Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
DRIVER Fi Introverted Feeling MORALS
What do I feel is right or wrong? How do I feel about it. Internal harmony and peace. The ISFP is very in touch with how they feel about something. They are very in touch with what is bad and good and what is positive and negative. Internal peace is all that matters. They strive always to understand their sense of morality in its most innate form and take for granted their ability to know right from wrong so innately. They think everyone knows how they feel about something and they do not like hurting other people’s feelings. They are extremely sympathetic and are concerned with everyone’s beliefs or emotions having the same intrinsic value that theirs do. They are authentically themselves and how they feel and believe what is right. They often struggle to explain how they feel and believe the situation and their actions themselves should reveal how they feel. They also interpret people’s actions or statements at face value, or in the most iteral sense believing that it directly reflects how the other person might feel. ISFPs come off as very pure in an emotional way and are often envied for being so sure about how they feel.
PASSENGER Se Extroverted Sensing REALITY
What is happening? The ISFP uses the current reality and their experience in reality to constantly reevaluate their emotional state. They judge what is happening right now and experiences as right or wrong. It is the job of Se to provide Fi with new experiences to evaluate so that they can constantly understand how they feel and create a more solid understanding of who they are. The ISFP might fight developing Se, since experiences and observing what is happening in reality might cause them to question their own morality and emotions and they prefer to be certain about this. Living in the moment allows ISFPs to figure out how they feel, so often they will advice others to live in the moment and ‘let go’ in order to find inner peace. ISFPs are aware that they live in the moment quite well but resent their need for other people to live in the moment. So often they try to help others live in reality , feeling this will help them find who they are and how they feel about something, they realize that being able to live in the moment and know how they feel is what makes them special. They often believe that experiencing reality is the only thing that matters. Take in the moment, listen to the music, feel the touch of another person and the sand beneath our toes. When they have the freedom to experience and feel, they are the happiest. However if Se controls the ISFP too much, the ISFP might lose that innate compass that drives them and they will lose themselves and their inner peace.
10 YEAR OLD Ni Introverted Intuition PROPHECY
What could be? ISFPs often struggle with discovery questions and will ask a lot what is the meaning of life. They want to believe that their own future is safe by staying true to themselves and how they feel. If the dominant function concentrates too much on the third function of Ni then they will constantly be asking themselves how they feel about things that haven’t happened yet. This causes a loop of lack of experiences and lack of action, since the ISFP attempts to evaluate how something that hasn’t happened would make them feel. This creates a loop of childlike hypothetical questions about the future and deep feelings that jump around constantly about a future that hasn’t happened yet. Or ideas that aren’t real yet. If the Fi completely ignores Ni, then they will exist fully emotionally in the moment, incapable of avoiding situations that make them feel horrible. They will then constantly feel trapped in a present reality that tears at their emotional state. In a very childlike way they will often search for relief about the future. Requesting confirmation from many people that everything is going to be okay. This search can cause them to be susceptible to religious movements that make them feel good or are nice. Their organized sense of right and wrong and experiences that confirm the reality of bad and good will often lead them to question the existence of meaning and spirituality in a very childlike way. Innocently always asking why their dog had to die? If they can use experience and a solid understanding of who they are to have at least some certainty of their own future, they will feel a great sense of relief. The demonic side of ISFP Ni, undercuts other people’s beliefs about meaning and the theoretical. They assert that the only thing that matters is how they are emotionally affected. They might deny their own search for meaning and assert that the only thing that matters is what happened and how they feel. Understanding doesn’t matter. The angelic side of ISFP Ni, reminds us to always question what an experience means to us. They often reduce internal understanding to simply knowing who you are. In this way, childlike Ni can provide a simplistic way to search for meaning. It is the job of Fi to think about how they might feel in the future and to think about the meaning. They might believe that meaning is an illusion. If people accuse them of not understanding things, they will grow defensive.
3 YEAR OLD Te Extroverted Thinking EFFECTIVENESS
Asks: What action should be done to fulfill the goal? How do my actions and the actions and words of others affect how I feel?
ISFPs will consciously deny that the actions and words of others constantly hurt their feelings. They will deny this affect and simply accuse the people of acting without a heart or with the intention of hurting them and then deny that it did hurt them because if they admit that the actions can hurt their feelings, it isn’t just their feelings that are being hurt it is their sense of self that is chipped at. If their sense of self and identity can be so easily harmed then they must have been trying to hurt them on purpose. They will become obsessed with analyzing the actions and words of others against their own understanding of right and wrong. And if it gets worse they will become obsessed with controlling the actions of others so that they are always acting in way that doesn’t harm their feelings. It is important that the ISFP consciously recognize that they expect the people around them to act in a morally consistent manner. If they realize that this is the consistency that they are checking for they will be able to search for that morality beyond the current action and the current phrase that they believe to be acting cruelly. However if the ISFP completely ignores Te and the value of action and they will become paralyzed to make sure that the people they surround themselves with are acting in a moral way, otherwise they will get taken advantage of.
