fine , the INTJ mental age is not elderly , my large ego can afford that hit . But did you really have to put the ESFP above us ? I didn't lost my respect for you because you are the greatest MBTI comedy channel but it seems a bit unfair . I get that you wanted to illustrate why ESFP's are misunderstood , and i agree but i don't think this is the way to fix it . it's true that INTJ's think they know everything but it's because we are considering things very deeply and sacrifice our sensory tasks for the purpose of understanding things and gaining experience . you know very well that ESFP's are way more carefree and irresponsible (relatively to INTJ , but in general it's not allwase clear )
I'm a 40 year old, Christian INFP, and my strong impression is that most individuals just... well... 'don't know what to make' of me. At least, in casual or professional settings. I don't think INFP's respond to others in ways others (who are not INFP's) consider normal. You're right, we're in our own category.
How did I just know that the INFP could not be categorised as anything other than a paradoxical loop? Once again, FJ, you seem to have fully understood how we INFPs view ourselves and the world.👏👏👏
As an INTP, I kinda feel like we appear like we age backward. We’re very mature for our age when we’re younger and then eventually there’s a crossover and we’re still perpetual children even as adults.
Exactly, the curiosity and social awkwardness doesn't really go away. We seem as well behaved mature kids for naturally good grades and not getting in trouble much. But the secret is that deep down we are perpetually immature, only showing that wacky side of us to selected few. When we grow up and academia success is not the most important marker for maturity anymore, we lag behind. We're not the ones to dive into relationships and families as everything must be thought and overthought to highest details. Making (at least semi) permanent decisions like partnership and housing the bane of us, because what if, what if, what if. May even translate into jobs "what if something better is around the corner, I don't want to be stuck here". Our indecisive need of always keeping one foot out can be bane of our commitment, which is usually maturity marker later on. Unless the stars align and we're fully passionate and engulfed in our commitments. I wish the life worth obsessing over to all my fellow INTPs 😆.
as another intp i think i kind a disagree, we're always mid in everything, i have entj and intj as my siblings and their mental age was older when they were at my age, of course we get things done eventually by not even trying to, whether if its about understanding others intentions and living our own path, but we're always in the middle of "should i leave everything' and ' i need attention' zone, we're really like young adults that has both sides
My best friend is a very stereotypical INFP. She has a lot of childlike interests and often acts like a 13 year old (she's actually 19), but when someone hurts her feelings, her morals or her interests, she becomes the most mature and wisest person in the room. She's childish on the outside, maybe to cope with her problems, but is internally extremely mature.
Yeah i have infp friend she is just like how you say,she is mature but she don't like to act like it she is kinda toxic so she act all crybaby and childish but she know how she act some of the time
That sounds like me as well. It's really beautiful that you recognize all those things in her. As an INFP, she's probably noticed and really appreciates the way you see her, and knows very much all the beautiful things about you!
As an INFP I can confirm.. I have been told, that I am an old soul living in a wrong century AND I have been told that im immature and I have to grow up. I was genuinely expecting Frank to divide INFPs into ancient and baby. Life would be easier for us it we could actually take some kind of benefit from both sides of maturity, it is more likely used against us. We are either too "boring" and not wanting to join in on other people´s fun activities, or acting childish and super silly and doing random goofy things, which makes people uncomfortable, why are we so silly when your not 10 anymore, and why are we so bored and uninterested, when we are not 70. It is sure a journey.
We have too much going on, and thus should not be bothered by what they say (but it stays forever). We should just tell those people to get off our lawns, then go roll around on it. Whimsy.
OMG I feel that so much as INFP as well... I either ruin the fun cause I'm not joining in, OR I'm being so silly that it's too much and people think I'm annoying :D It's so great :D (/sar)
Oh shoot. The relatability of this post made me laugh so hard. God, I just hate being like this. And I have been like this for ages, since birth maybe. Somehow I can't change it. I don't want to at times. But like what the hell! It's really disadvantageous. Doesn't it make INFPs less attractive in conventional terms? I feel that all the time. I hate it. Its sometimes like being bipolar. And you know what! you are not actually getting on the side of anyone by being like this but still you still innately remain like this. Not joining in when you could have benefitted from it because hey, it's too much and then doing really random stuff that no one can make a head or tail of.( I like doing the random stuff to be honest). Nowadays, it's like the whole world is having a party. And you want to have fun but there's a zip going on prompting you not go and to feel left out like an observer, never a participant. I am sorry for ranting like this. It might not come off as much coherent. I just wanted to share.
As an INFP, I was pleasantly surprised and honored to be given that much consideration and having a category just for my type. Like yes, I do act like a child, but I feel much older on the inside. It's just that, I don't think anyone would believe me if I say I'm mature unless I act like it, and it's just hard. I was half expecting to be put in baby section but I'm so glad that someone actually acknowledged our (atleast mine) true mental age.
That's because we don't open up to most people. They don't know what to say because we sound awkward if we are forced to do smalltalk but if someone would ask us straight up what our opinion on slavery, human traffiking, space, the deep sea, death and life etc. Are we would open up and start a deep conversation
... did you just imply that INFP's are some kind of ouroboros infinity loop of senile, child-like elders? That mentally, I am both too old AND too young to responsibly watch a pg-13 movie by myself without uncontrollably bursting into tears? How DARE, sir! We will (probably not) talk about this after my naptime!!!
As someone who is about as INFP as possible, this could not have been more accurate. I recently had to write a memoir of my adolescence for an education class focusing on the adolescent, and I basically came to the conclusion that I feel like I have simultaneously been an adult since I was 5, and yet am still very much a sensitive child in my 20s, and I am not entirely if I ever had an adolescence, or if I am just going to be perpetually stuck in adolescence because I feel like I am both an adult and a child at the same time.
Exactly as I feel! As a teen, I've always wondered why I am more 'mature' than the adults.. but now as a mid-20s person, I do do things I wanted to do as a teen, while feeling like a baby, and acting like a elderly person
Frank, those last few minutes about the INFP were way deeper than I thought they'd be, and honestly I'm so glad someone said it for me. I've literally felt EXACTLY like that - so young at heart, yet...so, so old. On the surface, we might seem pretty naive and oblivious to a lot of things, but deep inside of us, we have an entire world with dark places that so many people haven't even begun to explore yet.
This is so real, sometimes I feel like a massive baby and at other times I feel like I've lived through centuries, it's pretty strange tbh but I wouldn't have it any other way
So so true. People will be calling us naive but many times can’t be as deep in thoughts and feelings. We get excited over silly things but also sympathize with the cosmic truth of life. 😂
As an INFJ who loves a suspected INFP very much. I wholeheartedly agree. They really are capable of childlike wonder and openness and the maturity and single-mindedness of old age at the same time.^^
Agreed! I'm INFJ and my hubby over over 20 years is confirmed INFP. He is so much more interested and open to new possibliities and opportunities than me, which has been really good for me to learn from him, but at the same time, our deep convos are on such a deep (high?) wavelength that no average person would get what he's even talking about, so definitely ancient wisdom from that perspective!
As an INFJ in a relationship with an INFP I can confirm that we emotionally connect on our ancient level but I also love my partner‘s childlike behavior which comes out once or twice everday.
As an INFJ, I was wondering if I should try dating an ENFJ or INFP because I love them both. But now I think that a childish INFP man would be good for my mature and organized personality.
As an INFP myself, I KNEW they were going to be difficult to categorize here... we are somehow both like a child that is first experiencing the wonders of the world, yet also an ancient poet who has wisdom gathered from many years in nature... yet also like a depressed emo teen 😭xD EDIT: HAHAH the ending was perfect oml
I would say that makes the ANCIENT. If you actually talk to someone who is very close to the end of their life they are very much that way. They have REGAINED the wonder of every little thing in the world but at the same time they have experienced so much that they are easily weighed down by even small sorrows because there are so many great sorrows that it reminds them of.
I am an INFJ and I clicked this video out of pure curiosity. I have to admit I started rolling from laughter when you categorized my personality type in 'ancient' and brought up the e-mail bit, because my social media is literally filled with a bunch of (re)posts of inspirational and motivational quotes, tutorials, relaxing scenery, helpful tips, cute things that make people smile, etc. In my case, you totally nailed it 😂
As an INFP I think that our position being both the oldest and youngest really fits. I do constantly have my head in the clouds and act kind of childish but since I was younger I realized I had more adult-like thoughts than most kids my age. I don't know how or why but it really does feel just right to be both the youngest and the oldest in terms of mental age.
"Life is not a straight line but an endless circle" You took us on a roller coaster ride and land us eventually on a wisdom field. Frank is the best one to make a closing scene 😎👍
As an INFP, I sometimes feel like a part of me is too old for this life already, but at the same time, I'm also still the child I was younger. It's really strange and hard to explain but yep, that how I feel about my mental age at least. Update : just saw the end of the video and it's perfect xD
I liked the ending too! It’s like a circle. I’ve always described the INFP to myself as like I was frozen in time at a young age (maybe mid-teens?) and eternal like I’m young still in spirit but lived a long time, kind of like tuck everlasting
I'm in the middle and I feel both ways. It's insane. I also love how you described this. It made me think of life path #'s and how I'm a 9, which is described as the beginning and the end.
This is my favorite of all your explanations of INFP! Cryer, goofball, AND deep thinker. No wonder I have a hard time figuring out what mental age I am. Thanks for this video to help me understand better!
I once did a random what's your mental age test and got the result that my mental age was 18. Then I did the same test again and selected the least likely options for my least accurate mental age. And got 19. 😆 Analyzing the questions and my answers the results provided, I basically answered so completely opposite ends of the spectrum between 1-40 that the test got confused and threw me in the middle somewhere, and then I did the opposite, which still was so divided that I was thrown in the middle anyway. My actual age at the time was 17.
Yeah idk about asinigning this to my family but we blended 3 families. Ex passive agressive and his daughter( pulled between 2 coasts) narcissist, ME ADD, my son ADHD, 2 Adooted natural brother and sister. He HAS ADHD & PTSD issues from his abusive birth home, she is bi- polar, Oppositional defiant, ADHD. They were adopted from my 1st cousin. Bad drug & abusive situation. Husband is a NASA engineer, I'm an interior designer home remodeled, older son MMA fighter physical trainer, his daughter accountant, younger odd daughter hair stylist, younger son USMC VETERAN, engineer .SO we all survived the pandemonium and shenanigans surfaced successfully. Now add 5 grandsons 🥰😍
I am still convinced that INTPs (including myself) reach the mental age of 15 at 10 years old and just stop aging. We just get more experienced at being a 15 year old.
I kind of get it. It's like instead of becoming more mature, you just become more experienced so the maturity level remains constant. I'm not so sure what age I was at 10 but apparently all my family thought I acted like I was 70.
