True. As an INFP, whenever people project their behaviors, I go into a deep journey onto thinking about their unresolved traumas, childhood traumas, things that bother them or make them happy and what caused them to be like that. Sometimes it oddly makes me learn to love them very quickly within hearing their stories which people find odd. I even became really good at typing strangers/family/friends to understand why they function/behave like this or like that.
My INFP super power is seeing the world from the outside, as if I were from another planet. Most people have a hard time seeing what's before their eyes because they've been brainwashed by society since infancy. But INFPs always go deep.
That's the absolute truth. We think independently in a complex way seeing from many different sides and scenarios and we know the real truth and will speak out quite forcefully when we see injustice for we know the honest truth from the depths of our soul.
Hmm… 29 year old INFP over here, I don’t notice myself thinking much in terms of stories exactly, but I do consider my unconditional love for love and nature to be something of a superpower~
I knew my daughter-in-law and son were coming over to tell me they were expecting (she was pregnant). No one told me or hinted ahead of time. Still, somehow I knew. INFPs just read people, we can get in their heads. Unlike me, my DIL is organized, a planner. They were coming over for dinner to celebrate my birthday. It's not like dinner is a rare event, but for some reason, out of the blue one day, it occurred to me that if I were her, this would be the time to start trying to have a baby. I was so sure about it, I bought a baby blanket online the week before they came to dinner. I thought it would be super cute - like, hi mom, surprise we're expecting a baby...and then it would be my turn - surprise, son, I can't explain it but I just knew, so I got y'all a gift... Which is exactly what happened, exactly how it all went down. The problem - apparently my less than shocked reaction really took the wind out of their sails. They were so sad I didn't jump for joy or cry when they told me. They said even her father cried a little when they told her parents. I was VERY excited (inside) - but the lack of "sudden" outward elation from me truly disappointed them. I actually came away feeling like I failed at my first grandparent duty. How about that!? And it was an NFL blanket - their favorite team! 😕 They didn't care, they were just shocked and sad. So INFP's beware - not everyone wants to hear about our abilities to see the future. I guess if I had done a proper "forecasting" job, I would have played the tape/reel all the way thru to the end to see their disappointment coming... Got too caught up in marveling at my own "knowings" and oohing and ahhing over the prospect of being a grandparent... This world truly exhausts me. Hopefully, I can forgot about a lot of that someday as I see life new again through the eyes of a new little one.
My INFP friend and I often talk about our ability to attract and give unpaid therapy to others haha. This is of course only when we venture outside in the real world. A lot of my long term friendships have come about from being a go to person when someone has an emotional issue and they just feel comfortable sharing intimate information with me that they wouldn't with other people. The idealistic side kicks in, I can decipher a persons strengths and insecurities and help them feel more confident. Unfortunately it is emotionally exhausting so I can only have a limited number of unofficial clients but it feels good to help others through traumas in unorthodox manners.
I'm an INFP and a fiction writer, so literally a storyteller. It's how I make sense of the world and my own experience. I need to make meaning. When I don't, I feel lost and purposeless.
Yes, I feel really bad because I manipulate and lie to others and they never notice that, they think I'm innocent and naive but I'm the opposite, I've just learned to wear a playful mask. I appear bubbly and happy (I can appear as an ENFP) because I don't want to be discovered. That's horrible because I think I'm lying to society at every moment. I always overthink "am I being who I am? Or I'm just pretending to be who I am when in reality I don't even know who I am? And what if I'm nothing but I'm forced to pretend to be something? What if they see my real essence, manipulative, complex and dark?". The only thing that calms me down is the way I behave with my sisters, because is when I feel more myself and I'm allowed to see my real version around people, and I'm calm, funny, easy-going and with strong values.
Yes this could be correct ●I do relate everything to something ●Form connections after connections ●Reconnect the connected dots ●See if there's another way of doing the same thing ●I really really wanna make sense of everything that has happened & try to find it's connection to what may happen ● always look forward to gaining more ideas just from a single spec of information. ● always wanna try new ways of organizing things, which is most of the time perceived as odd ●wanna renovate ●wanna try the new styles made by me. I absolutely feel no desire to conform. Yes I'm different yes I'm me "The things that make me different are the things that make me 'me'. That's everything I remember as of now
Fi definitely has that emotional « alchemy » ; able to give meaning to things, or change the meaning of things (by how one looks at it) that is indeed quite magic. As an INFJ myself I often look at the Fi users as « the resilient types » ; that are often able to « open » human situations many J types would otherwise get stuck in, by giving new perspectives and different ways to board a situation emotionally. Like making the best out of a bad situation, or as Alice in Alice in Wonderland would put it : « then, if life has no meaning, what stops us from making one up ? ». And that’s pretty darn magic in itself. Watching a Fi user « making up » a world of their own when they are in the flow is positively entrancing.
I often have these "superpower"-moments, when people are telling me there problems. I get into a mode where I can switch into there role and can analyze there problems in a clearly and objective way and tell them what to do. In the most cases I find some hint for my life in there.
Infp: liked, commented, and subscribed. As a male dominant fi user I've had a confusing relationship with Fi and reconciling what my own experience with people's description of what Fi is. I don't think I'm any more emotional than anyone else tbh, and it takes me a while sometimes to understand fully what emotions I'm feeling, so i figured i couldn't be an fi user. However, when you describe fi as story mode, that i can relate to. I do this readily, and so powerfully that i can struggle to throw away a stuffed animal i don't actually want just because i sympathize too much with it's 'life' story. And no problem with people watching and improvising a life for every person i see.
