INFJ Secret - How Introverted Intuition Works 

I think the "coolness" factor of INFJ's is balanced by something else - loneliness and a sort of burden. I see Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings as a great example. We see him do so many "cool" things, see into others, help others, see the entire situation, not succumb to the temptations of the ring, be a hero - but what we don't see is all of the pages that aren't written in LOTR. Gandalf trudging through the woods. Alone. With nothing but his staff and his thoughts to keep him company. The horrors of his ability to see what may lie ahead, not by psychic abilities, but by the abilities to tie things together and predict a possible/likely outcome - as outlined in this video. There is a YIN and YANG to life, and when you are born with great positives, there are usually negatives as well. But we can work on those negatives, so there is that.

As an INFJ, this is the reason I dislike liers so much. I cannot accurately process their information in a way that is helpful to anyone and I resent the use of my faculties in this way.

Ok.... That first illustration is literally the BEST illustration of an INFJ, the perfect metaphor, Ni for the head, Fe for the voice, Ti for the "heart" and you can pretty much draw a conclusion for Se

I don't know about anyone else but I hate trivial things that does not coincide with the matter at hand. If I am in a business meeting, I don't want to do 'cheer-leading' hype to get positive results for/from co-workers. Things like these really turn me off. It often comes off as very fake and phony. Plus its forcing people to be unreal . Work is not a football game. These types of things I dread with a passion.(Ugh!)

INFJ's rejoices in Truths

In short - Unconscious pattern building from the experience and an innate calculation of a result.

For me, it's actually quite simple. First, as an INFJ, I am fascinated by puzzles. Just as someone who loves math would find equations a simple concept, putting together random pieces of a puzzle happens at lightning speed, even the ruling out of pieces that don't fit. Being empathetic, all my senses are in tune to possibilities that would help make the puzzle fit together. Body language, even the slightest twitch of the lips, or droop in the shoulders, the rapid breath, skin color, body movement, etc., can tell me how a person is feeling at any given time. Rapid speech patterns give away emotional aspects. As my brain collects all the pieces to the puzzle, an overall picture emerges. It isn't ESP. The part that seems uncannily accurate is in putting the pieces together. INFJs are acutely aware of their surroundings, as well as the people within those surroundings. The entire set of pieces begin to come together, as paint in a large picture; experience through observing life over time gives us the accuracy. My assumptions are not always correct, but they are a majority of the time. There really aren't any secrets. Humans react similarly to situations, so I can recognize a pattern as it develops, giving me more pieces to the puzzle, until I have enough information to make an educated guess as to the situation before me. The rest is just fill in the blank. You don't need every puzzle piece in place to see the big picture, just enough to take in the general scene. As more information gets added, I discard what obviously doesn't fit, even if it's put there as a distraction, until I can most accurately assess the situation. By laying out the completed puzzle to the person, group, etc., it would seem uncanny or ESP, but it's just the culmination of facts, or puzzle pieces, to fit a presented picture. It's all about patterns and puzzles.

Infj are often unsure or don’t trust their intuition and often because those who are manipulative can try to cloud their judgments. We are always trying to work things out, where it be people or situations and we are continuously investigating and analyzing sometimes without even awareness. Eventually we form a conclusion about a person or situation based on the data we have collected over time and this data somehow predicts future outcomes kind of like an experiment but we prefer a longitudinal study and once we have gained enough evidence then this feeling of just “knowing” clicks into place, and once we have this feeling that just “clicks” inside of us and we gain perspective that can predict the future of a person, situation or even ourselves in the future with a person or persons. Once this thing clicks into place it has never been wrong and that’s the scary part

I told a doctor today, "I'm not crazy, I'm an INFJ".

I’ve met people and instantly didn’t like their vibe and couldn’t understand why I didn’t want to be around them. Ultimately they exposed themselves. I have learned that we can “ see through” the smoke and mirrors when we trust ourselves and intuition.

This is a pretty good way to sum this up. I usually feel like when I meet someone I see a glimpse of who they really are, and their motives and get a general instinctual feeling on what they might be covering or why they are hiding. Its hard to explain because its something truly simple but complex at the same time. Its like from viewing someone's speech patterns, how they present themselves while also taking into account how they are tring to present themselves I get a sense of what brought them to this point. Honestly its too the point that I can assume and cold read traumatic times in a persons life and sometimes even assume or recollect memories. Its like you feel someone as a person regardless of how they try to present themselves. You just know because you just feel it while not really making it a huge deal. ITs just a natural cycle. Its like the whole world is a large aquarium and you're outside of it tapping the glass.