I agree wholeheartedly about IN FP’s being both old and young. Shakespeare’s 7 stages of life soliloquy sums it up perfectly, that being extremely old returns us to another childlike state of incognizance.
Well, this INFJ did not skip to the INFJ part. Hehe. I guess my mental age told me it's important to care about everyone. I would have to agree with at least my type and the INFP (the two types I know most about, lol). I remember giving advice to my friends from a very young age. I like this style of edutainment, with the comedic graphics, etc. Thanks for the early access and the reminder about "kick." I needed that today. Always appreciate your tutelage, Frank.☺️
I also didn't skip just to find out where the INFJ one was at (then again its a no brainer to know where we'd end up so it just wasn't worth bothering to skip) 😂 I was way more curious about how the overall ranking would look like and how it all would come together ☺️. More info on others? Gimme, I alrrady know enough about myself age-wise 👵
As an INFP, it's funny that with the basic common sense pertaining the practical aspect of life, I'm such a beginner navigating my way through it; but in the meantime, I also have the comprehension of "life" in a much larger sense since a young age. I remember in college, a friend told me that "you have a youthful spirit but also an old soul". I always like to compare life as a game, and I would say that, I have a pretty good understanding of the concept of the game, but pretty slow at actually playing the game. I'm very comfortable just staying out of everything and just observing human.
Amazing way to view INFP. I was ok being in my own category, but an ancient baby sounds nice too. I guess it’s because we shape our personality to match with the person we’re talking to, so it’s hard to see where we belong in terms of “mental age”. I think what you said about us seeming like we’ve “seen everything” is nice too.
As an INFP, I fully expected us to be either the absolute oldest or the absolute youngest, there was no in between in my mind. I laughed so hard as you were trying to figure out where to put us. 🤣 We are for sure the strangest personality type I have come across!
FR EVEN I SOMETIMES TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW COULD I SUCCEED TO BE THAT WEIRD ESP WHEN I WATCH SOME VIDEOS OF MYSELF RANDOMLY AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF I SHOULD BE PROUD OF IT OSRJGIRSHWSHNK
As an INTJ I absolutely am the "get off my lawn" old lady 😂 But I also love diving into a deep conversations about a seemingly random but very specific topics. I also like cute things. There was a cartoon drawing I saw years ago of a girl dressed entirely in black and just ignoring yet observing others around. But at home she was wearing cute fuzzy pajamas. Accurate.
This comment is how I interact with the perils of the outside world. Aggressively, sometimes philosophically, and showing a side that I much prefer over my usual.
I'm an INFP. While driving, I often entertain myself by thinking clouds are dragons to try to feel how people would feel if such animals would exist and to relativise our size and importance in the universe. I think it illustrates pretty well how to be childish and have deep thoughts at the same time.
I'm an INFP. While driving, I'm often immersed via audio book in such works as 'Mistborn' or 'The Millionaire Mind,' or 'The Lord of the Rings' or 'Midnight at Chernobyl.' Very much appeals to my being 10 & 70 at the same time.
I can be dead serious, organizing everyone around me to be efficient, and at the same time joking and saying goofy things at work. To me, it's not necessarily opposite. I think people sometimes find me too intense, but I don't really care, and they usually appreciate it in time. I'm INFP, of course.
INFP here ♡˖, I love it how we have our own category (that's lonely ofc) aside for being honoured it's so satisfying we are acknowledged to those who understand this stuff. we rarely have someone to show our true side or someone who really understands!
As an ENTP, I’ve read my childhood diary and poetry many times as an adult and thought “wow, I truly haven’t changed at my core…and I love that about myself”. My life is all about making sure my inner child becomes self-actualized.
Right!! I’m such a kid and old at the same time. I still play the sims at 27 and played since I was 4. We’re just curious about life and want to know everything which is what keeps us young and fresh. No expired milk here
Playful and fun like a 12yr old - sure… But between our intuition and pattern recognition abilities means more often than not we DO “know it all.” So we’re kind of like the Sage in top of the mountain -but when we dispense our wisdom, we add a couple fart jokes just for fun 🤷🏼♀️
@@revolutionfrommahbed4246Exactly! Once I got older I personally realised that I actually *didn’t* know everything, and then proceeded to spend the rest of my life up until now making sure that I do…
I relate - tho I have multiple ages that become dominant depending on context. They are 5, 8, 17 & 90+ (that last one may not be present for all ENTP but I acquired it in the course of my life (before actually hitting that age or close)
12:49 Truer words have never been spoken. INFPs are like philosophers writing down their thoughts one minute, then scream-singing some anime song the next...when no one's around, of course. "Robert Smith being weird" is probably one of the finest examples on the youtubes of an INFP acting not so "ancient."
I'm ISTJ here. I approve of where you put us on the age chart. I was "that child" in the sandbox. I married an INFP and I have yet to figure out if he acts older or younger than I do. One minute he is having more fun playing dinosaurs with a 4 year old than the child is, the next he looks like he is Gandalf carrying the weight of middle earth on his shoulders and has a zero fun attitude about him that can only be described as Carl from Up. Our personalities clash a lot but only if he speaks too much gibberish that I can't make sense of. Once he can later translate it to understandable English, things run smoothly. 😂 I think inside the box. If I do think outside of the box, it is simply thinking in a *different* box. His thinking has no box or no boundaries. His mind is like a galaxy that is filled with more imagination than I could ever dream to have. I always love it when he takes me on trips into his imagination. (In the safety of my rocketship box) 😂
Frank, you know INTJs so well. I was just about to respond to your placement of my type on your yardstick when you offered us the opportunity to angrily respond! Made me laugh but not out loud. P.S. INTJs are old souls from childhood. In some ways, we’re burdened with purpose because intuitively we understand consequence, which drives our need to plan a better way. I’d put us in the ancient category because building for the sake of building, a young adult’s reasoning, is not our motivator. It’s to save the world from what we know can happen BECAUSE WE KNOW WE’RE RIGHT!!! (A bit grandiose, aren’t we?!!)
I'm an INFP , and when you put the piece of paper for that type to the side for later I was thinking, "yep that's me!" 😂 And the whole time when you were going back and forth, finally settling on splitting the INFP between baby and ancient, I was laughing Hard! 🤣
Yeah like before he placed the INFP in my mind I thought the only way this would work as if he splits it and puts it in both the ancient and the baby. Then he puts it off to the side and I'm like oh well I guess that could work I guess if you can't split it or put it in both. Way out of the way of any of the categories would work. Then it goes back and splits it and puts it there and it's the whole thing and I'm just like, I knew it. 😂 This was a fun video.
You have indeed captured the INFP. My mom is exactly as you described. And as an INTJ I truly value the deep conversations we have that no one else really gets and also the crazy convos we have that leave us laughing on the floor with our sides hurting. Truly an infinite ageless loop of a personality.
I'm an INFP and both my mom and close brother are INTJs. I have never related to a comment more. They are my best friends, and my brother and I will leave people behind with our joint abstractness. My dad is also an INFP, leading me to believe it's a perfect personality combination.
I'm an INFP and I've never met an INTJ... Never... And I think it's the perfect personality. They're honest, practical and they have dominant Ni. All I want.
@@joanaborrellsanchez9225INTJ's 'in the wild' we go into either camouflage or chameleon mode, it's possible you've met/seen us before but just not in depth and we came across as ..I dare say it...an 'extrovert' 😅
My INTP boyfriend literally complimented me (I am an INFP) by saying when we first met he thought I was pretty but like super dumb. Just air headed now really here. So he had not much interest in me. Until I randomly started crying while talking to him with a smile on my face. He said it was creepy but now he was curious. No one just starts crying while talking with a smile plasterd. I ended up opening up to him about how basically traumtizing my life was at an early age & that I force myself to wake up everyday by living in a constant state of delusion. If I am constantly in a fanasty world I never have to be sad, but when I remember why I am forcing this upon myself I get sad & my mask breaks temporarily. He developed a crush on me after realizing I wasn't some dumb blonde with no substance. But instead I had a lot of depth to me & actually incredibly intelligent for my age. He liked that everyday he always learned something new about me. Even now I still surprise him with new things. I can keep him intellectually simulated plus make him actually emotional when he's normally an unemotional person I changed his perspective on something when he was sure he was right. Both stubborn ngl- I can compromise a lot more though Anyways I am the delusional old lady who will bake you cookies while still thinking my mom is still alive. Edit: The last two commenters take the fun out of every room they walk into. Give them your condolences
I'm an INTJ and not INTP but i can relate to finding someone ditzy and not liking them at first, but later realizing that there was a lot more to them than I initially pegged them. In general, learning more about people and getting my curiousity stated is one of my favorite experiences. I don't find a lot of interesting, compelling people in general though.
@@cultreader9751 INTJ & INTP are similar when it comes to not liking dumb people from what I have noticed. But yeah surface level people can be uninteresting. Nothing to discover, but I think there is beauty in their simplicity. Get exactly what was advertised. It's comfortable. Except to my boyfriend, he says they're boring & doesn't see how I can find that interesting. Then I say it's the most trustworthy option, they're not any different on the inside than they are on the outside.
INFP here and you got it exactly right! In some life seasons I feel like a little kid. I am the fun aunt that jumps on the trampoline with my niece and nephews and plays all the games with them. I love looking at Christmas lights and I get so excited by stupid little silly things. But at the same time, when life is really hard I feel ancient. I feel like I've gone through so much in my life and I feel things so deeply that it's utterly exhausting and I feel as though I am much older than I am. You did the only thing you could do by putting us in both categories. This is what it's like to be an INFP. We are a living paradox.
😂😂 I felt every emotion like I was that sheet of paper during the entire video. The loneliness and the inability to tell if I felt older or younger. It's hard being an INFP. Being a wise, childish old man is the best place.
Before watching the video, I was pondering how old I feel as an INFP with a chronological age of 25. On one hand, I feel like a child; I can get extremely happy or upset about little things, and I believe I still haven't grown up. On the other hand, I'm more mature than my peers, as if I've reached the end of my life; I keep contemplating the ultimate purpose of life. In short, I found myself torn between two extremes. After watching the video, I couldn't believe it; my eyes welled up with tears. I'm astonished by how well you understand this - you explained the INFP personality perfectly. Thank you. ❤🎉
I'm INFP and that's the best descirption of INFP I ever seen in my life :3 Even since I was a little child, I didn't act like one. I kinda never "fit my age", I always befriended those, who were younger or older than me. I was too mature and too childish to my classmates at the same time. It's a bit upsetting,but I could switch between kid and adult/elder in a second and because of that I could learn from them a lot of things. It's kinda win-win for me but I needed to grow up to accept this xd I think our emotional intelligence, wild imagination, empathy and sensitivity help us to "live more than once", and help us to deal with people expericenced by life. At the same time this child-like curiosity, idealism, innocence and avoiding conflicts make us look immature.
this sounds weird but thank you for breaking us in half lmao. I feel much more at peace knowing that there is no need to classify us and we can simply be two things at once.