Yes! I want to sever the connection between Fi and emotions. With my flow code approach I am showing that all types have emotions, albekt the triggers and emotional associations depend on your type. :)
Dude, so far I've been having a really hard time separating Ti from Fi. I've always identified as an INTP but when I compare the two types side by side something doesn't feel right. I just don't see how I could separate logic and feeling so the question still remains kinda. But the story thing makes so much sense! I've always looked to relate myself to characters in shows, movies and videogames specifically so that I can learn about myself and take them with me. I too have always struggled with throwing away inanimate objects bc I'd 'feel bad for them'. Things are starting to make sense now!
@@zebesiv when i was struggling to understand fi, another male infp once told me that Fi is actually more about suppressing feelings and treating them like thoughts. It made me sense with my experience
@@zebesiv I stopped connecting Fi to feelings a long time ago, because it's apparant and obvious to me INTPs have feelings just as much as an INFP, just how an INTP engages their feelings is much more mechanical, systematic, tactical, focused on action, consequence, cost. INFPs engage emotions through storytelling, so character, identity, context, nuance. Similarly, INFPs can be very logical, but especially in their use of and crafting of stories and understanding of character and intent, while INTPs tend to manifest more logic when solving tasks, puzzles and managing cost and planning actions.
I think, when he is talking about listening to stories and telling stories that he is referring to our ability to go beyond the surface of a person or matter and see the underlying story. That we actually search for that and then internalize it, if we find it of value. Not that we constantly read stories and tell stories, not necessarily. Thank you for you comment, Audrey Weigel
I believe my greatest superpower is the ability to listen intently to someone telling me about an experience or a feeling surrounding an event, and my ability to find just the right nuanced word or phrase that answers what they were trying to describe. Many people have told me how amazed they were at that ability. The inner knowing of a wide range of emotions and the incredible amount of variety in them is like having an instrument inside of me. When I listen and give myself to the conversation, the person I’m hearing is actually doing the playing. Then I voice the music I heard played in their story. Listening to music that I love has the same effect…..like my emotions are being played. I can effect one person at a time, granted. But, that person leaves our chat time knowing I understood them. It brings me lots of joy!
I'am beyond words right now (and that's really saying something!)...#StorytellingNetwork. INFPs, we are the Epic-esque within the Epic-adventures. Trust this!
Infp , raised by two practicing Catholic ISFP. My parents I consider the perfect parents… now that I’m older. By 12 I contemplated suicide I was so depressed. They always told me I thought wrong, and they always asked me to explain, I tried and I tried still I would get hit by the train of their thought. All things were my fault. I thought how could this be ? This is what I was taught. It was easiest to explain nothing and follow their schedules, the thing is it didn’t make me feel like an individual. I was forced to do so many things, I over extended myself to others and always took on more. Eventually once everyone got what they wanted I was quickly ignored and forgot. This must be my spot 6 feet in the ground. After I listened to Erik Thor I began to turn it around!
Little hobbits…Lol…yeah 💕 I feel my ability to see beauty and love in everything and everyone is my superpower. I deeply love the “flawed” 💖 I love your INFP videos the most 🌸
Here to not throw off the argorythum 😆❤️ I’ve been too isolated lately and feel lonely and I feel seen when you talk about us. ❤️ it’s nice to be appreciated even if it’s not directly. ❤️🌼
Spot on understanding of the INFP brain. I wish everyone understood our cognitive processing the way you do. I often know what is truth and what is not through multiple layers of cataloguing experiences, from reading, and from the deep, intense, focused, deliberate pursuit of truth. You're right, I decode truths in all areas of life. Also, I have multiple, multiple evidences to support my beliefs. It is interesting to talk to my INTJ brother who postures himself as knowing more than he does. It is unfortunate that he is unwilling to give credit to an INFP's inherent "super powers". I will add, though, that an INFP will do well to balance feeling with thinking because some INFPs can bleed feeling at the expense of objective data and analysis. Just a thought. Thanks for the content, and your vernacular is outstanding!
You strike so much so true. It helps my INFP to be reminded I do have a path, and purpose(s). It can be discouraging to be "out there" but should never be devalued! Thanks😊🦋🌿🌹
Amazing, as an INFP I'm attempting to carve a living from my story creating nature, helping others through their own story and using my intuition to create story to help heal others. I always marvelled at those who were good DMs in role playing. One who ad lib, easily creates story and circumstances naturally yet is fair to all characters and helps guide the formation of the story or game occuring to circumstances and outcomes. Anyhow this vid is very valuable thank you and confirming I'm on the right path while the rest of the world, as you mentioned, is often logic driven or science minded. Thank you.
I think the word I relate to for this concept of stories is “personality”. To know and to delve into personalities and what makes them tick, but also to employ symbology and metaphors to the human experience, for the purposes of not only learn about the world but also to teach, to convey, and to express deeper meanings. Poetry does this. Reading peoples poetry in order to learn more about that person on a deeper level than what you knew abt them before. For example, Emily Dickinson- I read it to find out more about who she was as a person- her character and what was important to her personally. Art can also be about symbols and metaphors. The characters provide a way of connecting to humanity and learn deeper meanings. Interpretation of symbols also uses an intuitive process where you are linking up all of the different meanings of things that you saw in the past, and maybe this leads to new insights you’ve never had before, sometimes the new insights pop out of the blue. Stories provide a way to connect to the deeper aspect of humanity.
