5 HOBBIES INFJs LOVE (but aren’t aware of) 

What are some of your favorite hobbies that seem INFJ-related?

I always find myself researching or falling into a rabbit hole for the most random things. Example: I'll watch a movie and then feel the need to look it up on Google to read reviews, learn more about the cast, director, and how the movie came about or I'll do this while I'm watching the movie lol. It's weird but knowing the plot doesn't ruin it for me because it helps me understand the characters more and I can pick up on subtle details and meanings that I may have missed. My husband thinks it's the weirdest thing ever but I don't care. 😂

1- we'd like to do something but we don't feel like doing it 2- we love to understand mysteries 3- We're good at creating something with very little information 4- Optimizing. So why not optimizing our personal lives? 5- Rebelling 🙂

Maybe we should make a list of our weirdest INFJ hobbies. Mine are these: 1.) Finding out what the parking is going to be like before I go somewhere. I MUST DO THIS. 2.) Watching to see how long it takes for that parent to look up from their phone and pay attention to their kid 3.) Using Dollar Tree junk to make a "fancy" centerpiece for the table, then spending over $200 on organic food for the dinner 4.) Writing a strongly worded email, editing it, rethinking it, rewriting it, using my thesaurus, only to delete it before ever sending 5.) Watching the lines move in the store and trying to guess which one will be the fastest, then trying to decide whether or not I should switch lines or stay put, then trying to add up all my purchases in my head so I know almost exactly how much I'll be paying

One could say we are almost addicted to emotions and also to deeper understanding of things. It was great fun to recognize these hobbies we have.

I love watching people play videogames but I myself hate playing videogames and feel that when I try to play videogames it's a waste of time.

As an older INFJ in my 50's, I enjoyed the way you categorized what we do as hobbies. I did not look at it that way. Now I can't stop smiling.

I love to cook, bake, paint, take walk and read

You know, I don't really feel lucky having the world's rarest personality type. It is just so deeply lonely.... But at the same time, I don't really want to socialize. The socially anxiety doesn't help either.

I've always felt different. I remember my mom telling me that at 10 months old I became potty trained. I was the first child so my mom was super prepared for me. I couldn't walk or even talk at 10 months old. She was holding me and I pointed to the wooden potty chair she had for me. I kept pointing and so she sat on me on it. At that very instant I was potty trained. I was a nurse for 38 years. I was very organized and very timely and was able to multitask. I had this boss, Jamie. She started a travel nursing business. I had just arrived home from a 6 month assignment in California. My sister pointed out the business. I went in applied for a nursing job traveling around central and western ND. I took the month of June off. She called me every week to see if I could start early. I ended up being one of her best nurses. She sent me to every new facility that she signed in a new contract. She paid me very well! She saw my special gifts and paid me handsomely. I was accused of not doing my work, because I was always finished due to my organization, timeliness and multitasking. She worked when she had an empty shift she couldn't fill. So she saw me at my best and taught her many things. I was a pragmatist, if I saw a problem I was able to come up with a solution to the problem and fix it. I'm creative with crafting, decorating, cooking and baking, I love reading and being informed. I have become interested in political discussions and can hold my own. I am really reserved and have a very large vocabulary and use it often. So I would say these are my creative elements of myself!

I'm 64, and I love watching nature. Just watching, not naming and categorizing. I never fit in with most nature watchers because I don't care to learn the genus and species, and I don't want to classify or have goals to achieve. I just want to watch, appreciate, and imagine what the lives of the animals are like and why they might be doing this or that. Also numbers and inanimate objects have personalities for me. These things come alive in my mind. When I studied writing and linguistics and wrote poetry, essays, stories, etc., I was deeply involved and published some writing. But overall, I didn't and don't have an interest in the competitive world of publishing. I have felt like a failure so many times because of it. Now I know - it was my hobby, not a failed career. I love editing and tutoring - these are my forever hobbies and have become the bulk of my career. Thank you for helping me understand my life, Wenzes!