I am honestly surprised by the categorization of my personality type (INFP). The "being ancient (or old?) and childish at the same time" bit is so accurate. There is one time that I attented a funeral and I approached someone who is still emotional and I asked the typical asking assurance questions i.e. "Are you alright?" related-type of questions. Then we started a conversation contemplating the "whys of life" and the "uncertainties" of human existence and "death". Then out of nowhere, I said within the lines of: "Death is an act of deliverance into the being that we were once meant to be. We may never get to see them through our eyes, feel them with our hands, and such but their footprint that they left within this land will always remain within the confines of our minds and hearts". And they were shocked asking how do I know these stuff and I just replied: Idk tbh... eh idk now lol
Yeah we can grasp and comprehend the idea of how we came to understand these things but these sort of things are abstract and dont like logic, reason, and order, hence why its hard to explain, i think the trick to understanding things is understanding that logic and reason cant fully explain abstract ideas, so you need to let go of thinking that it has to make sense, or proceed linearly, life is not linear, plus logic and reason will never be able to explain where creation itself came from, but it exists so there has to be a why to the existance of existance, or the reality that things exist, cause there cant be a cause to cause an effect without something causing the cause, that caused the effect.
could you please explain what did you mean with that you Said? I just dont get what Is it that you were trying to say, maybe becuase I dont really speak english but it may Also not be
I'm an INFP as well and I just love how I'm able to understand the complex nature of existance and dig really deeply into my feelings breaking them down so I could understand the exact thing that caused that feeling and realize how to simplify my analasys in order to explain how I'm feeling or my thoughts on something eternal. However, when somebody asks me why I do this or any other thing I do I'm like It's just fun.
@@savanger953YOU just said it...I recently got to know my personality type...for a very long time thought there might hardly be anyone who can relate with me, Thought myself as a stupid and also wise and mature simultaneously for thinking about this trivial existential stuff, it's a really mixed up feeling can't be put into words life seemed so ugly and beautiful at the same time,but now I can see there are many people like me, at first I used hate my personality type thinking why can't I be normal like other people even if others think I am blending with them I know myself that "I can't open up"the fear of judgement and branding myself as an outcast...now I am growing to love me as myself, this kind of filling that I can feel is exclusive to myself it's shinning bright and I am loving every bit of it,hope I can meet an INFP like myself in person someday, I used to think I have seen it all in this small 19 year of my life,now I know there is much more to come, much more things to see grow and fall,much more hardship I would feel,many times I would cry and laugh and I am grateful for it all, I am glad I get to live in this human body of flesh and blood. THANKS EVERYONE JUST FOR EXISTING, HAVE A GREAT DAY person on the internet.
oh my god the INFP one is so accurate, as a kid I was constantly told that I'm wise for my age and as an adult I feel like a kid in an adult body 😂 But I feel like I retain both sides and use them when it's neccessary ☺
I'm an INFP and I just love how I'm able to understand the complex nature of existance and dig really deeply into my feelings breaking them down so I could understand the exact thing that caused that feeling and realize how to simplify my analasys in order to explain how I'm feeling or my thoughts on something eternal. However, when somebody asks me why I do this or any other thing I do I'm like It's just fun.
As an ENFP who is now in his late 60s, I have noticed that I am more balanced and have become a lot more balanced in my outlook and actions. Life has beaten the crap, er, smoothed off the rough edges, er, taught me that there is no one way to be. I started off life as an old soul due to tragedy and abuse, got out of the situation, became the child I never got to be, got smooshed by life because of it, became more introverted but no less reflective, and still like people. I suspect that this happens a lot to people as they age no matter their Myers-Briggs personality. I enjoy being alone but when I am around people I like, which is almost everyone, they can't get me to shut up. Hence, my comments on YouBoob for people who don't really care. 😁
Spot on for the infp part! And I love how people only see the naive baby part at first, which is quite evident when you look at me and it looks like I am having the time of my life playing with a ladybug, and then, they start asking questions, and get to know my experience in life, and they realize I have litteraly lived many many lives already and there is an old bear with a sword hiding inside. Something I find amusing in that 😅
Totally relate, although I tend to watch bees more than ladybugs. There's something magical and somber about watching all the different species of bees interacting in my flower bed while also contemplating their march toward extinction due to humanity's impact on the environment.
I can't believe what you did with the INFP! First, you isolated it, and then you split it between the Ancient and the ultimate Baby. Man, this is SO true! I feel like an old soul who understands and has experienced the greatest of loves and the deepest of griefs but still with this childlike wonder and even naivety. I'm so dreamy but can also be such a bleak realist. Thank you for being the first to accurately describe the unique INFP.
As an ISFP, I totally agree with you on that one. I don't have ADHD, but my personality type mimics it quite well. It's very hard to concentrate on what I'm doing because I'm always thinking about what I'll be doing next. My optimal output usually comes from having two or more projects going simultaneously and jumping back and forth between them.
@Moon_Savior Same here. I'm 45, and it's been such a mystery my whole life. It was always, "Not quite ADD and not quite ADHD..." It was very elusive and very frustrating.
People keep telling me I need to see a psychiatrist I might have a couple things, but I think a lot of it is my personality and other things could be something. 😅I don't know It's in my to do list.
As an INFP I agree, I’m usually like the most childish person you’ll ever meet but if you really talk with me you’ll learn that I have the most deepest thoughts you’ve ever heard of
As an 18 year old INTP I did indeed experience my first mid life crisis already. source: my therapist. She literally told me I blurted out every thought and emotion of 40 year old patients she’s had. How ironic.
INFP here, so many times in life i feel like I'm stuck watching my friends and family make mistakes that seem so obvious (dating manipulative people, thinking their actions wont have consequences, blaming others for their own issues, etc.). I feel like I have that lifetime of wisdom and experience to know better than to do what they are. Yet at the same time I still have that hope/idealism that lets me see the world for what it should/could be and strive to work towards that kind of life for myself and those around me. Your placement for us couldn't be any more fitting, Wise beyond our years, but "held back" (depending on your perspective) by a childlike Idealism. Able to view the world both for what it is AND for what it could be.
@@unionunicorn6776well personally I would still say that being naive is a bad thing. Choosing to live life in denial or clinging to a fantasy is unhealthy both for the naive individual and those around them. But a lot of people confuse idealism for naivety when the two are completely different. Idealism is seeing the difference between what is and what could be and choosing to work hard so that reality can edge closer to the ideal, where as In My personal experience naivety often means seeing the world through a lens of idealism and insisting that it is reality. Those who are naive are unable to see that difference. Choosing instead to believe that they have already achieved the ideal and need not try any further.
INFP here chiming in. A guy friend once told me years ago that I am “a dichotomy…simultaneously an 80-year-old wise sage and a 5-year-old little girl.” I had never heard someone up to that point estimate me so succinctly.
I'm an ISFJ and this is so relatable. I'm currently in my twenties but my ENTJ sister who's younger than I am says I act like an old lady. 😂😂😭😭 My younger brother is an INFJ (he's in his twenties as well) and even I think his reasoning is really mature for his age.
Wow, I’m an INFP and you’re so right that we’re both really young and really old at the same time. That basically sums me up. For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt like I’m really a little old lady trapped in a younger body. At the same time, I admittedly have a naive and childlike view of the world sometimes.
Duuuude. This was brilliant! I expected it to be funny and quirky like your normal videos, which it was, but wow! I'm an INFJ, but that stuff about the INFP brought me to tears. In a good way. NICE work!
I am both INTJ and INTP from the latest tests this year. At first, I'd say I am old (like an 80 yr old granny) but the older I am, the more I learn how much I don't know. Apart from my look, people really can't tell how old I am. I think it could be my forever curiosity and the futuristic mind. Interesting, for the teen. Yet I don't mind. I'm growing every day, anyways...
Several things I learned while watching this: 1. Editor Kevin is my favorite human being (this is subject to change). I have laughed really hard at the wild, blink-or-you'll-miss-it jokes he threw in there while watching this. He has infinitely made this channel so much better. 2. Interesting that Frank tied the ENFP and ENTJ with each other. IMHO, ENFPs do tend to be more emotionally mature than ENTJs but ENTJs are pretty analytical and more go-getter than ENFPs. For example, ENTJs tend to be the bossy ones in the group, but ENFPs do tend to not listen and do their own thing since ENTJs do tend to overreact to certain things. ENTJs over time will respect ENFP's boundaries and sense of wonder and will let them do things the way they do them. 3. Funny how Frank ranks INFJs pretty high on this scale (no bias at all lol), but I would argue that INTJs belong up there with the INFJs. INFJs have a very emotional core which they hide very well. INTJs may know how to temper their emotions better, but they might have a hard time addressing how they feel. Though INFJs are more open, INTJs are hardened. I'm on the fence whether INFJs are older than INTJs, but I think INTJs do have a wisdom beyond their years which should not be disregarded. 4. Glad Frank redeemed himself after unnecessarily bashing the INFPs in the last ranking video. However, I think more thought should be given in regard to the youthfulness of the INFP. They do appear to be paradoxical since they have a youthful sense of wonder, but also a taste for the ancient and finer things in life. I would put them lower than the INTJs for that, but still pretty high. This is the rant of an ENFP who obviously is pretty biased. I do not know many Sensors so I cannot speak as to their ranking. Take what I say with a grain of salt!
As an INFP, what's daunting about your videos is, besides your transparent level of intuition and intelligence, the fact that you are visibly not an INFP, but you give INFPs a special attention in so many of the videos, and it's an attention made of an ideal mix of sympathy and humour, ... and I have never seen someone understand INFPs, while not being an INFP, as you can. Like with the "pain box" in the INFP brain video. How can a non-INFP know about that?! The same goes here with this video, where you intuited (and I have no idea how you could) that we are the oldest, but also young, for ever.
As an INFP I was wondering where you would put us. Because on one hand, I often run around like a toddler being amazed by so many little things, but then again people told me I am an "old soul". So what you did just feels very appropriate!
As an ISTP, I usually act younger than my age (probably because I get told that I look younger than my age). But I feel like my mental age is older than a lot of others. I have a very disciplined and serious side when I'm in the focused mode (which I think others see me as a little scary because of it). So, this feels accurate.
Relatable. People tend to think I'm younger than I am too. I'm pretty sure it's because of my height even though when they explain it they say it's because of how my face looks. They can't fool me...
ISTP's can seem intimidating to others because they usually have things all thought out. That's why we are in the old category when it comes to process. But, I agree with others saying I seem younger than my age. There's something in or spirits that drive us to play hard.
