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The INFJ Personality Type

The document provides information about the INFJ personality type: INFJs are creative, sensitive individuals who enjoy helping others reach their potential through original solutions. They have a strong ability to intuit others' emotions and motivations. INFJs are private and selective about sharing personal thoughts and feelings. They are guided by strong ideals and values of creating a better world through meaningful connections and respecting authenticity. INFJs can seem quiet but have rich inner complexity and intensity of feeling. They are insightful problem solvers with strong compassion who enjoy mediating disputes and overcoming obstacles through conviction and decisiveness.

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The INFJ Personality Type

The document provides information about the INFJ personality type: INFJs are creative, sensitive individuals who enjoy helping others reach their potential through original solutions. They have a strong ability to intuit others' emotions and motivations. INFJs are private and selective about sharing personal thoughts and feelings. They are guided by strong ideals and values of creating a better world through meaningful connections and respecting authenticity. INFJs can seem quiet but have rich inner complexity and intensity of feeling. They are insightful problem solvers with strong compassion who enjoy mediating disputes and overcoming obstacles through conviction and decisiveness.

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The INFJ Personality Type

INFJs are creative nurturers with a strong sense of personal integrity and a drive to help others realize
their potential. Creative and dedicated, they have a talent for helping others with original solutions to
their personal challenges.

The Counselor has a unique ability to intuit others' emotions and motivations, and will often know how
someone else is feeling before that person knows it himself. They trust their insights about others and
have strong faith in their ability to read people. Although they are sensitive, they are also reserved; the
INFJ is a private sort, and is selective about sharing intimate thoughts and feelings.

What does INFJ stand for?

INFJ is one of the sixteen personality types created by Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers, creators of the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®). INFJ stands for Introversion, iNtuition, Feeling, and Judging, which
are four core personality traits based on the work of psychologist C.G. Jung.

Each of the four letters of the INFJ code signifies a key personality trait of this type. INFJs are energized
by time alone (Introverted), focus on ideas and concepts rather than facts and details (iNtuitive), make
decisions based on feelings and values (Feeling) and prefer to be planned and organized rather than
spontaneous and flexible (Judging).

The INFJ personality type is also called the "Counselor" because of their tendency to be idealistic,
compassionate, and sensitive. Other nicknames for the INFJ include:

 The Insightful Visionary (MBTI)

 The Advocate (16Personalities)

 INFJ Values and Motivations


 INFJs are guided by a deeply considered set of personal values. They are intensely
idealistic, and can clearly imagine a happier and more perfect future. They can become
discouraged by the harsh realities of the present, but they are typically motivated and
persistent in taking positive action nonetheless. The INFJ feels an intrinsic drive to do
what they can to make the world a better place.
 INFJs want a meaningful life and deep connections with other people. They do not tend
to share themselves freely but appreciate emotional intimacy with a select, committed
few. Although their rich inner life can sometimes make them seem mysterious or private
to others, they profoundly value authentic connections with people they trust.
 How Others See the INFJ
 INFJs often appear quiet, caring and sensitive, and may be found listening attentively to
someone else’s ideas or concerns. They are highly perceptive about people and want to
help others achieve understanding. INFJs are not afraid of complex personal problems; in
fact, they are quite complex themselves, and have a rich inner life that few are privy to.
They reflect at length on issues of ethics, and feel things deeply. Because Counselors
initially appear so gentle and reserved, they may surprise others with their intensity when
one of their values is threatened or called into question. Their calm exterior belies the
complexity of their inner worlds.
 Because INFJs are such complex people, they may be reluctant to engage with others
who might not understand or appreciate them, and can thus be hard to get to know.
Although they want to get along with others and support them in their goals, they are
fiercely loyal to their own system of values and will not follow others down a path that
does not feel authentic to them. When they sense that their values are not being respected,
or when their intuition tells them that someone’s intentions are not pure, they are likely to
withdraw.

INFJ Strengths
Practical insight. Some people are visionaries while others are down-to-earth problem solvers,
but INFJs manage to straddle the line between both identities—and they usually succeed
masterfully. INFJs are insightful thinkers who see through situations and people effectively and
enjoy developing practical strategies for action. 

Compassion. As a Feeling type, you might expect an INFJ to show compassion—but what sets
them apart is that their empathy comes with a sharp intuitive edge. They are quick to recognize
worry and unhappiness in friends and loved ones, even when outward signs of distress are not
visible to others. INFJs are uniquely capable of detecting unspoken and unacknowledged
suffering, and are called into action by their instinctive ability to see beneath the surface.

Keeping the peace. Mediating disputes is hard work, but INFJs have an astounding ability to
help heal the rifts that divide people. They intuitively sense the real suffering that anger can
cause if left to fester, and because they are good listeners they are quite effective at helping
warring parties find workable solutions that will satisfy the needs of all. And they do it with great
energy and determination.

Decisiveness. For INFJs, obstacles exist to be overcome and no problem can outmatch the
strength and resilience that these types possess deep inside. INFJs follow through on their ideas
with conviction, and have the willpower and decisiveness necessary to see projects through to
the end. INFJs live for the opportunity to solve problems and bring about positive change in the
world.

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