100% true.. I'm seriously addicted to watch dance performances and to watch how much other people love to dance. My friend always tells me I ought to stop dreaming about dancing and finally start doing it and yeah, I kinda would like to learn, but whenever I try, I start missing that passion I saw in everyone else and give up, feeling inadequate. Watching your video now, I finally realise that what you said about loving other people doing their hobby is actually really what I'm in love with, so THANK YOU for finally making me understand what this really is about and there's no reason for me to feel depressed about it anymore.

When you mentioned liking to solve mysteries, it makes me wonder if my interest in conspiracy theories is sort of like a hobby. Others often think it's about fear, but it isn't at all.

Omg! Im a professional optmizer! Every move i make is preplanned so everthing has flow. I always refer to myself as lazy so i work smarter not harder. Every moment of my day has been chopped and spliced and edited rewritten reinvented and customized to my standards! Lol. Born rebel! All the way. I do i want how and when i want . I follow my instinct and intuition in every decision. my moto has always been "f" what people think! 😆 The company i work for allows autonomy with his managment team . I love it because i hate being micromanaged. I love working with and around people, but i despise imaturity and fakeness of humanity!

I am an Autistic INFJ and my favorite Hobby is Railfaning. I love watching Trains and hearing their Horns

I love to watch this guy who once a week, clear the property ( for free)for someone who cannot do it for themselves. It takes almost an hour to cut down overgrown bushes and trees and a lot of mowing the lawn. I will sit and watch this for an hour.

Sounds like a good book title. "The Ultimate Guide to the Quiet Quit" by INFJ. 🤣

Does shift around piles of books count as a hobby? Prioritizing yearly reading lists? Collecting candles and incense? Art shopping?(or atleast window shopping) Motivating others to do something creative(or creatively). Support starving artists / musicians / activists with our inspiration, network and or money / direct engagement Forgetting to do chores Analyzing systems (from ecological to socio-economic to organ systems to relationships of ideas) Juxtaposing systems, insights, experiences(from words, shapes, colors, to movies, proverbs, cosmologies, democracy, biodiversity etc) - essentially poetry These are all atleast true for me

Philosophy, psychology, writing, dancing, building furniture from wood, learning something new, interpreting economic news for the stock market, riding a motorcycle although I am fucking scared Sometimes (lol), traveling alone. The Last two were hard Work 😄 but Love it!

I used to enjoy hanging out with dad and his going to stamp shows and doing stuff around his stamps. And sitting in kitchen as mom cooked. And mom loved to cook.

What are some of my favorite hobbies that seem INFJ-related? Out of the five that you mentioned, rebellion is the one hobby I find myself doing. Not rebelling in the careless way. Rebelling because I am not doing the same things everyone else is doing. For instance: My main hobby is automotive restoration. Most guys will purchase an engine already built and ready to run out of the box and pay someone else to do the things they either don't want to do or don't know how to do. As for me, I take the position of "Built, not bought!". I built my own engine, transmission, and everything else to how I want it to perform and look. I have done everything. I just simply wanted my own touch to it. One of a kind. Like me. I also have done it this way because it's not easy. Yet, I have enjoyed myself. Going against the grain is fun.

Building something from the ground up instead of coming into something already established. Excelling under stress.

Regarding optimizing, I have always described to people that we need to find the easiest and simplest way to complete a given task correctly. Most people don’t get I because we have always been told there is only one way to do a particular task correctly. Rebelling, definitely a part of me. I have never been one to join the crowd and it has served me very well.

You just described most of my life. (now 90) I've never seen them as hobbies, but you've given me something that I will chew on because it makes sense. I've been called a shit disturber many times over the years, especially when I was a community activist/advocate. I remember once a government employee, whom I knew quite well and liked, approached me on the street and told me that at a recent in-house meeting his superiors told everyone they were not allowed to associate or be seen with me in public places. My reaction was one of mirth and the conclusion that I must be effective in what I was doing. Love your videos Wenzes and enjoy connecting all the dots in my life.