I used to look much younger than my age, but now I just look like an old hag! And feel it. Even as a teenager, I felt old, old, old, and yet I also feel like I can't grow up. The biggest problem I find is that very few people can relate to me on any level, and it doesn't help that I generally lack effective communication skills. I used to absorb new information like a sponge and always analyzed every tidbit of information. The end result is almost like an overloaded computer, trying to correlate all the data. Cause and effect going in endless circles. I have taken the M-B a few times, and the result each time was (I was told) unusually strong. Am I alone in this?
As an INTJ, I have never identified with teenagers with the exception of being ready and willing to critically think through others' plans (i.e. criticize). As a child, teenager, and young adult, I've been more ready to identify with seniors (my grandparents, church members) than most groups, but I have also been far more adept at technology than them. It makes more sense for INTJs to be placed at middle-aged or at a crotchety old soul who is ready and willing to tell people how things should be.
💯I've never known an INTJ that was truly "young at heart." To classify INTJ as teenagers based on them being future focused is irrational. Teenagers are mostly focused on their peers and living in the moment. There is very little strategic planning and outcome-based thinking. I think he was just trying to put some surprises in the vid (and generate comments).
I think INTJs do have inherently have a certain level of curiosity that can only be described as childlike; which is probably why we can get obsessed with things...the rest of the time 💯 we are like old people... the INTJ juxtaposition
@@crwlh6721 Exactly. I'm a 13-year-old INTP and I definitely don't see other teens as strategic or future-focused. I honestly just think they're irresponsible, which makes it hard for me to make friends.
As an INTJ I can confirm that our age is a young adoult. I've noticed that I and other INTJ have that hope within them, but not a childish hope, a romantic hope, belive that we can make word better, love for future and ambition. Basically every positive aspect of young adoult mindset. We can see hope where other adoults give up.
As a INFP I can relate to that. I get along with much older people and they say that I'm quite far for my age (I'm 24) because of how I see the world and the amount responsity I take. But I'm also able to enjoy the little things in life. I am very happy when I have flowers in my living room or when I have sun sided eggs on toast for breakfast it makes my day. But the one thing that makes me the most happy is making other people happy
Fun facts no one care about: - I'm an ISFJ - I'm from Italy - I love cooking - I love lasagna - I love traditions - I love eating together with both family and friends ........... Oh, and i love your video too ❤
As an INFP, I’ve had a growing suspicion that we were really meant to be the people in the village who can’t really participate in society so we are cloistered and made to be part of the clergy or religious sect and who people go to hit up (like a piñata) when they need a whack of some of that abstract and somewhat vague philosophy that they then can take however they want to make it useful to their lives. This video just added more fuel to the flame of that idea.
My mother is an ESTJ and you are so right about the no thing. She would tell me a week ahead of time that I could go to some event with my friends and then two days before come to my room and say “you know I just changed my mind, no you can’t go”. I would cry and freak out because I had been nothing but good and when I would ask her why she would just say “because I’m the mom”. I could swear that she just loved to say the word no so much, she couldn’t go an entire week without saying it but people thought I was crazy! Thank you for pointing out that they are pros at saying NO for no reason than to just say no lol
I can't figure out whether I'm flattered or offended that the INFJ is so ancient 😂 (INFJ here) Also, I completely agree with you on the INFP. I don't think I've ever met a INFP but from all the research I've done, they seem young and old and almost eternal.
Thank you for not putting infp as a child! I’ve always struggled with people treating me like a child and acting like I’m less mature just because I seem ‘innocent’
Boom. You’ve captured society perfectly. Everyone out there trying to do their best on a line and the INFP floating all over the place knowing things are ever-connected and cyclical.
THIIIIIS 🙌. It just blows my mind that so manny people don't understand that everything and everyone is connected. That's why we suffer with so much emotions because we are able to feel simply by imagening
As an ENFJ, I think your discription was pretty spot on. 😁 As a kid people use to tell me I acted like a little adult, but as I became an adult now over 35 people think I'm younger than I actually am and have commented on how youthful I seem. LOL It's funny and strange, but also cool in my opinion.
As an ENTP I tested at 12 grade level in 5th grade on standardized tests. I never really fit in with people my age but got along great with little kids who just liked to have fun and use their imagination and older people who knew so many cool secrets! I’m now in my 40’s and I haven’t slowed down. I still beat the teenagers at basketball and dodgeball especially now that I know a lot of tricks they don’t. I seem to get along with patients of all ages and I love the stories and perspectives of my oldest patients and the fun and energy of the little kids. I feel like I’m always trying to convince my colleagues to loosen up though lol!
I’m weirdly far along the spectrums too. Not even close to being E or S or F or J. As far as I can tell I haven’t been trying for a specific type when I retake the test. I think I really have pronounced weaknesses that I should work on
As an INFP, my favorite quote for all the time is "There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it" by Romain Rolland.
YES!! ENTJ's are so goal-oriented that we absolutely jump in to help, just to get it done! This is me in my classroom every day with my students. I mean, yes, I'm their teacher, so I'm supposed to help, but I'm talking about my students who are seniors and doing projects that they have multiple days to complete: they'll sit around and not start, and so I throw myself into their group, give them an idea, show them how to start implementing it, and once they've got the idea, I will continually check back to make sure it's working out. Sounds like you've really been learning a lot from your own ENTJ, Frank! 🙂 (And yes, I got the "noh"!)
When I first did the test in high school I (probably appropriately) arrived at INTJ, with a strong T. Around a decade later, I am now INTP, with a very weak T. It seems that the INFP is calling out to me, slowly pulling me in. As you would so eloquently put it, it's as if I've glimpsed the secrets of the universe and have yet to fully process what I saw.
As an INFJ, I consider myself to be kind of an infant because I love shiny objects and snacks, but I think it may make sense for me to be ancient, because I don't like risk of any kind, and I love nurturing people's souls with treats and listening to them talk about their problems.
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Just right in time. Thank you FJ. I need some laugh.
Its okay Frank, i got the theater joke!
Same ❤
fine , the INTJ mental age is not elderly , my large ego can afford that hit .
But did you really have to put the ESFP above us ?
I didn't lost my respect for you because you are the greatest MBTI comedy channel but it seems a bit unfair .
I get that you wanted to illustrate why ESFP's are misunderstood , and i agree but i don't think this is the way to fix it .
it's true that INTJ's think they know everything but it's because we are considering things very deeply and sacrifice our sensory tasks for the purpose of understanding things and gaining experience . you know very well that ESFP's are way more carefree and irresponsible (relatively to INTJ , but in general it's not allwase clear )
Also , great video . Don't let my comment upset you or anything 👍🏻
I love how INFP is just in their own category. 😂 we're eternal.
Frank really knows us despite all his mocking 😂 we are the ancient baby. That's how I've always felt. ❤
Facts!!
I'm a 40 year old, Christian INFP, and my strong impression is that most individuals just... well... 'don't know what to make' of me. At least, in casual or professional settings. I don't think INFP's respond to others in ways others (who are not INFP's) consider normal. You're right, we're in our own category.
Freaking COSMIC! 🎶🌠🌌😴
Yes were a billion yo 😂
How did I just know that the INFP could not be categorised as anything other than a paradoxical loop? Once again, FJ, you seem to have fully understood how we INFPs view ourselves and the world.👏👏👏
Yeah, we are 8 and 80 years old at the same time, being old souls with a more childlike view on the world, daydreaming how it could be or should be :D
Yeah he nailed that one!
100% on the INFP. Probably why I have so many "old lady hobbies", but also have the attention span of a goldfish. And start new projects every week.
I finally can understand why my INFP idols look like old people and babies at the same time. 😂😂😂
I am an INFP and this video made me feel Truman Show-ed. No I will not explain, you already know.
As an INFP, I can confirm that you're 100% correct. I'm pretty much everywhere on the age scale depending on the situation and my emotions lol
@@ΜΑΡΓΑΡΙΤΑΔΑΛΑΜΠΟΥΡΑ We do have the power of speech in our hands when we need it though
@maskedanimatronic147 Can confirm this is true as well, lol
Same 😂
Couldn’t agree more lmao😂
So true
As an INTP, I kinda feel like we appear like we age backward. We’re very mature for our age when we’re younger and then eventually there’s a crossover and we’re still perpetual children even as adults.
IKRRR I literally said that to a friend of mine recently that i feel like i age backwardss
That's because we've been here before 😆
Exactly, the curiosity and social awkwardness doesn't really go away. We seem as well behaved mature kids for naturally good grades and not getting in trouble much. But the secret is that deep down we are perpetually immature, only showing that wacky side of us to selected few. When we grow up and academia success is not the most important marker for maturity anymore, we lag behind. We're not the ones to dive into relationships and families as everything must be thought and overthought to highest details. Making (at least semi) permanent decisions like partnership and housing the bane of us, because what if, what if, what if. May even translate into jobs "what if something better is around the corner, I don't want to be stuck here". Our indecisive need of always keeping one foot out can be bane of our commitment, which is usually maturity marker later on. Unless the stars align and we're fully passionate and engulfed in our commitments. I wish the life worth obsessing over to all my fellow INTPs 😆.
as another intp i think i kind a disagree, we're always mid in everything, i have entj and intj as my siblings and their mental age was older when they were at my age, of course we get things done eventually by not even trying to, whether if its about understanding others intentions and living our own path, but we're always in the middle of "should i leave everything' and ' i need attention' zone, we're really like young adults that has both sides
Me to a T....It's a curse
My best friend is a very stereotypical INFP. She has a lot of childlike interests and often acts like a 13 year old (she's actually 19), but when someone hurts her feelings, her morals or her interests, she becomes the most mature and wisest person in the room. She's childish on the outside, maybe to cope with her problems, but is internally extremely mature.
My bff is also infp and yes!! I totally agree with the way you described it
Yeah i have infp friend she is just like how you say,she is mature but she don't like to act like it she is kinda toxic so she act all crybaby and childish but she know how she act some of the time
I’m an Infp and that’s also how my father described me once, quite spot on. I’m also a Pisces so that might explain the wise characteristic
@@leedlbagginshield8492Pisces and INFP combined. Im Right here with ya 😂
That sounds like me as well. It's really beautiful that you recognize all those things in her. As an INFP, she's probably noticed and really appreciates the way you see her, and knows very much all the beautiful things about you!
As an INFP I can confirm.. I have been told, that I am an old soul living in a wrong century AND I have been told that im immature and I have to grow up. I was genuinely expecting Frank to divide INFPs into ancient and baby. Life would be easier for us it we could actually take some kind of benefit from both sides of maturity, it is more likely used against us. We are either too "boring" and not wanting to join in on other people´s fun activities, or acting childish and super silly and doing random goofy things, which makes people uncomfortable, why are we so silly when your not 10 anymore, and why are we so bored and uninterested, when we are not 70. It is sure a journey.