When I was younger I was constantly reading books. I walked in traffic reading a book like people now do with their phones 😁 As I've grown older I watch TV series instead but I get so sucked in to the stories that it feels like the characters are almost in my own life. When somebody dies in a series I cry my eyes out and when people find love I cry because I'm so happy for them. When I'm not watching I sometimes think about how the characters are doing and imagine mysel in their position. Currently I'm having a hard time concentrating on working because I start thinking about things that have happened in my life or imagining how things could have gone if some details would have been different. I am working from home and I'm alone here so quite often I talk to myself and explain these things out loud like I would be telling someone about my life. These stories might take like half an hour because I always have to explain the whole background before I can actually get to the actual point. I have a lot of diaries from when I was younger that I also love to read to get more details of past events that I can share with myself. Sometimes my friends as well though but these stories are also never-ending 😅 So I guess that's how stories are present in my life.
Tra tutti i vari commenti che ho letto con i quali posso in parte relazionarmi, questo è quello che mi rispecchia di più...Proprio oggi mi sono messa a raccontare ad alta voce (ovviamente ero da sola 😅) alcune mie considerazioni molto profonde sul periodo che sto vivendo attualmente...e poi mi sono persino stupita quando, guardando l’orologio, mi sono accorta che stavo parlando già da un’ora quando in genere parlare è una cosa che mi stanca talmente tanto che ho sempre pensato di non essere in grado di farlo 🤣🤣🤣
This video is really thought provoking, thank you! I am a nurse, and I use stories, analogies, and metaphors all the time to educate patients. I find that thinking about things in terms of stories helps me to understand difficult concepts (although I try to keep in mind that stories and metaphors are just models of a situation, and "all models are wrong, but some are useful."). I am now thinking about how to use this to improve my communication in general. I have come to realize recently that I don't always express myself in a way that's easy to understand.
Im a mental health worker, i use my story telling to great effect, also art therapy. Telling a story is better than telling people in a direct manner what they dont know or what they need to do, as it saves their dignity The point im making by telling the story may drop for the person sometime later, days, week, months just when they need its lesson. I don't have qualifications in story telling or art therapy. I also have done qualitative research, which involves interviewing a small number of people at lenght, and then writing up the emerging patterns and directions. It's rather simple, just understanding human nature is all that's required because it never changes, although at points in history it can get darker but also lighter.
For me, stories emerge as I take in what is before me and compare it to the feelings emanating from the persons or situations I am experiencing. That tension between what something or someone claims to be and what actually seems to be prompts me to imagine stories that might explain those discrepancies. As a younger INFP, I tended to assume that the stories I told myself were true. I now know to confirm those stories.
I used to work at a non profit where my job required me to do in home assessments with people who were challenged by major mental Illness and were sometimes living in homeless shelters. Listening to them, and being able to find the word they were struggling to find to describe a feeling they had, was my superpower. Vulnerable people, living on the edge, found me to be the trustworthy connection between the office and themselves. They knew I understood them and could short circuit difficulties they may have had with other agencies. It may sound small, even a very short chat with them….. but it made a huge difference in their lives and ability to trust that I would do my very best.
Thank you, Erik! I do believe you have finally pinpointed my type. I had been struggling between 2 MBTI personality types, INFP being one, and now you have hit the hammer on the head for me finally. I have been struggling for so many years trying to figure me out and now I have a home plate to start at. Now, I just need I figure out how to be relatable to other. Really, from the bottom of my heart the sincerest thanks. You can call me Rebecca
I wanted to react, read 'unconditional love for love' in an another reaction, was baffled for a few minutes, because I too felt that one. Then I remembered your question (even though I'm still like 'what do I even have to add?), about eh... superpower? I mainly use my favorite functions to understand better the people I love. Furthermore, I try literal storytelling to share my own experiences and the knowledge I gained from those experiences (and if I'm ballsy enough to really dream, make some people feel understood if they're going through something similar)
Also I am writing, have been putting it together most of my adult life- the story. It may be fictional partially autobiographical. My kids know all my stories lol. 😄 They end up writing it for me if I don’t hurry up!
Mom says I was born early And doctors took me away I could not be touched Or learn how to feel I was a steal This can’t be real Lay me on steel Just could hear words that they say I was alive they were lying Stuck me with needles Put me In a bubble I was crying Asking for answers It was me told I was lying Why can’t anyone see Why soo much denying I was lost at birth Knew nothing Not dead Taken away on bed I refused all that was said I’m alive I’m a survivor Broke free from the shackles And sent home how I loved it Until I felt dead In my head Is it me Or what is said I’m a kid I listened always And did what I did Pretend I knew nothing For all things I did Was a sin I don’t know where to begin 38 years I tried and learned And cared Over came all the fear And Hid all the tears If I’m constantly winning Why am I at the rear and see the beginning and wha is near That I fear I just want you to hear So you know me Like I know you Its hard to say I thought you could see I’ve been trying to show you I see the facts I speak the truth Can’t remember the facts That I know are used as a mask I refused to wear a mask or get Vaxxed I was told to relax I did Why are soo many people vaxxed? Or say screw it all, you can do it you don't need shit to get it done, just get it done kick ass take names don't forget to eat and drink don't go insane unless sane and insane is the same to your name not for fame🐍 but for gain like the mane of the game that's a lion 🦁 that's your main 💪🏼📲🤓 you are not tame, don't take the blame, K just beat the game, and sign your name, put it in a frame, hang it up in your brain , don’t be afraid, your walls won’t cave, just ride the wave, and free the slaves, now that’s a save, and what’s its name, it is brave! 40 year infp that struggled with all things till I was 38.