About 5 - I love doing something new, unexplored, but I struggle with perfection around it. I'm scared I'm not going to do it the best way it can be done and I worry I don't know enough about the subject. Otherwise I do agree will all 5 points 🎉

Thank you for the new perspective, I now dont feel like a total weirdo since I relate to all 5 of them. I have always loved watching my sister get ready to go out. From styling her hair to doing her face and choosing a perfume- it just facinates me how much care and self love she puts into a semingly irrelevant event. But to her, it makes her feel good and she just lets me be the quiet observer; I love this more than anything. I learnt to crochet so that I can have new things to try all the time, sometimes it means pulling it all out and starting fresh all over again just to keep me engaged with the colour set that I had chosen. I have accepted this as part of my hobby and not a set back. Mysteries are my favourite and many rabbit holes later, I have decided that they are easier to break free from if presentented in a text format. With the number of dissertations I have read, I could have been a doctor by now 😅 Optimization is one that I have always seen as a skill, many companies have benefited from my approach to minimal effort for maximum output. And finally, rebellion.. this one made me laugh. It brought back a memory of a dream that I had as a teenager where I loudly declared in the middle of a grocery store that I was not a sheep. That I could walk my own path, despite everyone else being part of a train-like curcuit with their shopping carts. Onwards and upwards with a new perspective ❤

Rebellion as a hobby. LOL, yup.

Fist one is really on point. I love to watch people gossip because there are so much going on, they are so excited. But when it comes to, gossiping it feels so wrong, like what I do is against my morale code, so I'm a bad person now 😵‍💫. This was really confusing for me

I have a group of close friends. Their passions including: gambling in Las Vegas, astronomy,golf, going on road trips in their vintage car, buying and doing up a house in Spain, singing in a choir, etc. I genuinely love listening to them talk about their hobbies but feel no interest in doing any of them myself. I suspect I’m strange….

I love taking pictures of people in art galleries, just totally absorbed. People don't know how cute they are. Honestly I see people like people see puppies.

I just recently realize that I am INFJ I’m 51 years old and I’m getting all the answers. I’ve been looking for my entire life since I was a small child and people first started lying to me everyone. It’s very overwhelming, but finally not being alone learning about myself and why I do things the way I do, so far you’re my favorite teacher my entire life I’ve been searching for someone like me some sign that there’s somebody else on this planet like me and I’m finding lots of them. Thank God. Right now this is the most important thing in my life, and it will be for quite some time, I love how you explain things so incredibly clearly thank you maybe I do get to end up doing something good in my life.

I love Art, i love to go to museums, and i enjoy lifelong the hobby photography.

I’m a gay INFJ and I believe studying to be a sacred act. Basically, how monks would learn, study, copy; that environment for understanding. Not in a rush, and in complete silence. I’m 52, atheist, and this is where I am at on my journey to health and happiness. At this point, I don’t know if, or when, people will be a part of the picture. Being alone (not lonely) is where I find myself realizing my potential and endeavors. I don’t need to explain or prove myself to anyone. We have a right to pursue happiness in this country (USA).

Efficiency. Do the most with the least amount of effort.

Well, I'm a multimedia artist.

1. Watching a RU-vid video about someone talking about something she’s really interested in. 2. Brain teasers. 3. Starting projects but 4. “Use what you got to get what you want.” 5. Buck the trend.

I don't usually leave comments but there's something about the whole video that really left me in awe. Watching this video felt like I was talking to a stranger describing me LOL like how can you know me so well?! 😂 I couldn't agree more about EVERYTHING that is just so me! It made me realize a lot of things that I've been actually doing. MIND BLOWING literally 😅 And it actually kind of explained to me why I think and act and made such decisions a certain way. I made decisions this year where it's kind of rebellious I guess but to me I just knew I had to make that decision now or I would regret not doing it later in my life. I subscribed already before I even got to half of the video LOL I think I found a lifesaver 🥰 I'm glad I found this!

Thank you so much for this insight, Wenzes! I have been thinking about my "hobbies" as faults! Optimization is not laziness! Seeking novelty is not a failure to follow through. etc. I feel alot better about myself right now. Also, instead of feeling bad about myself for "rocking the boat" by not going along with the crowd, it's time to feel good about my ability to design new solutions and to ignore those people who try to bring me down because they're not comfortable thinking outside the box.