We have too much going on, and thus should not be bothered by what they say (but it stays forever).
We should just tell those people to get off our lawns, then go roll around on it. Whimsy.
OMG I feel that so much as INFP as well... I either ruin the fun cause I'm not joining in, OR I'm being so silly that it's too much and people think I'm annoying :D
It's so great :D (/sar)
Let this comment/reply section to be a home for all us INFPs to come to and feel safe and understood🙏
Oh shoot. The relatability of this post made me laugh so hard. God, I just hate being like this. And I have been like this for ages, since birth maybe. Somehow I can't change it. I don't want to at times. But like what the hell! It's really disadvantageous. Doesn't it make INFPs less attractive in conventional terms? I feel that all the time. I hate it. Its sometimes like being bipolar. And you know what! you are not actually getting on the side of anyone by being like this but still you still innately remain like this. Not joining in when you could have benefitted from it because hey, it's too much and then doing really random stuff that no one can make a head or tail of.( I like doing the random stuff to be honest). Nowadays, it's like the whole world is having a party. And you want to have fun but there's a zip going on prompting you not go and to feel left out like an observer, never a participant. I am sorry for ranting like this. It might not come off as much coherent. I just wanted to share.
@@jaironracsothesilentninjas9562I hope so too
As an INFP, I was pleasantly surprised and honored to be given that much consideration and having a category just for my type.
Like yes, I do act like a child, but I feel much older on the inside. It's just that, I don't think anyone would believe me if I say I'm mature unless I act like it, and it's just hard. I was half expecting to be put in baby section but I'm so glad that someone actually acknowledged our (atleast mine) true mental age.
That's because we don't open up to most people. They don't know what to say because we sound awkward if we are forced to do smalltalk but if someone would ask us straight up what our opinion on slavery, human traffiking, space, the deep sea, death and life etc. Are we would open up and start a deep conversation
true
but even I see myself as pretty childish at times and others around me also agree
but inside i definitely dont feel like a child@@Cuteemogirl94
same! (✿ ♡‿♡)
We are like the yin and yang of being an adult and a child.
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... did you just imply that INFP's are some kind of ouroboros infinity loop of senile, child-like elders? That mentally, I am both too old AND too young to responsibly watch a pg-13 movie by myself without uncontrollably bursting into tears? How DARE, sir! We will (probably not) talk about this after my naptime!!!
that is exactly the implication
i agree a hundred percent
This comment deserves a pin 😂😂😂😂😂
This comment... my favorite.
Naptimes are needed always!
As someone who is about as INFP as possible, this could not have been more accurate. I recently had to write a memoir of my adolescence for an education class focusing on the adolescent, and I basically came to the conclusion that I feel like I have simultaneously been an adult since I was 5, and yet am still very much a sensitive child in my 20s, and I am not entirely if I ever had an adolescence, or if I am just going to be perpetually stuck in adolescence because I feel like I am both an adult and a child at the same time.
Relatable.
So true!
Exactly as I feel! As a teen, I've always wondered why I am more 'mature' than the adults.. but now as a mid-20s person, I do do things I wanted to do as a teen, while feeling like a baby, and acting like a elderly person
Wait...not everyone feels like that? Is this really specific to us INFP? Go figure...
i mean... my username says it all 😭
unpopular onion: real INFJs won't skip the video just to see the INFJ part lmao frfr
Because to us, we always love to read each character. Especially from fellow INFJ
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As an INFJ, I didn't skip at all! I def agree with this!
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Frank, those last few minutes about the INFP were way deeper than I thought they'd be, and honestly I'm so glad someone said it for me. I've literally felt EXACTLY like that - so young at heart, yet...so, so old. On the surface, we might seem pretty naive and oblivious to a lot of things, but deep inside of us, we have an entire world with dark places that so many people haven't even begun to explore yet.
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This is so real, sometimes I feel like a massive baby and at other times I feel like I've lived through centuries, it's pretty strange tbh but I wouldn't have it any other way
So so true. People will be calling us naive but many times can’t be as deep in thoughts and feelings. We get excited over silly things but also sympathize with the cosmic truth of life. 😂
@@zahirasahar9491 Beautifully worded. 🥺 I completely agree.
As an INFJ who loves a suspected INFP very much. I wholeheartedly agree. They really are capable of childlike wonder and openness and the maturity and single-mindedness of old age at the same time.^^
My wife and I are both INFP.
Agreed! I'm INFJ and my hubby over over 20 years is confirmed INFP. He is so much more interested and open to new possibliities and opportunities than me, which has been really good for me to learn from him, but at the same time, our deep convos are on such a deep (high?) wavelength that no average person would get what he's even talking about, so definitely ancient wisdom from that perspective!
As an INFJ in a relationship with an INFP I can confirm that we emotionally connect on our ancient level but I also love my partner‘s childlike behavior which comes out once or twice everday.
Thank you thank you so much
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As an INFJ, I was wondering if I should try dating an ENFJ or INFP because I love them both. But now I think that a childish INFP man would be good for my mature and organized personality.
As an INFP myself, I KNEW they were going to be difficult to categorize here... we are somehow both like a child that is first experiencing the wonders of the world, yet also an ancient poet who has wisdom gathered from many years in nature...
yet also like a depressed emo teen 😭xD
EDIT: HAHAH the ending was perfect oml
Best friends with an infp, yes.
I would say that makes the ANCIENT. If you actually talk to someone who is very close to the end of their life they are very much that way. They have REGAINED the wonder of every little thing in the world but at the same time they have experienced so much that they are easily weighed down by even small sorrows because there are so many great sorrows that it reminds them of.
I can relate, I am the student and teacher forever. Perceived as young and mentally old at the same time.
exactly
I've often described myself as a kindergartener with decades of experience, so yep.
I am an INFJ and I clicked this video out of pure curiosity. I have to admit I started rolling from laughter when you categorized my personality type in 'ancient' and brought up the e-mail bit, because my social media is literally filled with a bunch of (re)posts of inspirational and motivational quotes, tutorials, relaxing scenery, helpful tips, cute things that make people smile, etc. In my case, you totally nailed it 😂
Same
Same but mine only have motivational quotes inspirational stuff and funny things
Same with foreign language learning stuff
@@srs1659 Me too. Im also INFJ and I really like learning foreign languaeges.
Um…. I wonder if that makes us highly marketable to people who (for once?) aren’t trying to sell us anything (“just inspiration”)
As an INFP I think that our position being both the oldest and youngest really fits. I do constantly have my head in the clouds and act kind of childish but since I was younger I realized I had more adult-like thoughts than most kids my age. I don't know how or why but it really does feel just right to be both the youngest and the oldest in terms of mental age.
"Life is not a straight line but an endless circle" You took us on a roller coaster ride and land us eventually on a wisdom field.
Frank is the best one to make a closing scene 😎👍
As an INFP, I sometimes feel like a part of me is too old for this life already, but at the same time, I'm also still the child I was younger. It's really strange and hard to explain but yep, that how I feel about my mental age at least.
Update : just saw the end of the video and it's perfect xD
I think it's like mentally we already experienced a lot but in reality we have tried too little xD
agreed hgvjbknj
I liked the ending too! It’s like a circle. I’ve always described the INFP to myself as like I was frozen in time at a young age (maybe mid-teens?) and eternal like I’m young still in spirit but lived a long time, kind of like tuck everlasting
@@littlebluefishyOMG yes yes yes this, thank you ! So true for me 😅
INFP is accurate as always. I act like I'm 12 and feel like I'm 70. And everything in between at all times
For me it's the other way around. I act like a 70 year old but feel like I am 10, haha...
I'm in the middle and I feel both ways. It's insane. I also love how you described this. It made me think of life path #'s and how I'm a 9, which is described as the beginning and the end.
As an INFP I was at a party this summer and someone said they weren't sure if I was 21 or 21,000, so I can confirm that you got it right.
When I was 15, people thought I was 30. At 30, people thought I was 20.
This is my favorite of all your explanations of INFP! Cryer, goofball, AND deep thinker. No wonder I have a hard time figuring out what mental age I am. Thanks for this video to help me understand better!
I once did a random what's your mental age test and got the result that my mental age was 18. Then I did the same test again and selected the least likely options for my least accurate mental age. And got 19. 😆 Analyzing the questions and my answers the results provided, I basically answered so completely opposite ends of the spectrum between 1-40 that the test got confused and threw me in the middle somewhere, and then I did the opposite, which still was so divided that I was thrown in the middle anyway. My actual age at the time was 17.
My family's mental ages:
Me (INTJ) = ~ 40 years
Son (INTP) = ~ 21 years
Husband (INFJ) = ~ 1000 years
Home atmosphere = relentlessly intense
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you mean in tents? 💀
Yeah idk about asinigning this to my family but we blended 3 families. Ex passive agressive and his daughter( pulled between 2 coasts) narcissist, ME ADD, my son ADHD, 2 Adooted natural brother and sister. He HAS ADHD & PTSD issues from his abusive birth home, she is bi- polar, Oppositional defiant, ADHD. They were adopted from my 1st cousin. Bad drug & abusive situation. Husband is a NASA engineer, I'm an interior designer home remodeled, older son MMA fighter physical trainer, his daughter accountant, younger odd daughter hair stylist, younger son USMC VETERAN, engineer .SO we all survived the pandemonium and shenanigans surfaced successfully. Now add 5 grandsons 🥰😍
its scary how you're all introverts...
Mom is that you? (Jk
I am still convinced that INTPs (including myself) reach the mental age of 15 at 10 years old and just stop aging. We just get more experienced at being a 15 year old.
I kind of get it. It's like instead of becoming more mature, you just become more experienced so the maturity level remains constant. I'm not so sure what age I was at 10 but apparently all my family thought I acted like I was 70.
WHY IS THIS SO TRUEE
THIS IS SO VALIDATING 😂❤
Swear this is me, too.
Yes. It's quite the exquisite experience.
I agree wholeheartedly about IN FP’s being both old and young. Shakespeare’s 7 stages of life soliloquy sums it up perfectly, that being extremely old returns us to another childlike state of incognizance.
I love how you rank us INFPs by simply cuting us in half and putting us at the top and bottom. Made me chuckle 😅
How did you manage to capture the essence of what it's like to be an INFP in such a charming, funny, insightful way? Love it!
Reading all of the comments about how us INFPs feel makes me suddenly feel not so alone. Thanks guys😌
I am loving the comments too
@@TylenOneal239Heya! ^_^
no problem bro
Well, this INFJ did not skip to the INFJ part. Hehe. I guess my mental age told me it's important to care about everyone. I would have to agree with at least my type and the INFP (the two types I know most about, lol). I remember giving advice to my friends from a very young age. I like this style of edutainment, with the comedic graphics, etc. Thanks for the early access and the reminder about "kick." I needed that today. Always appreciate your tutelage, Frank.☺️
yay, glad you liked it!!