I use storytelling to translate my dreams into plans and plan my projects in life ahead, and indeed gamify it by making small achievable steps. Storytelling helps me make sense of bad things that happened and not fall into victimhood but instead move on strong and see these events as details in the big picture. Not the smartest, not the strongest, but moving forward, like a determined and resilient turtle.
I love you Eric, watch your videos all the time and they are great! I’ve learned so much and love you accent too. Lmao over your pronouncement of “legends” (sounds like leggings rhyming with jeggins which are pants) but I know what you are saying.😂 Dontlose what from my perspective, being American, your accent. But the content here is so right on , I’m an INFP. 👏💕👍
Perfect content! 🙏 I came up with an idea to bocome a story teller at age of 48. I'm just a fool and not good at anything, but the story telling is amazingly easy for me. I hope I could write screenplays for Disney. I created "Nemo 3" to be given them aw a gift.
This is a response to your short about us messing up your algorithm. I have heard your call and I personally take responsibility to assist in your endeavors. Just keep in mind... You asked for this 👁👄👁
What up Erik - hope all is good man! Hey so a tip: I have the same Yeti mic as you’re using here, and although the placement you have seems more natural for it, the best direction for it is talking directly into its side (mic straight up or down) opposite of those buttons on the back. So it sounded good, but you can get it better by just pushing the top straight up from how it’s sitting like you have it. Great video per usual 🤙 Sean
@@ErikThor I actually just took all last week off for vacation. Joyce Meng reached out yesterday for a video with Sherman and Leon as like an INFP creator video (sounds fun) and I told her the same thing but apparently that’s setup for later next month soooooo I’m pretty open at your convenience next week.
I don't know why you have to pit INFJ against INFP. I'm INFJ and some of my closest friends throughout my life have been INFP. The insights I've gotten from other diplomat types are invaluable.
The older I get the more I notice my potential to outsmart people and manipulate. I make them characters of my story and they usually act accordingly to what I made up. It makes me sad sometimes to be able to predict so many things people will do because the mystery of Life is not so much of a mystery anymore...so plain boring, so shallow, so ordinary.
I find the same & am also older. I notice that people communicate using phrases that have been beaten to death, which is probably why predictive text has become possible. We are quite predictable. I found my stories very useful in a big open plan office where I could hear everything that was going on. I noticed that our manager always tended to zoom in on someone who was challenging authority, whose skills were in question or whose face she didn't like. The moral of the story was not to attract her attention & if I did, to hope and pray that someone else would do something wrong to draw the attention away from me. Being INFP helped a lot with understanding dynamics and I was a lot less reactive than many of my colleagues.
I have too strongly disagree... Firstly Jesus was a INFP....story book? What ????...my TE is not the lead But Thinking quickens this process through this subconscious recollection we had to solve what is about to happen...I have intuition that flys in behind,over under,...my accuracy would make me a sniper sharpshooter....I don't talk about it I watch it unfold...when you get as old as me , wisdom is key...knowledge, logic and the patterns at hand...puts me were the I need to be before I need to be there..hindsight is always 20/20 being in the moment of flow is the way to go. Sorry I know you are doing your best to make a difference...and you do...this guy below me say we manipulate? We are masters ???No no no,we do things ourselves if we are not helping others we are the ones who can do anything.... accomplish anything...I abhor mechanical details and computations..not my forte but if it saves my family consider it done.....but it is a waste of my talent...I am not a passive INFP I try to be a light
INFPs are often late bloomers, and get better with time. From my perspective, of what are INFP usual traits, like strengths and weaknesses: th-cam.com/video/4SI27QcrlCg/w-d-xo.html
ENFP who have mastered his INFJ shadow backbone perfectly, so simply one can say he has achieved ultimate goal of self awareness journey "true-higher-mature-omnipotent" version of his mind. Jung called it process of unconscious mastery- "individuation" Many religions and spiritual practices call it process of "enlightenment" Erik is enlightened version of himself now. He is the one, people can look up, he is the true inspirer.❤
True. As an INFP, whenever people project their behaviors, I go into a deep journey onto thinking about their unresolved traumas, childhood traumas, things that bother them or make them happy and what caused them to be like that. Sometimes it oddly makes me learn to love them very quickly within hearing their stories which people find odd. I even became really good at typing strangers/family/friends to understand why they function/behave like this or like that.
That's a beautiful walk🌹
As an INFP, this is a superpower I value very deeply
My INFP super power is seeing the world from the outside, as if I were from another planet. Most people have a hard time seeing what's before their eyes because they've been brainwashed by society since infancy. But INFPs always go deep.
That's the absolute truth. We think independently in a complex way seeing from many different sides and scenarios and we know the real truth and will speak out quite forcefully when we see injustice for we know the honest truth from the depths of our soul.
Hmm… 29 year old INFP over here, I don’t notice myself thinking much in terms of stories exactly, but I do consider my unconditional love for love and nature to be something of a superpower~
I feel you on the unconditional love, I truly love everyone ❤️
Same.