As an INTP, I must say that INFJs are pretty awesome.

I think we can create a system of repair very quickly in regards to ones emotions. We internalize others and try to repair their minds. Additionally, we create systems of repair in other areas of life, the environment for example. We are perfectionist so we try to repair at the deepest level possible and blame ourselves for not diving deeper. As a Christian I have found the deepest area to be spiritual so I dive beneath the surface of this physical universe.

this is the reason why so many people want to be INFJs, but wanting to be one and being one are not the same, I as an INFJ I always know when someones not an INFJ so don't thank you can fool an INFJ into thinking your someone your not because we will know things about you without you saying anything,

We take everything in and instantly restructure the info into a picture in our brain. It’s automatic and we know that the person is good or devious or scared or manipulative. I’ve had people try to manipulate me and without realizing it I’m already one step ahead of them. Ive been told that I’m brilliant but it’s really just an automatic process and sometimes I don’t really know what happened til later on when I’m thinking about the conversation when I’m alone.

Absolutely excellent. This has always been something I took for granted and never consciously recognized I could do, although I've known for some time that I am an INFJ. This explains all the times I've had to tell people, essentially, "I don't know, there's just something about it/them..." and afterwards have felt dumb for not having a more precise answer.

We talk very similarly, in regards to the pauses, and a short sighs here and there. A normal occurance for me, is my need to explain reason to a listener, as to why I verbalize language in such a way.

I really appreciate your peaceful spirit in the way you communicate. Very refreshing.

I have said 15 + years ago... I meet someone and a blank canvas begins to me to be painted with every experience with them, their unique canvas exists only in my head. My opinion of them is based on the colors and textures that I alone have painted on their own particular palate. Dark or light, the feelings of that Keep to yourself, show little, the ones that love you let you know with NO doubts watch for that kind of love. Peace.

awesome explanation! I have never been able to explain or accurately articulate how my mind works in a way that makes sense to a to anyone that doesn't have an INFJ personality. I have tried to explain I process and think in pictures, and nobody understands it. 😊😊 thanks for the video!!

This is quite accurate!! It's so true. I don't even have to try, the intuition is subconscious. I surprise myself all the time with the stuff that comes out of my mouth.

It's very disconcerting. I see other people live lives of ignorant bliss. Must be nice receiving information at face value, as to where I have to contemplate ALL my senses as well as what is being said.

i agree 100%...it got even stronger and quicker once I became aware of mbti...I'll be talking with someone and no matter what the presentation is, an adjective will pop into my head describing the real state of mind. An example would be someone telling me they're ok or happy and my mind will pop out "she's pissed!" or "he's evil"...etc

Thank you for your work, Scott! :) The is a Romanian verb - "a scoate// eu scot" which means "To show// I show" or "To reveal// I reveal". It is related to your name (etymologically, of course). I hope you enjoy this little trivia! :))

I feel like I can follow this as an INFJ but somewhat suspect it might still be clear as mud to all other personality types.

It needs to be noted that a lot of these cool things about INFJ may not apply to all INFJ at all times depending on the person's psychological health.

Intuition is like sheets of transparent papers whit hints of information. The INFJ see’s through the hole package of transparent sheets, and hence we can see quite clear some patterns that anyone else have ever been seeing. This could come at a glance, or after 10 years. Every time you are aware of a new discovery , it often feels like a rush of adrenaline throughout the body.

