I think that INFPs are the worst at confusing Role and Identity because the idealistic part us wants our roles to be our identity. Everyone plays many roles in the life, but we only have one core identity.
In my daily life, I play several roles: father, husband, employee, blogger, friend, etc. Each of those roles requires a certain set of behaviors to be successful in that role. Also, those roles are transient. I haven’t always been a father and sometime in the future, my role as a son will pass away with my parents.
Our Identity or a better term, our Self, is a not so fleeting. We are who we are and I posit that we have always known who we are. Our Self is an amalgam of our values and beliefs. Our roles are an external manifestation of those values and beliefs.
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