INFP-T Path To Entrepreneurship I wish someone had told me in my 20s!
Summary
TLDRIn this insightful video, Director Delbridge, a career consultant and occupational psychologist, addresses the unique career challenges faced by INFP and INFPT personality types. She shares five key challenges, including the pursuit of internal perfection and the tendency to be hard on oneself, and offers three solutions: working for oneself to align with natural creativity rhythms, building self-awareness to embrace one's exploratory nature, and finding a supportive community of like-minded individuals. The video is a call to action for introverts and highly sensitive people to redefine success on their terms and find career fulfillment.
Takeaways
- 🌟 INFPs and INFP-Ts may take a lifetime to find career satisfaction due to their unique personality traits.
- 🔍 Director Delbridge, a career consultant and occupational psychologist, offers advice for introverts and highly sensitive people to achieve career freedom.
- 🎯 The video focuses on redefining success for highly sensitive and introverted individuals, particularly INFP-Ts.
- 🚫 INFP-Ts often struggle with internalized perfectionism, which can lead to stress and a lack of acknowledgment of their personal growth.
- 💡 It's crucial for INFP-Ts to acknowledge their personal development and not be too hard on themselves.
- 🛌 Perfectionism can lead to sleepless nights over tasks that were well done but not up to their personal standards.
- ⚖️ INFP-Ts should be cautious not to pour from an empty cup, meaning they often prioritize building others up over themselves.
- 🗣️ Watch out for self-negative talk, as INFP-Ts may view themselves as lazy when they actually need time to relax and recover.
- 💼 The best job for an INFP-T is often working for themselves, allowing for self-paced and self-directed work that aligns with their natural creativity flow.
- 💡 Building self-awareness can help INFP-Ts understand their job-hopping tendencies and the importance of finding the right work conditions.
- 🤝 Finding and connecting with like-minded individuals can provide a support network and boost self-esteem for INFP-Ts.
Q & A
What are the challenges an INFP might face in their career journey?
-An INFP might face challenges such as striving for internally motivated perfection, not acknowledging personal development, perfectionism affecting sleep and well-being, pouring from an empty cup by boosting others more than oneself, and engaging in self-negative talk.
How does the speaker suggest INFPs can handle their perfectionism?
-The speaker suggests acknowledging a job well done even if it wasn't done to the perfection standard one prefers.
What is the significance of self-awareness for an INFP in their career?
-Self-awareness helps an INFP understand their natural tendency to explore, learn new things, and take on new projects, and it eases anxiety about job hopping or changing interests.
Why does the speaker recommend INFPs to work for themselves?
-Working for oneself allows INFPs to work at their own pace, follow their natural flow of creativity, and balance work and rest according to their needs.
What practical steps does the speaker suggest for INFPs while working for others?
-The speaker suggests gaining as much work experience as possible, learning about finances and living on irregular income, and building an emergency fund.
How can INFPs build self-awareness according to the speaker?
-INFPs can build self-awareness by understanding their disposition as explorers, recognizing their need for flexibility and growth, and not worrying too much about the type of job but the conditions that support their natural work rhythm.
What is the importance of finding one's 'people' for an INFP?
-Finding one's 'people' provides a supportive environment where INFPs can be understood and not feel the need to constantly fit in or be understood by those who do not share their disposition.
What does the speaker mean by 'pouring from an empty cup' in the context of INFPs?
-The speaker refers to the tendency of INFPs to give more to others in terms of support and encouragement at the expense of their own self-care and self-esteem.
How does the speaker define 'self-negative talk' for INFPs?
-'Self-negative talk' is when INFPs hold unreasonable ideals and standards for themselves, viewing themselves as lazy or unproductive when they actually need time to relax and recover.
What advice does the speaker give to INFPs regarding their career satisfaction?
-The speaker advises INFPs to work for themselves, build self-awareness, find their people, and focus on being rather than doing, to achieve career satisfaction.
Outlines
🌟 Career Insights for INFPs and Personal Growth
Director Delbridge, a career consultant and occupational psychologist, addresses INFPs and particularly INFPTs, sharing insights to help them find career satisfaction and fulfillment. The speaker wishes to impart three crucial pieces of advice that could have benefited their early career, aiming to inject positivity into the viewers' professional lives. The video continues a series on redefining success for highly sensitive and introverted individuals, with a focus on the challenges faced by INFPs. The speaker identifies five key challenges: the pursuit of internal perfection, the unrecognized growth from this drive, the struggle with perfectionism, the tendency to pour from an empty cup by uplifting others at the expense of self-care, and the issue of self-negative talk. The speaker suggests solutions such as working for oneself to align with one's natural creativity flow, building self-awareness to understand the natural exploratory nature of INFPs, and finding a community of like-minded individuals for support and understanding.