This is what I love about being an infj, especially when a friend is grieving about a loved one death for example I can easily make them smile a bit and know exactly when to leave them alone when they need to and when I need to be around them so that they don’t get stuck inside their heads and grieve for too long and feel even more pain, to me that’s definitely a power I’ll never take for granted

Everything is backwards to me, I see the truth rapidly, or the lie, which either way doesn't upset me, it intrigues me. Lol

More and more I’ve realized that I’m INFJ when I 1st believed it wasn’t. I was like “oh, no way I’m this “rare” I’m not special.” I’m not really special, but now I understand that I really am an INFJ. Scary and interesting how accurate the descriptions are

Thank you so much for this. I can relate completely! What I would like to add is that this is definitely and intuitive things that we use and it happens when we are in other people's energy fields. The deceiver can (try) to deceive but we know better because we are receiving the truth from the auric field and we will feel incongruency if we feel one thing but are told something different and I have come to the place where I just let people go now instead of arguing with them about it. If they do not get a handle on their deceiver, they end up "lost" because they haven't made the choice to be honest with themselves and they tend to misinterpret the information that is coming into their awareness. It's all energy and we are the ones who are most sensitive to all of it! Another tool that has helped me to understand myself better is IFS. www.selfleadership.org

I don't know... For me some of the Ni manipulation is pretty conscious... But I surpressed verbal Ti around for 15 years... So started thinking in my Ni concepts. I think the reason it seems unconscious is that many identify too greatly with their verbal Ti. BTW I surpressed the Verbal Ti so I could ignore my Ef which had become too painful at the time. So I don't recommend it.

Very cool video. I have had the experience of people picking up on what I'm really feeling. It's unnerving and embarrassing when someone catches on to what I was trying to hide.

Great details. It would be great if you could also explain or mention the fact that we, INFJ HERE, can also do this with stored previous information understand people without even conversing with them. I.e. sudden epiphanies and flashes of insight about particular individuals.

What throws me sometimes is when the person I’m talking to, doesn’t see in themself, or recognizes yet, they deny the insight so I come off as wrong or missing the mark. So i just keep my thoughts to myself and hope the person comes around to their own recognition.

I can look at people with all my attention, see their micro expressions, body language, just soaking everything they say. Maybe 🤔 a day later I begin to have insights about the people:

In class we were talking about stereotypes and misconceptions of them. Then the teacher showed us a slogan of some campaign. It said 'There's no justice in prejudice. -Sam' (I had to translate it from my language and still make it catchy). My thought was 'Maybe Sam's a foreigner born in the USA'. Our immediate reaction to a 'white' name is a white child. (it had a better example in my language). So I asked if that is what the slogan meant by that. Of course, I was 'overthinking' the picture and no one understood why I thought this. I tried to explain but with each word coming out of my mouth I could feel that this was going nowhere. I'm just wondering if that might be Ni or Ne.

Hi, First off, I love your videos! I just wanted to put something out there. I'm very much a very confirmed INFP. I have a certification in MBTI as well (I just did it for the fun of it). What you are describing in with the head drawing and the blank canvas...thoughts, ideas, going onto the canvas as lines....connecting thougths, ideas that are "out there" with each other...that is exactly what I do. To get right to the point...how is what you are describing different from Ne? Much of it just seems to describe "intuition", in general. I note that you did start talking about seeing "parts" of people like you did in another video and seeing that there is another side to that (such as a person who talks as if they are happy, but you sense a distressed part of them)....I do that all of the time, too. How is this specifically Ni vs. Ne? Why is what you are describing not Ne as well? Again...I'm not being critical....I just want you to think about it. I want to know what you come up with. I've seen your other videos and realize that Ni is something very different from what I originally thought. It's not connected to feeling. That's really interesting. It's made me think that I know nothing of Ni. It is my sixth function after all. You are trying to describe some very difficult concepts and put them into words. My hat is off to you! You're doing a great job with a very difficult task!!!!

A very difficult thing to explain but you did a great job. Full marks!

We pick informations up from the ether. Then we connect the dots as well. It’s both.

Another great video thank you. I think It's like a pattern forms in the subconscious of the INFJ about the other person which the INFJ then interprets consciously with insight or perspectives which may help the other person.

When you watch this video, watch it at 1.5x playback speed. You can thank me later.

I always say that my head knows more then I do. It's like the internet, web or a cloud. Always making connections while there is this music playing in the background in a loop with all the instruments and everything, haha. I don't have to turn on the radio. I apparently have this capacity to store a vast amount of information. So I know a lot but how or when did I learn these things? I have no idea and I can't lay it out in a logical order....I just "know" stuff.......