@@ErikThor I believe it. So since you said you aren't really INFJ, are you really INFP? 🤗
I knew my daughter-in-law and son were coming over to tell me they were expecting (she was pregnant). No one told me or hinted ahead of time. Still, somehow I knew. INFPs just read people, we can get in their heads. Unlike me, my DIL is organized, a planner. They were coming over for dinner to celebrate my birthday. It's not like dinner is a rare event, but for some reason, out of the blue one day, it occurred to me that if I were her, this would be the time to start trying to have a baby. I was so sure about it, I bought a baby blanket online the week before they came to dinner. I thought it would be super cute - like, hi mom, surprise we're expecting a baby...and then it would be my turn - surprise, son, I can't explain it but I just knew, so I got y'all a gift... Which is exactly what happened, exactly how it all went down. The problem - apparently my less than shocked reaction really took the wind out of their sails. They were so sad I didn't jump for joy or cry when they told me. They said even her father cried a little when they told her parents. I was VERY excited (inside) - but the lack of "sudden" outward elation from me truly disappointed them. I actually came away feeling like I failed at my first grandparent duty. How about that!? And it was an NFL blanket - their favorite team! 😕 They didn't care, they were just shocked and sad. So INFP's beware - not everyone wants to hear about our abilities to see the future. I guess if I had done a proper "forecasting" job, I would have played the tape/reel all the way thru to the end to see their disappointment coming... Got too caught up in marveling at my own "knowings" and oohing and ahhing over the prospect of being a grandparent... This world truly exhausts me. Hopefully, I can forgot about a lot of that someday as I see life new again through the eyes of a new little one.
My INFP friend and I often talk about our ability to attract and give unpaid therapy to others haha. This is of course only when we venture outside in the real world. A lot of my long term friendships have come about from being a go to person when someone has an emotional issue and they just feel comfortable sharing intimate information with me that they wouldn't with other people. The idealistic side kicks in, I can decipher a persons strengths and insecurities and help them feel more confident. Unfortunately it is emotionally exhausting so I can only have a limited number of unofficial clients but it feels good to help others through traumas in unorthodox manners.
I'm an INFP and a fiction writer, so literally a storyteller. It's how I make sense of the world and my own experience. I need to make meaning. When I don't, I feel lost and purposeless.
Hello sir, may I ask what kind of fiction? Do you have a website? As an INFP, do you market yourself well?
INFP's are skilled at manipulation, super creative & hardworking
Yes, I feel really bad because I manipulate and lie to others and they never notice that, they think I'm innocent and naive but I'm the opposite, I've just learned to wear a playful mask. I appear bubbly and happy (I can appear as an ENFP) because I don't want to be discovered. That's horrible because I think I'm lying to society at every moment. I always overthink "am I being who I am? Or I'm just pretending to be who I am when in reality I don't even know who I am? And what if I'm nothing but I'm forced to pretend to be something? What if they see my real essence, manipulative, complex and dark?". The only thing that calms me down is the way I behave with my sisters, because is when I feel more myself and I'm allowed to see my real version around people, and I'm calm, funny, easy-going and with strong values.
Yes this could be correct
●I do relate everything to something
●Form connections after connections
●Reconnect the connected dots
●See if there's another way of doing the same thing
●I really really wanna make sense of everything that has happened
& try to find it's connection to what may happen
● always look forward to gaining more ideas just from a single spec of information.
● always wanna try new ways of organizing things, which is most of the time perceived as odd
●wanna renovate
●wanna try the new styles made by me.
I absolutely feel no desire to conform.
Yes I'm different yes I'm me
"The things that make me different are the things that make me 'me'.
That's everything I remember as of now
Fi definitely has that emotional « alchemy » ; able to give meaning to things, or change the meaning of things (by how one looks at it) that is indeed quite magic.
As an INFJ myself I often look at the Fi users as « the resilient types » ; that are often able to « open » human situations many J types would otherwise get stuck in, by giving new perspectives and different ways to board a situation emotionally. Like making the best out of a bad situation, or as Alice in Alice in Wonderland would put it : « then, if life has no meaning, what stops us from making one up ? ».
And that’s pretty darn magic in itself. Watching a Fi user « making up » a world of their own when they are in the flow is positively entrancing.
19 year old INFP, I’ve always loved reading, my first experiences with entering a state of flow have been from reading or listening to music.
Same 100%
I often have these "superpower"-moments, when people are telling me there problems. I get into a mode where I can switch into there role and can analyze there problems in a clearly and objective way and tell them what to do. In the most cases I find some hint for my life in there.
YES! this is so accurate, i’m also an infp :)
Exactly. I also found the solution to my problem while I was solving for others
I love your videos ❤
Infp: liked, commented, and subscribed.
As a male dominant fi user I've had a confusing relationship with Fi and reconciling what my own experience with people's description of what Fi is. I don't think I'm any more emotional than anyone else tbh, and it takes me a while sometimes to understand fully what emotions I'm feeling, so i figured i couldn't be an fi user. However, when you describe fi as story mode, that i can relate to. I do this readily, and so powerfully that i can struggle to throw away a stuffed animal i don't actually want just because i sympathize too much with it's 'life' story. And no problem with people watching and improvising a life for every person i see.
Yes! I want to sever the connection between Fi and emotions. With my flow code approach I am showing that all types have emotions, albekt the triggers and emotional associations depend on your type. :)
@@ErikThor thank you
Dude, so far I've been having a really hard time separating Ti from Fi. I've always identified as an INTP but when I compare the two types side by side something doesn't feel right. I just don't see how I could separate logic and feeling so the question still remains kinda.
But the story thing makes so much sense! I've always looked to relate myself to characters in shows, movies and videogames specifically so that I can learn about myself and take them with me. I too have always struggled with throwing away inanimate objects bc I'd 'feel bad for them'. Things are starting to make sense now!