DETOUR Fe Extroverted Feeling HARMONY
Asks: How is everyone else feeling? What gets everyone’s needs met?
Fi is a very selfish function, it is concerned with its feelings, its sense of right and wrong and often assumes that other people feel the same way. If something happens and it makes them feel bad, they assume that everyone else feels the same way. In this way, the ISFP doesn’t often think about how other people can have different emotional reactions then them, this is why they are often champions of people that were hurt but do not have the strength to say so. However, it also means that they are often wrong about how other people are feeling. So Fe, which is concerned with seeing other people’s emotions independent of their own is often fascinating to them. But it can also make the ISFP frustrated and stubborn, since recognizing the emotions of others means separating themselves from their own emotions and this is incredibly difficult for them to do. But being challenged by being able to understand the emotions and needs of other people can also give them a great opportunity for growth and a renewed sense of self since they learn that how they feel so deeply and defined about something is what makes them unique. They will begin to use their sense of emotional depth to enhance the experiences of others.
COP Si Introverted Sensing MEMORY
Asks: What has happened?
The ISFPs strong ability to live in each and every moment emotionally creates a strong desire to chase after that feeling constantly. They often criticize their own ability to remember how someone or something made them feel. They concentrate so hard on giving the best emotional experience to other people, wanting everyone to enjoy the moment with them that they often wish someone else would do this for them. Instead they often see people’s actions as harsh and cruel. When people say something cruel to them or behave cruelly, they often ask themselves why they can’t remember what a great time they had the other day. I.e. I was so nice to them and we had a great time, and yet they forget that so quickly and treat me like shit. And they criticize themselves constantly for not being able to remember a time better when someone was kind to them or whether they were cruel to them. The ISFP believes it can hold on to people by enjoying life with them but then they forget what they dd with people and criticize themselves and whether they are giving the best experience they can to people. They are always asking people to reminisce with them and remind them of their time with their friends. The truth is, the ISFP is amazing at helping people relax and enjoy the moment. People often remember their time so well and enjoy their time with an ISFP so much that they tend react by attempting to control or catch the ISFP. The ISFP needs to make sure that they choose the most deserving people to experience life with that wont try to control them or prevent them from living it. And also remember that someone trying to control them is NOT an expression of their love, you are not your S.O.’s pet only allowed to come out when they need entertainment.
SPEEDOMETER Ne Extroverted Intuition CREATIVITY
Asks: What could be? What if?
ISFPs creativity comes out in the form of Se. This means they create the best experience for people in the physical reality, using a grasp on the five senses. This means that many of them become great dancers, artists and entertainers. This ability to live in the moment in a deeply emotional way means that they have to reject current theoretical understandings. They tend to reject other people’s ideas until they are put into action. Until the abstract is put into reality, it isn’t reality and it is too changeable to the ISFP. For them, what could be is outside of their scope of control. They can only control their own future and experience and actions. Talk about implications of ideas on whole groups of people is often disregarded. Ask an ISFP a hypothetical question that warps reality and the way humans actually act and they will completely disregard you as living in the clouds. They can’t tell you how they feel about something that hasn’t happened or isn’t happing and could possibly never happen. The interaction is basically absurd to them. They might agree that some ideas lead to a physical reality that matters but it isn’t a high enough percentage that it matters to pay attention to all of them.
SPEED LIMIT SIGN Ti Introverted Thinking ACCURACY
Asks: Does this make logical sense to me? How accurate is this?
The ISFP asks themselves subconsciously how they feel about something. Because of this, they do not ask themselves what makes the most logical sense. To them, it doesn’t matter so much that something is factually right, it matters more how they feel about it. They will often dismiss logical facts that they are being told and search for how they feel about it or how someone else feels about it. They believe that facts aren’t capable of being understood without knowing the feelings that are attached to them. From this feeling they might extrapolate a meaning for their own future. If they can’t extrapolate how it impacts their own future then facts are ignored completely. Their brain doesn’t hold on to logical facts, it holds on to morally right and wrong and how they feel about something. They might see how others need facts and they are okay with this as long as that person behaves in a moral way.
How the ISFP goes bad?
Making logical sense doesn’t matter. Only how they feel and the current new experience. If they fail to reflect on what it means to them and their future and how it affects other people’s future. They become extremely shortsighted and selfish constantly judging the actions and words of others and how it makes THEM feel. How they feel is the only thing that matters. They will cut down the ideas of others and any reminders of how they have treated others. The only thing that matters is how they feel, what actually happened or what was actually said doesn’t matter. Just how they feel. They will also indulge too much in the moment, causing them to be extremely reckless by overspending, having unprotected sex, drinking too much without thinking about how it affects others. They will not be swayed by reasonable arguments and will not listen to any constructive criticism, cutting out people that don’t approve of them completely. They will also have intense emotional reactions to people but be incapable of explaining why they feel that way.
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