Yes on the giving of advice. All my life I've done it, whether they want advice or not!
@@meagiesmuse2334 Lol. I try not to unless asked. Sometimes I can't help myself, though. 🤭
Hahah Guess we infj’s just don’t skip getting more info and understanding of other people.
I also didn't skip just to find out where the INFJ one was at (then again its a no brainer to know where we'd end up so it just wasn't worth bothering to skip) 😂 I was way more curious about how the overall ranking would look like and how it all would come together ☺️. More info on others? Gimme, I alrrady know enough about myself age-wise 👵
As an INFP, I cannot agree more. I literally had goosebumps at the end. Finally, someone who understands!
Same bro same..
YES.🗿🗿
As an INFP, it's funny that with the basic common sense pertaining the practical aspect of life, I'm such a beginner navigating my way through it; but in the meantime, I also have the comprehension of "life" in a much larger sense since a young age. I remember in college, a friend told me that "you have a youthful spirit but also an old soul". I always like to compare life as a game, and I would say that, I have a pretty good understanding of the concept of the game, but pretty slow at actually playing the game. I'm very comfortable just staying out of everything and just observing human.
Amazing way to view INFP. I was ok being in my own category, but an ancient baby sounds nice too. I guess it’s because we shape our personality to match with the person we’re talking to, so it’s hard to see where we belong in terms of “mental age”. I think what you said about us seeming like we’ve “seen everything” is nice too.
“Ancient baby” 😂
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@@sharon5259 "Prehistoric baby"
As an INFP, I fully expected us to be either the absolute oldest or the absolute youngest, there was no in between in my mind. I laughed so hard as you were trying to figure out where to put us. 🤣 We are for sure the strangest personality type I have come across!
We're like Bustling with knowledge yet, Cry for the Thing that we want eagerly 😂😂😂😂
@@patu5956wao this makes sense. 😮
FR EVEN I SOMETIMES TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW COULD I SUCCEED TO BE THAT WEIRD ESP WHEN I WATCH SOME VIDEOS OF MYSELF RANDOMLY AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF I SHOULD BE PROUD OF IT OSRJGIRSHWSHNK
My favorite INFP’s are John Green, Rhett McLaughlin and my therapist. I think Frank got them completely right.
As an INTJ I absolutely am the "get off my lawn" old lady 😂 But I also love diving into a deep conversations about a seemingly random but very specific topics. I also like cute things. There was a cartoon drawing I saw years ago of a girl dressed entirely in black and just ignoring yet observing others around. But at home she was wearing cute fuzzy pajamas. Accurate.
I'm not really a Get Off My Lawn 62yo gal but more a Get Out of My Way/Sight sort, lol...
This comment is how I interact with the perils of the outside world. Aggressively, sometimes philosophically, and showing a side that I much prefer over my usual.
get off my lawn lol
I love this
INTJ female here. Leave me alone.
I'm an INFP. While driving, I often entertain myself by thinking clouds are dragons to try to feel how people would feel if such animals would exist and to relativise our size and importance in the universe. I think it illustrates pretty well how to be childish and have deep thoughts at the same time.
I'm an INFP. While driving, I'm often immersed via audio book in such works as 'Mistborn' or 'The Millionaire Mind,' or 'The Lord of the Rings' or 'Midnight at Chernobyl.' Very much appeals to my being 10 & 70 at the same time.
I can be dead serious, organizing everyone around me to be efficient, and at the same time joking and saying goofy things at work. To me, it's not necessarily opposite. I think people sometimes find me too intense, but I don't really care, and they usually appreciate it in time. I'm INFP, of course.
As an INFP I had an existential crisis at three.... the beginning of a poem apparently....
Taking edibles as an INFP Capricorn is *SOMETHIN' ELSE.*
@@ianrandolph6436 I've done deep guided drums meditation and I saw so much, that I'm afraid of what I could find if I tried edibles
INFP here ♡˖, I love it how we have our own category (that's lonely ofc) aside for being honoured it's so satisfying we are acknowledged to those who understand this stuff. we rarely have someone to show our true side or someone who really understands!
I am INFJ and having been surrounded by INFPs I can't agree more to this ...✨❤️they are the best people I have
As an ENTP, I’ve read my childhood diary and poetry many times as an adult and thought “wow, I truly haven’t changed at my core…and I love that about myself”. My life is all about making sure my inner child becomes self-actualized.
Right!! I’m such a kid and old at the same time. I still play the sims at 27 and played since I was 4. We’re just curious about life and want to know everything which is what keeps us young and fresh. No expired milk here
@@sim771I read your comment first as "I play Sims 27" and I was like "whoa, when did time fly so fast?"
I need a nap...
Playful and fun like a 12yr old - sure… But between our intuition and pattern recognition abilities means more often than not we DO “know it all.” So we’re kind of like the Sage in top of the mountain -but when we dispense our wisdom, we add a couple fart jokes just for fun 🤷🏼♀️
@@revolutionfrommahbed4246Exactly! Once I got older I personally realised that I actually *didn’t* know everything, and then proceeded to spend the rest of my life up until now making sure that I do…
I relate - tho I have multiple ages that become dominant depending on context. They are 5, 8, 17 & 90+ (that last one may not be present for all ENTP but I acquired it in the course of my life (before actually hitting that age or close)
The 45% of you who skipped to the INFJ part. Wow, talk about calling us all out, Frank! 😂
12:49 Truer words have never been spoken. INFPs are like philosophers writing down their thoughts one minute, then scream-singing some anime song the next...when no one's around, of course. "Robert Smith being weird" is probably one of the finest examples on the youtubes of an INFP acting not so "ancient."
No problem to sing when someone is around :D I even sung the Duck Tales theme at Karaoke.
I'm ISTJ here. I approve of where you put us on the age chart. I was "that child" in the sandbox.
I married an INFP and I have yet to figure out if he acts older or younger than I do. One minute he is having more fun playing dinosaurs with a 4 year old than the child is, the next he looks like he is Gandalf carrying the weight of middle earth on his shoulders and has a zero fun attitude about him that can only be described as Carl from Up.
Our personalities clash a lot but only if he speaks too much gibberish that I can't make sense of. Once he can later translate it to understandable English, things run smoothly. 😂
I think inside the box. If I do think outside of the box, it is simply thinking in a *different* box. His thinking has no box or no boundaries. His mind is like a galaxy that is filled with more imagination than I could ever dream to have. I always love it when he takes me on trips into his imagination. (In the safety of my rocketship box) 😂
Frank, you know INTJs so well. I was just about to respond to your placement of my type on your yardstick when you offered us the opportunity to angrily respond! Made me laugh but not out loud.
P.S. INTJs are old souls from childhood. In some ways, we’re burdened with purpose because intuitively we understand consequence, which drives our need to plan a better way. I’d put us in the ancient category because building for the sake of building, a young adult’s reasoning, is not our motivator. It’s to save the world from what we know can happen BECAUSE WE KNOW WE’RE RIGHT!!! (A bit grandiose, aren’t we?!!)
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yeah but i like anime and action figures and games
Not grandiose if everyone but the INTJ can't understand. They can't keep up with us!
I'm an INFP , and when you put the piece of paper for that type to the side for later I was thinking, "yep that's me!" 😂 And the whole time when you were going back and forth, finally settling on splitting the INFP between baby and ancient, I was laughing Hard! 🤣
Yeah like before he placed the INFP in my mind I thought the only way this would work as if he splits it and puts it in both the ancient and the baby. Then he puts it off to the side and I'm like oh well I guess that could work I guess if you can't split it or put it in both. Way out of the way of any of the categories would work.
Then it goes back and splits it and puts it there and it's the whole thing and I'm just like, I knew it. 😂 This was a fun video.
I also thought we can't be in one category lol. Splitting the paper was ❤
@@wimsylogic65I also feel like in that "pushed aside from whole society" category 😢
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Same! i haven't burst out laughing like that in a minute!
You have indeed captured the INFP. My mom is exactly as you described. And as an INTJ I truly value the deep conversations we have that no one else really gets and also the crazy convos we have that leave us laughing on the floor with our sides hurting. Truly an infinite ageless loop of a personality.
I'm an INFP and both my mom and close brother are INTJs. I have never related to a comment more. They are my best friends, and my brother and I will leave people behind with our joint abstractness. My dad is also an INFP, leading me to believe it's a perfect personality combination.
I'm an INFP and I've never met an INTJ... Never... And I think it's the perfect personality. They're honest, practical and they have dominant Ni. All I want.
@@joanaborrellsanchez9225INTJ's 'in the wild' we go into either camouflage or chameleon mode, it's possible you've met/seen us before but just not in depth and we came across as ..I dare say it...an 'extrovert' 😅
@@anniefarrell9907 Hahaha but I hate that because I'm also an introvert, and I rarely go out... There's no way to meet an INTJ 💔
Just admit it, us infp's are complicated 😂
My INTP boyfriend literally complimented me (I am an INFP) by saying when we first met he thought I was pretty but like super dumb. Just air headed now really here. So he had not much interest in me. Until I randomly started crying while talking to him with a smile on my face. He said it was creepy but now he was curious. No one just starts crying while talking with a smile plasterd.
I ended up opening up to him about how basically traumtizing my life was at an early age & that I force myself to wake up everyday by living in a constant state of delusion. If I am constantly in a fanasty world I never have to be sad, but when I remember why I am forcing this upon myself I get sad & my mask breaks temporarily.
He developed a crush on me after realizing I wasn't some dumb blonde with no substance. But instead I had a lot of depth to me & actually incredibly intelligent for my age.
He liked that everyday he always learned something new about me. Even now I still surprise him with new things.
I can keep him intellectually simulated plus make him actually emotional when he's normally an unemotional person
I changed his perspective on something when he was sure he was right. Both stubborn ngl- I can compromise a lot more though
Anyways I am the delusional old lady who will bake you cookies while still thinking my mom is still alive.
Edit: The last two commenters take the fun out of every room they walk into. Give them your condolences
I'm an INTJ and not INTP but i can relate to finding someone ditzy and not liking them at first, but later realizing that there was a lot more to them than I initially pegged them.
In general, learning more about people and getting my curiousity stated is one of my favorite experiences. I don't find a lot of interesting, compelling people in general though.
@@cultreader9751 INTJ & INTP are similar when it comes to not liking dumb people from what I have noticed.
But yeah surface level people can be uninteresting. Nothing to discover, but I think there is beauty in their simplicity. Get exactly what was advertised. It's comfortable.