@@zebesiv when i was struggling to understand fi, another male infp once told me that Fi is actually more about suppressing feelings and treating them like thoughts. It made me sense with my experience
@@zebesiv I stopped connecting Fi to feelings a long time ago, because it's apparant and obvious to me INTPs have feelings just as much as an INFP, just how an INTP engages their feelings is much more mechanical, systematic, tactical, focused on action, consequence, cost. INFPs engage emotions through storytelling, so character, identity, context, nuance. Similarly, INFPs can be very logical, but especially in their use of and crafting of stories and understanding of character and intent, while INTPs tend to manifest more logic when solving tasks, puzzles and managing cost and planning actions.
I think, when he is talking about listening to stories and telling stories that he is referring to our ability to go beyond the surface of a person or matter and see the underlying story. That we actually search for that and then internalize it, if we find it of value. Not that we constantly read stories and tell stories, not necessarily. Thank you for you comment, Audrey Weigel
If someone could enter our magical inner world they would be astounded by the experience.🌌💫🌠⭐
I believe my greatest superpower is the ability to listen intently to someone telling me about an experience or a feeling surrounding an event, and my ability to find just the right nuanced word or phrase that answers what they were trying to describe. Many people have told me how amazed they were at that ability. The inner knowing of a wide range of emotions and the incredible amount of variety in them is like having an instrument inside of me. When I listen and give myself to the conversation, the person I’m hearing is actually doing the playing. Then I voice the music I heard played in their story. Listening to music that I love has the same effect…..like my emotions are being played.
I can effect one person at a time, granted. But, that person leaves our chat time knowing I understood them. It brings me lots of joy!
I'am beyond words right now (and that's really saying something!)...#StorytellingNetwork. INFPs, we are the Epic-esque within the Epic-adventures. Trust this!
I’m in infp and an enfp when I need to be . I use introvert and extrovert as tools . Having a balance between both is key .
Infp , raised by two practicing Catholic ISFP. My parents I consider the perfect parents… now that I’m older. By 12 I contemplated suicide I was so depressed. They always told me I thought wrong, and they always asked me to explain, I tried and I tried still I would get hit by the train of their thought. All things were my fault. I thought how could this be ? This is what I was taught. It was easiest to explain nothing and follow their schedules, the thing is it didn’t make me feel like an individual. I was forced to do so many things, I over extended myself to others and always took on more. Eventually once everyone got what they wanted I was quickly ignored and forgot. This must be my spot 6 feet in the ground. After I listened to Erik Thor I began to turn it around!
Little hobbits…Lol…yeah 💕 I feel my ability to see beauty and love in everything and everyone is my superpower. I deeply love the “flawed” 💖 I love your INFP videos the most 🌸
Here to not throw off the argorythum 😆❤️
I’ve been too isolated lately and feel lonely and I feel seen when you talk about us. ❤️ it’s nice to be appreciated even if it’s not directly. ❤️🌼
Thank's for always cheering up the INFP's
Spot on understanding of the INFP brain. I wish everyone understood our cognitive processing the way you do. I often know what is truth and what is not through multiple layers of cataloguing experiences, from reading, and from the deep, intense, focused, deliberate pursuit of truth. You're right, I decode truths in all areas of life. Also, I have multiple, multiple evidences to support my beliefs. It is interesting to talk to my INTJ brother who postures himself as knowing more than he does. It is unfortunate that he is unwilling to give credit to an INFP's inherent "super powers". I will add, though, that an INFP will do well to balance feeling with thinking because some INFPs can bleed feeling at the expense of objective data and analysis. Just a thought.
Thanks for the content, and your vernacular is outstanding!
You strike so much so true. It helps my INFP to be reminded I do have a path, and purpose(s). It can be discouraging to be "out there" but should never be devalued! Thanks😊🦋🌿🌹
Bulls eye!
Really appreciate your time for these.
Your smirk is golden. 👌
Amazing, as an INFP I'm attempting to carve a living from my story creating nature, helping others through their own story and using my intuition to create story to help heal others. I always marvelled at those who were good DMs in role playing. One who ad lib, easily creates story and circumstances naturally yet is fair to all characters and helps guide the formation of the story or game occuring to circumstances and outcomes. Anyhow this vid is very valuable thank you and confirming I'm on the right path while the rest of the world, as you mentioned, is often logic driven or science minded. Thank you.
I think the word I relate to for this concept of stories is “personality”. To know and to delve into personalities and what makes them tick, but also to employ symbology and metaphors to the human experience, for the purposes of not only learn about the world but also to teach, to convey, and to express deeper meanings. Poetry does this. Reading peoples poetry in order to learn more about that person on a deeper level than what you knew abt them before. For example, Emily Dickinson- I read it to find out more about who she was as a person- her character and what was important to her personally. Art can also be about symbols and metaphors. The characters provide a way of connecting to humanity and learn deeper meanings. Interpretation of symbols also uses an intuitive process where you are linking up all of the different meanings of things that you saw in the past, and maybe this leads to new insights you’ve never had before, sometimes the new insights pop out of the blue. Stories provide a way to connect to the deeper aspect of humanity.
Only started watching Matt Sherman recently and i love his way of expressing and explaining things. He really does make me feel better as an INFP.
When I was younger I was constantly reading books. I walked in traffic reading a book like people now do with their phones 😁 As I've grown older I watch TV series instead but I get so sucked in to the stories that it feels like the characters are almost in my own life. When somebody dies in a series I cry my eyes out and when people find love I cry because I'm so happy for them. When I'm not watching I sometimes think about how the characters are doing and imagine mysel in their position.