I find myself so in tune to pieces of a puzzle and possibilities of solutions that I've learned to read between the lines in a conversation, even if it's only ever a written one. For example, I once was in a written conversation, on the Internet, with a total stranger, yet I could accurately guess her situation almost down to the letter. How I came to the correct t assessment, when she hadn't given me specifics to the case, had her believing I was psychic, when all I did was use my past experiences to help me gain insight into a present dilemma, and so putting the pieces together gave the logical conclusion, which another person would probably never have thought of, let alone had the bravery to suggest it. (The individual was suffering from DID, brought on by being a constantly programmed captive to a diabolical group.)

I really wish you had emphasized how non-linear our minds are.

I'm a infj and I have never meet another infj🤔

So... The Ni is in the head, the Fe is in the chest, the Ti is in the stomach O.O.... well ok. And the Se........

Alot of it is also playing out events in our heads too. If i were im this persons shoes how would i feel? How else might i feel? How would i feel if i went through the same things as them ? And like that as well as instantly taking all information in And applying not only the best logical thinking to the scenario but also the best emotional thinking. And thats why we seem to know everything. We like to see the whole and understand that there is no good and bad only love and a lack there of.

6:40 infj: much fear I sense in you

I just ran across your videos. You describe things about our INFJ personality type that helps to reflect back to me, what is hidden inside. Thank you!

Ok, there's something freaky going on here. This is the second video of yours that I completely relate to!! I again can 'predict' what you're going to say next (not in a psychic way, just I completely understand what you're talking about. Please could you explain why I identify with Ni so much, but I'm ENFP? I'm going to watch some more of your vids, and see if the same happens. I have read that ENFPs are the mirror, or something like that, of INFJs, but I'm such a novice at all of this, so not too sure what it means, although I think I understand. Ta, :)

I feel that your videos have helped me tremendously. I am an INFJ myself and your explanations are perfect!

now if you apply intj's functions to this drawing/scheme if you will, you'll see how fundamentally different they are from infj.

This is by far the most confirming, verifiable and validating comment section I've ever gone through in my life.

I think Intuitives have this ability

You have explained this so perfectly clear! Incredible!

Hi, Scott. Thanks for the metaphor for Ni processing. I watched a video interview of Carl Jung about introverted intuition. I found your explanation to be more enlightening.

Thank you for taking the time to reply I appreciate your efforts. Regardless the time span. Thanks again.

This was great. I can't imagine not having these capabilities, what would life be like?

You have done an excellent job of of explaining it. Do you or have you had any experience with remote viewing?

Out of the mouth might come from something from here😆

I just saw Chelsea in my feed. That is how I know. They are so thick. Like if he thinks he is getting me back by playing with her online, I have no idea what is going on in the background. I just see it because of the watchmen on the wall.

Excellent video! Wow! This sums it up perfectly! I think I am an INFJ, after thinking I was an INTJ for a couple years... Eek.

Well done!! I'm curious if you can explain how this Ni process works with Fe. And how are our OWN emotions expressed? So many things I see sort of point towards INFJs being "fake" when it comes to emotion. I know I feel others emotions, and I know I work very hard to level things out, but I still feel strong emotion.

I am thinking out loud here... I wonder if the gathered 'information' you speak of, gets collected by and filtered through all of the INFJ functions? Or is it that the thinking, feeling, sensing is what we use (unconsciously or automatically) to make sense of the infoation. To give it a 'picture' or 'language' .. (the knowing)..? I feel this is how I function.

what are you even talking about... make a clear POINT

Oh, great day, get your point. To much detail. You don't have to have all this detail to see what's going on. Yea, I'm an ENFP. ;)

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Only INFJs? What about other Intuitive types? Thanks :)

It takes you longer to explain then when it happens. I look at it as being able to solve there puzzle but they need to do it themselves. If you try to explain it they get mad because you figure it out so easy and they go against it because it was so easy for you. I wish I could do it for myself.....I need another infj friend to figure me out! We observe, figure it out and have an answer but with humans there is more than one way to get there.

Dude this is spot on.

Infj too me are cool but seem a little unbalanced when it comes too how they feel...now will they allow other type have unbalanced feelings ???

Exactly....

Kind of weird. I didnt watch this video before. But I knew you were going to use the green marker when you did

This is so accurate, very well put! I have to show this to some of my S -friends and see if it helps them get it any better.

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great to see you are a left handed INFJ like me 😊

Thank you

Thank you

would love for you to make some more videos!

Thank You

Silience lier