When I was married I enjoyed observing the reactions of my two ex's to the world; it was like a yin observing a yang. Other than that, really enjoy studying war, history, and the creative process of others.

Optimisation is my obsession. Unfortunately, I often spend more time trying to reinvent the wheel than just doing a task in an inefficient way to get it done. I have, however, turned my obsession into a profession and so I now work in the field of robotic process automation. You would not believe how much patience you need to explain over and over again to someone that “if you just click this button once, the rest will get taken care of.” Fun times 🎉

Rebelling meaning "go against the flow" is always my motto.

I think you could resume the first by we love watching documentary, biopic and reading autobiography

Similar to Yoda exploring the dark side, but without succumbing to it. I found myself in that position. I observed other people engaging in it and learned from it. I used only my empathy, not actually engaging in it physically. I experienced it, but I didn't genuinely embrace it; my primary goal was to understand the dark side, to comprehend why its practitioners were drawn to it. It was more about gathering information and delving into the psychological aspects of it.

I wish I had always known I was an INFJ. When I was a kid I said I wanted to be a systems analyst. I never got to be that but it would have been a great career for me! Analyze, understand, design, repeat.

When it's comes to people..We INFJ love to solve mysteries, understand emotion and destroy ego.

I have a craft room,evertime i start a craft i bye everything i need for it (as if im a pro😅) then get bored with that and move on to another craft and the same pattern happens everytime...now i have a room full off stuff that i think i will get back into the same craft again,but probably wont lol...

Bang bang... you nailed it!!!❤️In regards to the first hobby, watching or listening to someone share what they're passionate about for me, is that glimpse into their heart & getting to witness pure joy in action!❤️Thanks for claiming optimization as a hobby, lol, I just thought I was either really lazy &/or perpetually procrastinating!!! My sister & I have driven family & friends crazy with our zest for details!😄 I've never identified it as rebellious, I've left many conversations with the person(s), scratching their heads like "what?" I seldom find myself in discussions, where I don't immediately derail what's being presented to me. I don't mean that I don't listen to what the other's offering. Nor do I come off like I'm superior or a know it all. I genuinely am open to knowledge & therefore I instinctively feel the need to filter the bs out. Then we can have a real conversation/discussion. Then we all be on the right path to, or simply arrive at the truth of the matter! Love your incites!!!❤️ You're a jewel!! ❤️You're the best!❤️

Spot on. I literally switched to your video from a fashion video 😂

This was helpful Wenzes. I have been a life long "optimizer". It is as natural as rain to me to try to make something simpler and easier. Probably because I like to conserve energy and not work harder than I have to. You gave me a Eureka moment because you classified that as a "hobby". Yes! That fits. No matter how hard I have tried to adopt conventional hobbies like fishing, building models, etc. they have never really been satisfying. I think the old adage of "you are what you do" is true and we INFJs just need to be prodded into recognizing it. If you like to re arrange your bookshelf regularly than that is your hobby!

I do a new thing, astronomy-based astrology... my case studies are extremely precise... I adore looking at the specific auspices of the individual stars (according to the physical science of the stars, by my determination) and HOW THE CELEBRITY LIVES OUT THOSE AUSPICES... it's terrifically inspiring to me... I made it a key part of the methodology in my astrology coaching...

Proust writes about a character that has "imaginative possession" of fashion and contrasts it to a character who owns the fashion, but dies not really understand or appreciate it.

I have a habit of thinking and talking to myself all the time. I get so involved in thought and talking it out to myself that i don’t realize that everyone else is starring at me and wondering if I’m crazy

I once spent two hours watching a video about siege ladders.

I discovered that I am an INFJ by accident by, trying to figure out my co workers personality. 2 years later I find out I am also a life path nine. So with that said. I am a male, so yeah lol! I am tons of complicated.

I am 74. I used to collect people many different people. Now I try to stay on my 1/2 acre months at a time and just watch from my rocking chair on my veranda.

I'm 60 years old now. I have never had any hobbies, apart from the ones described here by Wenzeslawa. Other than maybe my biggest hobby is that sense of just 'being'.

