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INFJ and INFP personality types are two of the most creative personality types among all the 16 types. We love art, writing, color, beauty, and finding the deeper meaning behind everything. But one of the most often asked questions from the INFJ personality type and the INFP personality type is: “I know I’m creative, so why is it so hard for me to express it?” Struggles with creativity for INFJs and INFPs tend to take two forms. The first is that the actual creative process feels hard. There might be a lot of good ideas bubbling to the surface, but it’s difficult to get them down on the page. Or, the person feels like they are experiencing a creative drought, and have no good ideas at all. Either way, this makes the INFJ creative process and the INFP creative process feel very stop-and-go, like we’re hitting the gas and then slamming on the brakes. When we’re experiencing this frustration with stop-and-go energy in our creative process, we’re disconnected from flow, and we’re usually engaging in INFJ overthinking or INFP overthinking. Instead of writing and creativity being a playful, experimental place that serves as a refuge for us, it becomes something that feels really hard and not fun at all. The second way that INFJs and INFPs struggle with their own creativity is by experiencing a lot of fear. We might fear that it’s too late to start, or that we don’t have any natural creative talent, we don’t have the skills or training that we need, or that our ideas won’t work out or be successful. All of these struggles and fears make sense if you’re approaching creativity from a mainstream point of view, but INFJs and INFPs are not mainstream people. Mainstream perspectives and methods don’t work for us.
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23 авг 2024