Currently I'm having a hard time concentrating on working because I start thinking about things that have happened in my life or imagining how things could have gone if some details would have been different. I am working from home and I'm alone here so quite often I talk to myself and explain these things out loud like I would be telling someone about my life. These stories might take like half an hour because I always have to explain the whole background before I can actually get to the actual point. I have a lot of diaries from when I was younger that I also love to read to get more details of past events that I can share with myself. Sometimes my friends as well though but these stories are also never-ending 😅
So I guess that's how stories are present in my life.
Tra tutti i vari commenti che ho letto con i quali posso in parte relazionarmi, questo è quello che mi rispecchia di più...Proprio oggi mi sono messa a raccontare ad alta voce (ovviamente ero da sola 😅) alcune mie considerazioni molto profonde sul periodo che sto vivendo attualmente...e poi mi sono persino stupita quando, guardando l’orologio, mi sono accorta che stavo parlando già da un’ora quando in genere parlare è una cosa che mi stanca talmente tanto che ho sempre pensato di non essere in grado di farlo 🤣🤣🤣
You had me at hobbit
This video is really thought provoking, thank you! I am a nurse, and I use stories, analogies, and metaphors all the time to educate patients. I find that thinking about things in terms of stories helps me to understand difficult concepts (although I try to keep in mind that stories and metaphors are just models of a situation, and "all models are wrong, but some are useful."). I am now thinking about how to use this to improve my communication in general. I have come to realize recently that I don't always express myself in a way that's easy to understand.
I had a really hard week and your authentic warm soul gave me some kind of virtual hug. Thank you for that.
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
This is so accurate and quite pertains to something I've been working on. Thank you!
You are reading me like a book....I'm amazed right now...
What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape
Im a mental health worker, i use my story telling to great effect, also art therapy. Telling a story is better than telling people in a direct manner what they dont know or what they need to do, as it saves their dignity The point im making by telling the story may drop for the person sometime later, days, week, months just when they need its lesson. I don't have qualifications in story telling or art therapy. I also have done qualitative research, which involves interviewing a small number of people at lenght, and then writing up the emerging patterns and directions.
It's rather simple, just understanding human nature is all that's required because it never changes, although at points in history it can get darker but also lighter.
I guess this is why one of my absolute favourite songs is called "storytime"(by the symphonic metal band Nightwish).
For me, stories emerge as I take in what is before me and compare it to the feelings emanating from the persons or situations I am experiencing. That tension between what something or someone claims to be and what actually seems to be prompts me to imagine stories that might explain those discrepancies. As a younger INFP, I tended to assume that the stories I told myself were true. I now know to confirm those stories.
I used to work at a non profit where my job required me to do in home assessments with people who were challenged by major mental Illness and were sometimes living in homeless shelters. Listening to them, and being able to find the word they were struggling to find to describe a feeling they had, was my superpower. Vulnerable people, living on the edge, found me to be the trustworthy connection between the office and themselves. They knew I understood them and could short circuit difficulties they may have had with other agencies. It may sound small, even a very short chat with them….. but it made a huge difference in their lives and ability to trust that I would do my very best.
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Thank you, Erik! I do believe you have finally pinpointed my type. I had been struggling between 2 MBTI personality types, INFP being one, and now you have hit the hammer on the head for me finally. I have been struggling for so many years trying to figure me out and now I have a home plate to start at. Now, I just need I figure out how to be relatable to other. Really, from the bottom of my heart the sincerest thanks. You can call me Rebecca
I wanted to react, read 'unconditional love for love' in an another reaction, was baffled for a few minutes, because I too felt that one. Then I remembered your question (even though I'm still like 'what do I even have to add?), about eh... superpower? I mainly use my favorite functions to understand better the people I love. Furthermore, I try literal storytelling to share my own experiences and the knowledge I gained from those experiences (and if I'm ballsy enough to really dream, make some people feel understood if they're going through something similar)
Also I am writing, have been putting it together most of my adult life- the story. It may be fictional partially autobiographical. My kids know all my stories lol. 😄 They end up writing it for me if I don’t hurry up!
Thank you for these helpful insights!
those meek modest little hobbits haha
i like this description
Mom says I was born early
And doctors took me away
I could not be touched
Or learn how to feel
I was a steal
This can’t be real
Lay me on steel
Just could hear words
that they say
I was alive they were lying
Stuck me with needles
Put me In a bubble I was crying
Asking for answers
It was me told I was lying
Why can’t anyone see
Why soo much denying
I was lost at birth
Knew nothing
Not dead
Taken away on bed
I refused all that was said
I’m alive I’m a survivor
Broke free from the shackles
And sent home how I loved it
Until I felt dead
In my head
Is it me
Or what is said
I’m a kid
I listened always
And did what I did
Pretend I knew nothing
For all things I did
Was a sin
I don’t know where to begin
38 years I tried and learned
And cared
Over came all the fear
And Hid all the tears
If I’m constantly winning
Why am I at the rear and see the beginning and wha is near
That I fear
I just want you to hear
So you know me
Like I know you
Its hard to say
I thought you could see
I’ve been trying to show you
I see the facts I speak the truth
Can’t remember the facts
That I know are used as a mask
I refused to wear a mask or get
Vaxxed
I was told to relax
I did
Why are soo many people vaxxed?
Or say screw it all, you can do it you don't need shit to get it done, just get it done kick ass take names don't forget to eat and drink don't go insane unless sane and insane is the
same to your name not for fame🐍 but for gain like the mane of the game that's a lion 🦁 that's your main 💪🏼📲🤓 you are not tame, don't take the blame,
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just beat the game, and sign your name, put it in a frame, hang it up in your brain , don’t be afraid, your walls won’t cave, just ride the wave, and free the slaves, now that’s a save, and what’s its name, it is brave!