Except to my boyfriend, he says they're boring & doesn't see how I can find that interesting. Then I say it's the most trustworthy option, they're not any different on the inside than they are on the outside.
That was really heartbreaking to the point where I almost cried for you😢
Thanks for sharing your story 🥹🥹❤️❤️
why would you date someone who calls people dumb to their faces just because of their appearance? and you call it compliment? huh? wdym you´re infp?
INFP here and you got it exactly right! In some life seasons I feel like a little kid. I am the fun aunt that jumps on the trampoline with my niece and nephews and plays all the games with them. I love looking at Christmas lights and I get so excited by stupid little silly things. But at the same time, when life is really hard I feel ancient. I feel like I've gone through so much in my life and I feel things so deeply that it's utterly exhausting and I feel as though I am much older than I am.
You did the only thing you could do by putting us in both categories. This is what it's like to be an INFP. We are a living paradox.
As someone who switches between INFP and INFJ, I approve of this message.
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I felt every emotion like I was that sheet of paper during the entire video. The loneliness and the inability to tell if I felt older or younger. It's hard being an INFP. Being a wise, childish old man is the best place.
Before watching the video, I was pondering how old I feel as an INFP with a chronological age of 25. On one hand, I feel like a child; I can get extremely happy or upset about little things, and I believe I still haven't grown up. On the other hand, I'm more mature than my peers, as if I've reached the end of my life; I keep contemplating the ultimate purpose of life. In short, I found myself torn between two extremes. After watching the video, I couldn't believe it; my eyes welled up with tears. I'm astonished by how well you understand this - you explained the INFP personality perfectly. Thank you. ❤🎉
INFP is so on point.
Thank you, Frank.
"Life is not a straight line, but an endless cycle." 😢Thank you.
I'm INFP and that's the best descirption of INFP I ever seen in my life :3
Even since I was a little child, I didn't act like one. I kinda never "fit my age", I always befriended those, who were younger or older than me. I was too mature and too childish to my classmates at the same time. It's a bit upsetting,but I could switch between kid and adult/elder in a second and because of that I could learn from them a lot of things. It's kinda win-win for me but I needed to grow up to accept this xd
I think our emotional intelligence, wild imagination, empathy and sensitivity help us to "live more than once", and help us to deal with people expericenced by life. At the same time this child-like curiosity, idealism, innocence and avoiding conflicts make us look immature.
I never thought I could feel so accurately described and understood by a paper being cut. What a moment!
this sounds weird but thank you for breaking us in half lmao. I feel much more at peace knowing that there is no need to classify us and we can simply be two things at once.
I am honestly surprised by the categorization of my personality type (INFP). The "being ancient (or old?) and childish at the same time" bit is so accurate. There is one time that I attented a funeral and I approached someone who is still emotional and I asked the typical asking assurance questions i.e. "Are you alright?" related-type of questions. Then we started a conversation contemplating the "whys of life" and the "uncertainties" of human existence and "death". Then out of nowhere, I said within the lines of: "Death is an act of deliverance into the being that we were once meant to be. We may never get to see them through our eyes, feel them with our hands, and such but their footprint that they left within this land will always remain within the confines of our minds and hearts". And they were shocked asking how do I know these stuff and I just replied: Idk tbh... eh idk now lol
Yeah we can grasp and comprehend the idea of how we came to understand these things but these sort of things are abstract and dont like logic, reason, and order, hence why its hard to explain, i think the trick to understanding things is understanding that logic and reason cant fully explain abstract ideas, so you need to let go of thinking that it has to make sense, or proceed linearly, life is not linear, plus logic and reason will never be able to explain where creation itself came from, but it exists so there has to be a why to the existance of existance, or the reality that things exist, cause there cant be a cause to cause an effect without something causing the cause, that caused the effect.
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I just dont get what Is it that you were trying to say, maybe becuase I dont really speak english but it may Also not be
I'm an INFP as well and I just love how I'm able to understand the complex nature of existance and dig really deeply into my feelings breaking them down so I could understand the exact thing that caused that feeling and realize how to simplify my analasys in order to explain how I'm feeling or my thoughts on something eternal. However, when somebody asks me why I do this or any other thing I do I'm like It's just fun.
@@savanger953YOU just said it...I recently got to know my personality type...for a very long time thought there might hardly be anyone who can relate with me, Thought myself as a stupid and also wise and mature simultaneously for thinking about this trivial existential stuff, it's a really mixed up feeling can't be put into words life seemed so ugly and beautiful at the same time,but now I can see there are many people like me, at first I used hate my personality type thinking why can't I be normal like other people even if others think I am blending with them I know myself that "I can't open up"the fear of judgement and branding myself as an outcast...now I am growing to love me as myself, this kind of filling that I can feel is exclusive to myself it's shinning bright and I am loving every bit of it,hope I can meet an INFP like myself in person someday, I used to think I have seen it all in this small 19 year of my life,now I know there is much more to come, much more things to see grow and fall,much more hardship I would feel,many times I would cry and laugh and I am grateful for it all, I am glad I get to live in this human body of flesh and blood. THANKS EVERYONE JUST FOR EXISTING, HAVE A GREAT DAY person on the internet.
oh my god the INFP one is so accurate, as a kid I was constantly told that I'm wise for my age and as an adult I feel like a kid in an adult body 😂 But I feel like I retain both sides and use them when it's neccessary ☺
I'm an INFP and I just love how I'm able to understand the complex nature of existance and dig really deeply into my feelings breaking them down so I could understand the exact thing that caused that feeling and realize how to simplify my analasys in order to explain how I'm feeling or my thoughts on something eternal. However, when somebody asks me why I do this or any other thing I do I'm like It's just fun.
As an ENFP who is now in his late 60s, I have noticed that I am more balanced and have become a lot more balanced in my outlook and actions. Life has beaten the crap, er, smoothed off the rough edges, er, taught me that there is no one way to be. I started off life as an old soul due to tragedy and abuse, got out of the situation, became the child I never got to be, got smooshed by life because of it, became more introverted but no less reflective, and still like people. I suspect that this happens a lot to people as they age no matter their Myers-Briggs personality. I enjoy being alone but when I am around people I like, which is almost everyone, they can't get me to shut up. Hence, my comments on YouBoob for people who don't really care. 😁
im an ENFP at his 20's, idk why but reading this was so heartwarming. Maybe because I recognized some relatable experience and track of thoughts
Spot on for the infp part! And I love how people only see the naive baby part at first, which is quite evident when you look at me and it looks like I am having the time of my life playing with a ladybug, and then, they start asking questions, and get to know my experience in life, and they realize I have litteraly lived many many lives already and there is an old bear with a sword hiding inside. Something I find amusing in that 😅
Totally relate, although I tend to watch bees more than ladybugs. There's something magical and somber about watching all the different species of bees interacting in my flower bed while also contemplating their march toward extinction due to humanity's impact on the environment.
I can't believe what you did with the INFP! First, you isolated it, and then you split it between the Ancient and the ultimate Baby. Man, this is SO true! I feel like an old soul who understands and has experienced the greatest of loves and the deepest of griefs but still with this childlike wonder and even naivety. I'm so dreamy but can also be such a bleak realist. Thank you for being the first to accurately describe the unique INFP.
As an ISFP, I totally agree with you on that one. I don't have ADHD, but my personality type mimics it quite well. It's very hard to concentrate on what I'm doing because I'm always thinking about what I'll be doing next. My optimal output usually comes from having two or more projects going simultaneously and jumping back and forth between them.
Me too !!! Doing several tasks at the same time always works best for me..
@Idellphany Yeah, it's pretty cool when you know it, and you can use it to your advantage. 😎
Oh that makes a lot more sense on why I struggle with attention spans now...
@Moon_Savior Same here. I'm 45, and it's been such a mystery my whole life. It was always, "Not quite ADD and not quite ADHD..." It was very elusive and very frustrating.
People keep telling me I need to see a psychiatrist I might have a couple things, but I think a lot of it is my personality and other things could be something. 😅I don't know It's in my to do list.
As an INFP , Our emotions changes depending on the situation
We can be a little baby but also a mature person at the same time
As an INFP I agree, I’m usually like the most childish person you’ll ever meet but if you really talk with me you’ll learn that I have the most deepest thoughts you’ve ever heard of
As an 18 year old INTP I did indeed experience my first mid life crisis already.
source: my therapist.
She literally told me I blurted out every thought and emotion of 40 year old patients she’s had.
How ironic.
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You'll get younger 👍😁 believe me , at least the way i feel pain got younger after 23_24 for me ,
INFP here, so many times in life i feel like I'm stuck watching my friends and family make mistakes that seem so obvious (dating manipulative people, thinking their actions wont have consequences, blaming others for their own issues, etc.). I feel like I have that lifetime of wisdom and experience to know better than to do what they are. Yet at the same time I still have that hope/idealism that lets me see the world for what it should/could be and strive to work towards that kind of life for myself and those around me. Your placement for us couldn't be any more fitting, Wise beyond our years, but "held back" (depending on your perspective) by a childlike Idealism. Able to view the world both for what it is AND for what it could be.
Yes! It takes wisdom to see what could be. I hate that being “naive” and “idealistic” is considered a bad thing :/
@@unionunicorn6776well personally I would still say that being naive is a bad thing. Choosing to live life in denial or clinging to a fantasy is unhealthy both for the naive individual and those around them. But a lot of people confuse idealism for naivety when the two are completely different. Idealism is seeing the difference between what is and what could be and choosing to work hard so that reality can edge closer to the ideal, where as In My personal experience naivety often means seeing the world through a lens of idealism and insisting that it is reality. Those who are naive are unable to see that difference. Choosing instead to believe that they have already achieved the ideal and need not try any further.
INFP here chiming in. A guy friend once told me years ago that I am “a dichotomy…simultaneously an 80-year-old wise sage and a 5-year-old little girl.” I had never heard someone up to that point estimate me so succinctly.
I'm an ISFJ and this is so relatable. I'm currently in my twenties but my ENTJ sister who's younger than I am says I act like an old lady. 😂😂😭😭
My younger brother is an INFJ (he's in his twenties as well) and even I think his reasoning is really mature for his age.
Wow, I’m an INFP and you’re so right that we’re both really young and really old at the same time. That basically sums me up. For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt like I’m really a little old lady trapped in a younger body. At the same time, I admittedly have a naive and childlike view of the world sometimes.
I feel so special as an INFP after this 🥰 and you summed up our age perfectly, hehe thank you Frank! 🧚♀️
INTJ - do we really care how old you think we are? no....that would involve a relationship.
Duuuude. This was brilliant! I expected it to be funny and quirky like your normal videos, which it was, but wow! I'm an INFJ, but that stuff about the INFP brought me to tears. In a good way. NICE work!
