you are comfortable, you obviously do not need to work right now (which is really not true in the long run). You don't need to develop functioning as this MBTI thing...|||I read all up to here and this one gets my vote for biggest pet peeve.  Seriously, what does forcing everyone to join in this song prove? It's a most curious practice.|||Mirroring is an action word and has to do with aping the behavior of another person. While it does often manifest itself as a mirroring of that other person, I can intuitively and accurately feel...|||Perhaps your motivation has changed. What inspired you in the past was a journey of self discovery that is part of the maturing process.  What is your primary motivation to create now? If you...|||INFP Sr.|||I feel that the output from my hobbies speak volumes about who I am and that showing others what I produce saves me the trouble of explaining who I am.  One of my favorite books is The Fountainhead...|||More specifically, yet still a generalization: In real life, only a process of final causation—i.e., the process of choosing a goal, then taking the steps to achieve it—can give logical continuity,...|||Knowledge of yourself improves with age and that's why old people seem insistent and stubborn. They are fighting the subtle pressure in society to conform and want to remain true to themselves.|||I tend to see the people born under the mutable astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, as most chameleon-like. Being a chameleon throughout my life has caused me to have an...|||I don't finish many books. But the ones I have finished were outstanding.  The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. My Antonia and Oh Pioneers both by Willa...|||I know this is an old post, but I found I could very much relate to it.  I also starting thinking what is meant by someone getting into our heads. Again I can relate to this.  What I have...|||I think the greatest satisfaction comes from hands on work. Why? Because you are in control of every aspect of production and your talents shine when you do it right (not someone else's as in the...|||Guitarist for Paul McCartney Tours... Admits he's an introvert forced out of his shell. Good interview.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ZO2li1g08|||Why don't you simply realize that what works for extroverts (like the gym) doesn't work to make introverts happy and go from there. After all, that's the great benefit of knowing your type.  The...|||I even feel this way about INFPs that post on here.|||She devised the test because with many women entering the work force for the first time, they wanted a test to better match people to job tasks.|||I don't really like rain. But this is a good idea to post things about it.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iczdtVWaSHE|||Sorry, but the title of this thread reminded me of this...  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TCJJ2ejDfek|||Great musicians...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLVlkm3m7E|||It's important to realize that virtual socializing is no substitute for socializing IRL.  There are quite a few studies that indicate that virtual socializing leads to depression and feelings of...|||By the time I read all replies, I couldn't remember the original question.  Something about a person's value.  Is this the same as, why are we here on this earth? What is the meaning of life? ...|||I attract the desperately lonely type. Show them a little polite respect and they stalk you in subtle and sometimes not so subtle ways.  The loneliest people are those who have no close family...|||I have been focussing lately on trying to get more of an understanding of what Jung's original thinking was regarding types. I'm getting a better appreciation for the ambiguity he was satisfied to...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfkppPnHafU|||I have a daughter in law who tested INFP in college. She's also a fire sign like me so we get along quite naturally. She has fit in well with me and my fire sign daughter as well.  I think that...|||I can certainly relate to this. I'm in my 50s and love what the OP has to say above.  But one of the things I was always aware of in my lifetime was that I was born to be a student of life and a...|||Early Pink Floyd before the Alan Parsons Project... Go David Gilmore! Echoes (from Meddle LP 1971)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfJtuvAXJfg|||Would it change anything that you're doing now if you knew? That is really the issue. BTW, a funeral director friend of mine said, If you want to know when you'll die, just call your life insurance...|||For INFPs, I would think that the most important experience is of close connections. This means closest friends and family members.  It's not what you're experiencing that's nearly as important as...|||Okay. Maybe this is something. (i'm not sure what synchronicity is.)  I keep bottles of windshield washer in my trunk. Every time I go into the trunk, I think, I really ought to check the level of...|||Good stuff...   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmd98J8DjzA|||The pioneers of electronic music...   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFkdI7jffhI|||There's a remarkable difference between INFP, which is a way to categorize people generally by cognitive functioning, and the desire and need to work. Working for others requires a motivation. That...|||I have struggled with anger issues throughout my life. The issue has been that I waited too long to show my displeasure with something going on around me. I found that I needed to be more in touch...|||I happened upon this woman on youtube and I love her albums... Diane Arkenstone Echoes of Egypt.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZg4VRJXZFk'