INFP personality type traits

SEES SELF: without illusions, but constantly hopes to improve.

OVERRIDING NEED: to expand self understanding.

IRRITATED BY: abrasiveness, materialism, intrusions into privacy, efficiency at expense of human cost, people who pull rank.

STRENGTHS: encourages creativity and participation, offers complex and acute insights into others with warmth and positive support.

SEEN BY OTHERS: as perhaps shy and indecisive, but capable of occasional and surprising toughness.

DECIDES by putting self inside an issue, may postpone closure by generating so many options.

IRRITATES OTHERS: by untidiness, guilt trips, daydreaming, rushing into unwise actions.

CHALLENGES: may delay both starting and finishing things, allow their inner critical voice to destroy confidence, become sarcastic.

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you’d return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”