Comments on: Speaking INFP

By: Rétromantique

Rétromantique — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:42:50 +0000

I believe this is common to all INs (Introverted Intuitive) types, not only INFPs (like Corin says). I’m an INTJ and what’s going on in my head for thought process is pretty much the same.

Explanation:
1) Introversion makes one keep things inside, not expressing them, which explains why the communication is harder and that the person won’t express point B-C.
2) Intuition makes one’s thoughts more abstract than Sensing types. Therefore, they make links in their thoughts which are very “fluid”, if I can say.

The Feeling aspect only affects the nature of the thoughts the person process. I am not a 100% sure of Corin’s point with P vs J affecting this really, although I agree that ” J’s usually have a point where for P’s, the conversation is the point.”

That is my “Rational Mastermind” two-cents

By: Corin

Corin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:58:39 +0000

It’s not so much an INFP thing as it is an N and P thing. I find N’s usually less linear than S’s. I find it non-linear conversations easier with P’s because J’s usually have a point where for P’s, the conversation is the point.

By: Morgain

Morgain — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:31:23 +0000

I had an amazing conversation like that with a person I was dating. We jumped around from topic to topic all night long. It was really crazy. We never finished a topic because we jumped to a relating but totaly different topic before the first topic was finished. We both did it, we both could follow the line of thoughts and we both didn’t mind or tried to get the conversation back to the first topic. I had never done the topic hoping before.
Are there other MBTI types that are really good in it and really like doing it or could I presume that the guy was INFP too?
beside that: great blog!!!!

By: ockhamdesign

ockhamdesign — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:35:41 +0000

All INFPs have commonality that binds us. Even though INFPs may differ in belief systems, we go about externalizing those beliefs in the same way, especially in the way we communicate to others.

By: Glenda

Glenda — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:15:13 +0000

Good lord, its like youve known me my entire life…

By: ockhamdesign

ockhamdesign — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:28:32 +0000

INTJs are a good match for INFPs. Someone has to pay the electric bill on time. I’ve been happily married to an INTJ for 13 years now.

By: D

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:08:26 +0000

I’ve just turned 30 an have just started getting interested in my personality since I’ve started dating about 8 months ago. About three months into dating I was thinking about all kinds of crazyness an a thought came to me about understanding myself to better my relationship with my Girlfriend which is a INTJ( after I’ve took’n the test an told her a few weeks laterwords an she told me that she had taken one years ago but took it again to see if it’s change , but hasn’t.) , so I googled personality and found you could take a test was “WoWed” that they had tests to find out what, who a person was, At first it said I was a INTP but after reading more about that personality an taking another test found out I was/am a INFP, So far the more I read about it (here in the last week or two) the more it fits me (sadly enough. lol) an after reading thist her..it pretty much comfirms it, cause when I try an tell a store tor try to explane something that has happened I all over the place jumping from point A to F back to C than to partially B an so on to where I myself is even lost in the story that “I” was try’n to tell.
Very interesting to read how others deal with it and not just what INFP “are”, This is all a learning process for me after 30 years an just now finding a little of myself.
yer do’n a good job.

By: Jeanine

Jeanine — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:30:39 +0000

I skip around like that all the time. The biggest problem is that after a while, I forget where I started or what point I was trying to make.

And usually my partner is just watching the conversational butterfly fly and doesn’t remember either!

Great blog!!

By: ockhamdesign

ockhamdesign — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:44:41 +0000

I think that’s why I learned the MBTI in the first place. It was a guideline to how to interact with other people. I was an extreme introvert for so long which didn’t matter in high school. It’s a big deal when you move out and can’t interact with people.

The MBTI made it easier. I talk to S’s differently than I talk to N’s.

By: ockhamdesign

ockhamdesign — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:45:49 +0000

That’s where the MBTI typing comes in handy. I can pick out most people’s type from various cues like how they describe events or situations. I usually adjust my conversation style to fit the few STs that I know. Most of the NTs and NFs I know don’t mind the jumping around.