Why You're An INTP, Not An INFP 

I find it hard to imagine anyone can live their lives using only logic or emotions.

Me at freetime: INFP Me at work: INTP Me at crisis: INSTEFIFPJTFTFF! 🤯

I think the really big issue is just that there are SO many stereotypes surrounding Fi-leads. In reality, a lot of Fi-leads are really smart and sense a lot of things. Fi stereotypes are clearly perpetuation by people who arent Fi-leads themselves. It's just the old 'let's all redicule the sensitive person, because, haha, you are so sensitive'.

I don't know, it's things like this that makes me think that the whole mbti system is flawed. I agree with Eriks final statement we are how we are. And the dicotomys are not always that pronounced. Furthermore thinking vs feeling is a poor choice of words. Its easy to imagine a scale from introvert to extrovert. But its quite a bit harder to see the same scale between thinking and feeling. They are not natural opposits in the same way and we all use them simultaneously all the time. They both also have very strong values connected to them. No one wants to be portrayed as being either coold and unempathetic or unthinking and controlled by emotions. I know that this is not exactly what it means in the mbti system but I still makes it hard to understand because that's what we have in the back of our heads.

It feels like dying when feeling and thinking mixes up in situations.

This has convinced me that I am definitely not a feeling type. Thank you!

when i answer tests according with who i am today, i score INTP, but when i include general whole life experience i get get INFP ( i guess its an INFP with a Ti feature :) i also work as an technical artist now so that can be the reason. Another INFP thing versus INTP is the theme of supernatural. I can really let it go and create a reality where ghosts aliens, astrology and divination are just as real as the real thing. While INTPS are far more skeptical - this was the point that really convinced me.

I used to get INTP when I was in middle school, somewhere between INTP/INFP around high school/college, and now INFP when I take mbti tests. Since the earliest I can remember, as far back as pre-school, I've always been curious about the why's of the people around me. As a child, I found it frustrating that I struggled to understand people. I could sense the subtle shifts happening somewhere in their inner emotional landscape but not understand what I was sensing. I remember often using rationalization to try to make sense of people's shifting moods/emotions (which led me astray many times). But as my emotional palette increased with life experience, I acquired a language to interpret the different shades of color people exude in a way that makes sense to me. The more I feel in life, the more beautiful people feel to me. edit: changed 'the' to 'a'

So I came here ‘sure’ I’m an INFJ. Leaving not knowing whether I’m an INFJ, INFP or INTP. 🤦‍♀️😂

I have noticed is that intps are good in comparing data which is something infp many times fail to do.

I've been mistyped before as an INFP, but ever since I ran a couple of tests after discovering cognitive functions I can say for sure that I'm an INTP, I naturally have this tendency to just "see the patterns" of logic and concepts, and that could apply with people's behavior which as far as I know that's more an Fe function rather than Fi, and I say this because I've dealt with IxFPs (and strong Fi users overall) before, and the whole thing about "knowing people's intentions with what they say and do and how do they say it or do it" doesn't necessarily apply because Fi (specially Fi dominants) tend to reflect themselves on other people based on their own personal feelings, but in the other hand most Ti doms for instance (IxTP) do have the ability to see through people's emotions, but because Fe is our inferior function means that we don't want to dive in into them most of the times (with all due respect xD), but we still end up playing the societies' role of "agreed phoneyness" for the sake of peace and harmony, and that's something Fi isn't willing to do, Fi won't fake it for you because for them doesn't make sense to pretend to feel something they're not really feeling even if it's an inferior function

Nice video, indeed, im an INFP but because Im a cold person is easy to see myself as INTP.

I think im both INTP and INFP.

I would use to get INTP in tests like the 16personality, and when I started looking into cognitive functions, I could see I definitely had a Se blindspot. I started wondering about my judging functions, cause the one thing that kept pushing me towards thinking, was how outwardly I showed my emotions, I have tried having the day of my life, and people would still think I was depressed. I started to realize that yes I was a feeling type, but not extraverted feeler, and I am still sure that Se is my blindspot. So that could only be one type, INFP.

But what if you, through objective reasoning, have concluded that there is pretty much never objective data that can be fully trusted so you have to experience it yourself?

I thought Ti uses internal framework,internal logic (especially inductive logic) rather than facts and data.Ti will reject data and fact if it fails to align with their internal framework.

Diagnose via inferior function. If you are more aware of not understanding people around and caring how people FEEL around / about you (Fe in inferior) than caring what people THINK about you (Te in inferior), you are an INTP. Dou you more care about or respect what moral authorities say (INTPs) or science authorities say (INFPs - INFPs rarely respect moral authorities, as they have own moral compass instead). In worst case, move to nemezis function, it should be easy to say, what makes you more active to wonder about.

Do you think there is difference between being emotional and being sensitive? Is being emotional just the same as being sensitive? I wonder sometimes ~

an infp who prefers intuition is an enfp 🤔

But why does the INFP look like a homeless punk rocker?