I am both INTJ and INTP from the latest tests this year. At first, I'd say I am old (like an 80 yr old granny) but the older I am, the more I learn how much I don't know. Apart from my look, people really can't tell how old I am. I think it could be my forever curiosity and the futuristic mind. Interesting, for the teen. Yet I don't mind. I'm growing every day, anyways...
I can't wait to learn about everyone! Sincerely, A Very Sincere ENFJ
thanks!
Several things I learned while watching this:
1. Editor Kevin is my favorite human being (this is subject to change). I have laughed really hard at the wild, blink-or-you'll-miss-it jokes he threw in there while watching this. He has infinitely made this channel so much better.
2. Interesting that Frank tied the ENFP and ENTJ with each other. IMHO, ENFPs do tend to be more emotionally mature than ENTJs but ENTJs are pretty analytical and more go-getter than ENFPs. For example, ENTJs tend to be the bossy ones in the group, but ENFPs do tend to not listen and do their own thing since ENTJs do tend to overreact to certain things. ENTJs over time will respect ENFP's boundaries and sense of wonder and will let them do things the way they do them.
3. Funny how Frank ranks INFJs pretty high on this scale (no bias at all lol), but I would argue that INTJs belong up there with the INFJs. INFJs have a very emotional core which they hide very well. INTJs may know how to temper their emotions better, but they might have a hard time addressing how they feel. Though INFJs are more open, INTJs are hardened. I'm on the fence whether INFJs are older than INTJs, but I think INTJs do have a wisdom beyond their years which should not be disregarded.
4. Glad Frank redeemed himself after unnecessarily bashing the INFPs in the last ranking video. However, I think more thought should be given in regard to the youthfulness of the INFP. They do appear to be paradoxical since they have a youthful sense of wonder, but also a taste for the ancient and finer things in life. I would put them lower than the INTJs for that, but still pretty high.
This is the rant of an ENFP who obviously is pretty biased. I do not know many Sensors so I cannot speak as to their ranking. Take what I say with a grain of salt!
As an INFP, I have spent my entire life being called both an Old Soul and a baby (because I'm too sensitive).
So yeah, I'd say you got it spot on.
same 💯
As an INFP, what's daunting about your videos is, besides your transparent level of intuition and intelligence, the fact that you are visibly not an INFP, but you give INFPs a special attention in so many of the videos, and it's an attention made of an ideal mix of sympathy and humour, ... and I have never seen someone understand INFPs, while not being an INFP, as you can.
Like with the "pain box" in the INFP brain video. How can a non-INFP know about that?!
The same goes here with this video, where you intuited (and I have no idea how you could) that we are the oldest, but also young, for ever.
As an INFP I was wondering where you would put us. Because on one hand, I often run around like a toddler being amazed by so many little things, but then again people told me I am an "old soul". So what you did just feels very appropriate!
As an ISTP, I usually act younger than my age (probably because I get told that I look younger than my age). But I feel like my mental age is older than a lot of others. I have a very disciplined and serious side when I'm in the focused mode (which I think others see me as a little scary because of it). So, this feels accurate.
Relatable. People tend to think I'm younger than I am too. I'm pretty sure it's because of my height even though when they explain it they say it's because of how my face looks. They can't fool me...
ISTP's can seem intimidating to others because they usually have things all thought out. That's why we are in the old category when it comes to process. But, I agree with others saying I seem younger than my age. There's something in or spirits that drive us to play hard.
I used to look much younger than my age, but now I just look like an old hag! And feel it. Even as a teenager, I felt old, old, old, and yet I also feel like I can't grow up. The biggest problem I find is that very few people can relate to me on any level, and it doesn't help that I generally lack effective communication skills. I used to absorb new information like a sponge and always analyzed every tidbit of information. The end result is almost like an overloaded computer, trying to correlate all the data. Cause and effect going in endless circles. I have taken the M-B a few times, and the result each time was (I was told) unusually strong. Am I alone in this?
@@DeborahHamilton-q1w A lot of the things you said aren't hard for me to understand and relate to to be honest.
im an istp but idrc i act like a child and i will never be old
As an INTJ, I have never identified with teenagers with the exception of being ready and willing to critically think through others' plans (i.e. criticize). As a child, teenager, and young adult, I've been more ready to identify with seniors (my grandparents, church members) than most groups, but I have also been far more adept at technology than them. It makes more sense for INTJs to be placed at middle-aged or at a crotchety old soul who is ready and willing to tell people how things should be.
💯I've never known an INTJ that was truly "young at heart." To classify INTJ as teenagers based on them being future focused is irrational. Teenagers are mostly focused on their peers and living in the moment. There is very little strategic planning and outcome-based thinking. I think he was just trying to put some surprises in the vid (and generate comments).
I think INTJs do have inherently have a certain level of curiosity that can only be described as childlike; which is probably why we can get obsessed with things...the rest of the time 💯 we are like old people... the INTJ juxtaposition
@@crwlh6721 Exactly. I'm a 13-year-old INTP and I definitely don't see other teens as strategic or future-focused. I honestly just think they're irresponsible, which makes it hard for me to make friends.
@@Nome_the_Furry My thought process when reading your comment: "Hey I relate to thi- what in the name of Mark Zuckerberg is that username."
@@tenebris13 Lol.
As an INTJ I can confirm that our age is a young adoult. I've noticed that I and other INTJ have that hope within them, but not a childish hope, a romantic hope, belive that we can make word better, love for future and ambition. Basically every positive aspect of young adoult mindset. We can see hope where other adoults give up.
I love that in the ranking video’s us INFPs are genuinely seen in both the comedic and literal sense of what we are (not who, what.)
As a INFP I can relate to that. I get along with much older people and they say that I'm quite far for my age (I'm 24) because of how I see the world and the amount responsity I take. But I'm also able to enjoy the little things in life. I am very happy when I have flowers in my living room or when I have sun sided eggs on toast for breakfast it makes my day. But the one thing that makes me the most happy is making other people happy
Fun facts no one care about:
- I'm an ISFJ
- I'm from Italy
- I love cooking
- I love lasagna
- I love traditions
- I love eating together with both family and friends
........... Oh, and i love your video too ❤
Italians are awesome. I have Italian friends from 20 years ago.
I care! ^_^
@@CloudyWolf713i bet you are an enfp
awsome
@@lilian.cordero I’m an ISFP myself!
As a 48 year old INTJ I confirm Ive always been about 17.
As an INFP, I’ve had a growing suspicion that we were really meant to be the people in the village who can’t really participate in society so we are cloistered and made to be part of the clergy or religious sect and who people go to hit up (like a piñata) when they need a whack of some of that abstract and somewhat vague philosophy that they then can take however they want to make it useful to their lives. This video just added more fuel to the flame of that idea.
I love that idea. I’ve sometimes thought of myself as an anchorite.
My mother is an ESTJ and you are so right about the no thing. She would tell me a week ahead of time that I could go to some event with my friends and then two days before come to my room and say “you know I just changed my mind, no you can’t go”.
I would cry and freak out because I had been nothing but good and when I would ask her why she would just say “because I’m the mom”. I could swear that she just loved to say the word no so much, she couldn’t go an entire week without saying it but people thought I was crazy! Thank you for pointing out that they are pros at saying NO for no reason than to just say no lol
INFP here! Showed this to my husband and he nodded so hard!
Wow your son is already 9 months old!!
IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!💞💞💞💕💕❤️❤️
I can't figure out whether I'm flattered or offended that the INFJ is so ancient 😂 (INFJ here)
Also, I completely agree with you on the INFP. I don't think I've ever met a INFP but from all the research I've done, they seem young and old and almost eternal.
Infp here 😂
I’ve always felt like I don’t fit into the boxes that people cut out for😊
Love you Frank you cracked me up 😅😂😅😅😂
As an INFP, i LOVE how well he represented us. Matched very well to me.
Thank you for not putting infp as a child! I’ve always struggled with people treating me like a child and acting like I’m less mature just because I seem ‘innocent’
Boom. You’ve captured society perfectly. Everyone out there trying to do their best on a line and the INFP floating all over the place knowing things are ever-connected and cyclical.
THIIIIIS 🙌. It just blows my mind that so manny people don't understand that everything and everyone is connected. That's why we suffer with so much emotions because we are able to feel simply by imagening
As an ENFJ, I think your discription was pretty spot on. 😁 As a kid people use to tell me I acted like a little adult, but as I became an adult now over 35 people think I'm younger than I actually am and have commented on how youthful I seem. LOL It's funny and strange, but also cool in my opinion.
As an ENTP I tested at 12 grade level in 5th grade on standardized tests. I never really fit in with people my age but got along great with little kids who just liked to have fun and use their imagination and older people who knew so many cool secrets! I’m now in my 40’s and I haven’t slowed down. I still beat the teenagers at basketball and dodgeball especially now that I know a lot of tricks they don’t. I seem to get along with patients of all ages and I love the stories and perspectives of my oldest patients and the fun and energy of the little kids. I feel like I’m always trying to convince my colleagues to loosen up though lol!
Pretty sure ENTPs are the type given the most one dimensional caricature by this channel
@@SigFigNewton I think if you simply describe an ENTP personality as “argumentative” you are missing the whole point. At least for me this is true.
@@SigFigNewton which type are you by the way?
I’m weirdly far along the spectrums too. Not even close to being E or S or F or J.
As far as I can tell I haven’t been trying for a specific type when I retake the test. I think I really have pronounced weaknesses that I should work on
@@SigFigNewton my 14 year old son is INTP. Pretty amazing young man!
As an INFP, my favorite quote for all the time is "There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it" by Romain Rolland.
Gosh, the infp categorization has me in stitches!😂
Great work as always, Frank!
YES!! ENTJ's are so goal-oriented that we absolutely jump in to help, just to get it done! This is me in my classroom every day with my students. I mean, yes, I'm their teacher, so I'm supposed to help, but I'm talking about my students who are seniors and doing projects that they have multiple days to complete: they'll sit around and not start, and so I throw myself into their group, give them an idea, show them how to start implementing it, and once they've got the idea, I will continually check back to make sure it's working out. Sounds like you've really been learning a lot from your own ENTJ, Frank! 🙂 (And yes, I got the "noh"!)
As an INFP, this was a compliment
Same here 😅
When I first did the test in high school I (probably appropriately) arrived at INTJ, with a strong T. Around a decade later, I am now INTP, with a very weak T. It seems that the INFP is calling out to me, slowly pulling me in. As you would so eloquently put it, it's as if I've glimpsed the secrets of the universe and have yet to fully process what I saw.
i had basically this entire arc in the span of, like, three years
As an INFJ, I consider myself to be kind of an infant because I love shiny objects and snacks, but I think it may make sense for me to be ancient, because I don't like risk of any kind, and I love nurturing people's souls with treats and listening to them talk about their problems.
Same