40 year infp that struggled with all things till I was 38.
Well said. Remarkable! I couldn’t of said so better myself. The proof is in the taste!
Catchy
I use storytelling to translate my dreams into plans and plan my projects in life ahead, and indeed gamify it by making small achievable steps. Storytelling helps me make sense of bad things that happened and not fall into victimhood but instead move on strong and see these events as details in the big picture. Not the smartest, not the strongest, but moving forward, like a determined and resilient turtle.
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;
"Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
I love you Eric, watch your videos all the time and they are great! I’ve learned so much and love you accent too. Lmao over your pronouncement of “legends” (sounds like leggings rhyming with jeggins which are pants) but I know what you are saying.😂 Dontlose what from my perspective, being American, your accent. But the content here is so right on , I’m an INFP. 👏💕👍
Perfect content! 🙏 I came up with an idea to bocome a story teller at age of 48. I'm just a fool and not good at anything, but the story telling is amazingly easy for me. I hope I could write screenplays for Disney. I created "Nemo 3" to be given them aw a gift.
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
My ex wife says my super power is unconditional love. I thought that was kind of funny. Of course I am INFP
My INFP superpower is Love
Thanks for sharing these insights about INFPs!
This is a response to your short about us messing up your algorithm. I have heard your call and I personally take responsibility to assist in your endeavors.
Just keep in mind...
You asked for this 👁👄👁
hahaha thanks ;)
I like this the way way this person talking...
What up Erik - hope all is good man! Hey so a tip: I have the same Yeti mic as you’re using here, and although the placement you have seems more natural for it, the best direction for it is talking directly into its side (mic straight up or down) opposite of those buttons on the back. So it sounded good, but you can get it better by just pushing the top straight up from how it’s sitting like you have it.
Great video per usual 🤙
Sean
Hey Sean! Thanks for the feedback! Send me a PM sometime. Would love to talk to ya!
@@ErikThor I actually just took all last week off for vacation. Joyce Meng reached out yesterday for a video with Sherman and Leon as like an INFP creator video (sounds fun) and I told her the same thing but apparently that’s setup for later next month soooooo I’m pretty open at your convenience next week.
thank u for your insights!! love this.. love everything about it... being a story lover and human experiencer
INFP super powder
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
"we cannot explain logically the greenness of grass-"
Science: watch me
Liked the video just because your name is cool
I've been story-telling since I was just a child. :-)
I don't know why you have to pit INFJ against INFP. I'm INFJ and some of my closest friends throughout my life have been INFP. The insights I've gotten from other diplomat types are invaluable.
can you speak more about the default mode network vs task positive network? I never heard of tis but sounds very interesting.
That is the cycle! We often zigzaw between "nobody is at my level" and "i'm too far behind everyone else"
Thank you:)♡.
I’m commenting because I know I’ll forget to at the end of this 😅😆
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
The older I get the more I notice my potential to outsmart people and manipulate. I make them characters of my story and they usually act accordingly to what I made up. It makes me sad sometimes to be able to predict so many things people will do because the mystery of Life is not so much of a mystery anymore...so plain boring, so shallow, so ordinary.
I find the same & am also older. I notice that people communicate using phrases that have been beaten to death, which is probably why predictive text has become possible. We are quite predictable. I found my stories very useful in a big open plan office where I could hear everything that was going on. I noticed that our manager always tended to zoom in on someone who was challenging authority, whose skills were in
question or whose face she didn't like. The moral of the story was not to attract her attention & if I did, to hope and pray that someone else would do something wrong to draw the attention away from me. Being INFP helped a lot with understanding dynamics and I was a lot less reactive than many of my colleagues.
Creating a character is just the beginning, it is there for you to delve into further, it is not a 2 dimensional person, rather it can be deep.
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
A Lot of self adulation, here and everywhere.
😊
💞
I have too strongly disagree... Firstly Jesus was a INFP....story book? What ????...my TE is not the lead But Thinking quickens this process through this subconscious recollection we had to solve what is about to happen...I have intuition that flys in behind,over under,...my accuracy would make me a sniper sharpshooter....I don't talk about it I watch it unfold...when you get as old as me , wisdom is key...knowledge, logic and the patterns at hand...puts me were the I need to be before I need to be there..hindsight is always 20/20 being in the moment of flow is the way to go. Sorry I know you are doing your best to make a difference...and you do...this guy below me say we manipulate? We are masters ???No no no,we do things ourselves if we are not helping others we are the ones who can do anything.... accomplish anything...I abhor mechanical details and computations..not my forte but if it saves my family consider it done.....but it is a waste of my talent...I am not a passive INFP I try to be a light
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INFPs are often late bloomers, and get better with time. From my perspective, of what are INFP usual traits, like strengths and weaknesses:
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Hey Erik, are you an INFP?
Someone in the comments said he's an ENFJ.
i dont think im an enfj hehe 🙃
ENFP who have mastered his INFJ shadow backbone perfectly, so simply one can say he has achieved ultimate goal of self awareness journey "true-higher-mature-omnipotent" version of his mind.
Jung called it process of unconscious mastery- "individuation"
Many religions and spiritual practices call it process of "enlightenment"
Erik is enlightened version of himself now. He is the one, people can look up, he is the true inspirer.❤
Well I think.many infp may have adhd 😅
Little hobbits 🤣
It's like a venom but with time and exploring you will be immune haha