Hobbies? Looping! Rollercoasters? NiTi! ....?

Love this video and can definitely relate with all of this... I love watching people pursuing their passion, and I love to support them in that even if I lack that myself. I also absolutely love starting new things and new scenarios, it seems like I always have endless ideas and not much time and energy to give them practical shape. and yes I don't fear taking the lone road, in fact it excites me. I can see so much potential in the world around me and I wonder why don't everyone question the shitty society we've built around ourselves. you can say my peers view me as rebellious. I am also very good at learning my potentials early on and not wasting my energies in areas where I feel I cannot excel after a limit r I simply don't have the wish to. that's how I optimize my life and that's why I have like tons of hobbies, like painting, reading, cooking, writing collecting cute boxes and stationary, besides being a medical student.

Brilliant Wenzes! Love it.

Wow!! Spot on

These aren’t hobbies, these are characteristics

Very helpful, ty.

You really nailed it with this one.

This video is on point. Thank you!

Very concise and eloquent! ❤❤❤

Liked the video after first two minutes 😂So on point!

Spot on

I love this channel! Thank you! 💡

Your channel is a blessing 🥹

You just gained a subscriber

Number 2 was an eye opener. Thank you

Interesting way of putting it, ty Wenzes 💌

This video I love.

I will watch restoration videos like its crack. Especially furniture and old cars. I have no interest in old cars or furniture, yet I get a lot of pleasure and knowledge from them.

Amazing and well-thought out video, thank you!

Your channel has been so helpful to me. Thank you 💕

All these are spot on. Scary precision.

No one will ever quench the fire of my Rebel spirit!

Optimizing! Omg yes

This was really good.

I love how you gave us hobbies. Not Se, but hobbies nonetheless. I do enjoy photography, some fashion, or dressing nicely, flowers in my home and hygge. I loved the way you framed this concept tho

I'm so glad I found you

I LOVE TO LEARN.

Wow, as an INFJ you are spot on. I am not into fashion at all but I like watching documentaries on fashion and really admire those who know how dress up in a very elegant and sophisticated way. I also get obsessed with getting to the bottom of some of my peers behavior.

💯 % resonate with these. Thank you 🤩❤️‍🔥❣️

Thank you! -- Spot on ... and now validated!

So true! I’ve never had it verbalized before. You helped me see it clearly. ThankYou.

A very helpful and insightful video! thank you

Holy Cow! Right out of the gate you nailed me on the very first one!

This one is fun.

Thanks for helping us understand ourselves!

Just continue wenzes❤🎉

Very interesting video, I felt understood.

1) observing other people doing their hobby. (RU-vid indulging of other people’s hobby) observing is the essence. Experience how others feel in this. Not wanting to be or do… but through the other 2)we love understanding mysteries. Not a habbit, it’s a real hobby! You keep searching for a solution till you understand (NiTi loop) it can be something excited, look at it more light. 3) we like to start something new. It seems you can’t stickBUT we love to look in the black box, start anew. We are starters. Not a storekeeper. Create something with little. We have the ability to create new, naturally. Logic out of nothing. Organize it on purpose: to start something new. Fulfiil the need for novelty 4) Optimizing: maximum results with minimum effort. The bare minimum for the best outcome. Wholisticly. How to set up our life… some areas you will not do the bare minimum. You pick the right battle: plan your life strategically. 5) rebelling. Path not traveled, looking in the black box. You are built for it. Our mind does not feel it’s missing something. Use rebellion safe for the parts you want to keep safe. And rebel in the right areas for you.

Thanks, you're cool 😁

Awesome

I love watching art videos. I don’t do what they do but they give great ideas that I tweak to fit my art hobby.

I love this one. Infj fun! Im glad to have my interests validated as legit hobbies.

Enlightening video Wenzes, you have succintly articulated insights I have been circling around in the past years through many experiencies without being able to give them proper shape or meaning, yet you nailed them here with such clarity. Thank you.

I’ve always considered my observing as a hobby! I’m glad to know this! 😃