🔍 Embracing the INFP Workstyle and Finding Your Tribe
The second paragraph delves into practical advice for INFPs, emphasizing the importance of working for oneself to maintain a self-paced and self-directed work style that aligns with one's natural rhythm of creativity and rest. The speaker encourages gaining diverse work experiences while working for others as a stepping stone to self-employment, learning about finances and managing irregular income. Building self-awareness is highlighted as a way to alleviate the anxiety associated with job-hopping and to embrace the exploratory nature of INFPs. The speaker also stresses the importance of finding a supportive community, or 'finding your people,' to counter the feelings of isolation that can arise from not fitting into conventional work environments. The video concludes with an invitation for viewers to share their own career advice for their younger selves and to engage with recommended videos for further career insights.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡INFP
💡Career Satisfaction
💡Internally Motivated Perfection
💡Personal Development
💡Perfectionism
💡Self-Paced Work
💡Self-Awareness
💡Job Hopping
💡Self-Talk
💡Finding Your People
Highlights
INFPs may spend a lifetime seeking career satisfaction.
The video aims to share insights to help INFPs, especially INFPTs, find career fulfillment.
The presenter, Director Delbridge, is a career consultant and occupational psychologist.
The focus is on redefining success for highly sensitive and introverted individuals.
INFPTs face unique struggles due to their personality type.
Five challenges INFPTs often face in their careers are outlined.
INFPTs are always striving for internally motivated perfection.
They may not acknowledge their personal development due to high self-expectations.
Perfectionism can lead to dwelling on things not done to personal standards.
INFPTs may pour from an empty cup, focusing more on building others than themselves.
Self-negative talk can be a challenge due to unrealistic ideals and standards.
Three solutions are proposed to help INFPTs in their career journey.
Working for oneself is suggested as the best job for INFPTs due to the need for self-paced work.
Building self-awareness can ease anxiety about job hopping and the desire for new experiences.
Finding and connecting with like-minded individuals can provide support and understanding.
The importance of focusing on being rather than doing is emphasized.
Transcripts
it can take an infp a lifetime to find
the career satisfaction and fulfillment
and maybe even longer if you are an
infpt infpt Worse Enemy are the
incorrect assumptions we seem to hold in
our minds today I want to share with you
three things I wish somebody had told me
earlier in my career and I'm sharing
them so you can start implementing them
in your life today to inject some
positivity and satisfaction in your own
career
thank you
if you're new here welcome I'm director
delbridge a career consultant and
occupational psychologist I equip
introverts and highly sensitive people
with functionalities that help reduce
work in life overwhelm so they can
experience true career Freedom so if
that's something that will benefit you
make sure you subscribe so you don't
miss out on any new videos I post in the
future So today we're continuing our
theme of redefining success for highly
sensitive people in introvert people we
started talking about this topic in a
few videos that I will link up here so
you can go ahead and take a look at that
and the focus today specifically for
infp turbulent people I'm a turbulent
type and I know a few of you specified
in the video that I posted are you a
NFPA or an infpt many of you came in and
said you are infpt and the struggles you
are having having that disposition so I
think it would be a really good idea to
kind of share some tips the things that
I wish I had known earlier on in my own
career that I believe would have really
helped me experience the life a little
bit different I don't know if the
challenges would not have been there I
do believe the challenges are there to
build us up but I believe that way I
would have handed it or not resisted
what was the case in my personality
disposition or learned to work with it a
little bit different would have been a
huge help so I'm sharing them with you
today and hope that you find them
helpful too so as we go through this
make sure you comment in the comment
section below any challenges that you
yourself are facing is an infpt in your
career Journey so if I was talking to my
20 year old self I would have prepared
her and told her that I would face five
challenges that I'm going to share with
you right now so the first thing I would
have said would have been you are always
going to be striving for internally
motivated Perfection so know that stress
and motivation will not leave you
because of this it will just be part of
your life the second thing which is
actually a flip side and a positive to
the first point is that because of that
internal really motivated drive you are
always going to be growing in your
personal development the downfall is you
will not be acknowledging it so make
sure you acknowledge that development
make sure you acknowledge that the
downfall is that you tend to be very
hard on yourself and you're not going to
acknowledge it so acknowledge the fact
that that internally motivated Drive can
be a positive thing in driving you to
develop better as a person the third
thing I would say to her is
perfectionism is a beast so you're going
to live sleep over things that you have
done well if they didn't meet that
internal personal standard so this could
look like a job well done at work a
project that finished on time finished
well but because it wasn't executed at
the level that you wanted to execute it
at you're going to lose sleep over this
so be weary of that and acknowledge a
job well done even if it wasn't done to
the Perfection and standard that you
would have preferred it to be the fourth
challenge I would have said to her is be
careful not to be pouring from an empty
cup chances are you're going to be
building other people up more than you
build yourself you're more likely to
boost other people's self-esteem before
you boost your own even sometimes at the
expense of your own so be mindful of
that and the fifth challenge I would
have prepared her for is to say watch
out for that self negative talk because
you will hold unreasonable idealism and
standard in life and you're a hard
worker but you don't acknowledge this
you actually view yourself as lazy
sometimes just because you need time to
relax and recover and rest but that's
not an accurate picture of what's going
on so build a skill to accurately assess
how you're actually doing in your life
that would have been the fifth challenge
out of preparator let me know in the
comment section below if any of that
resonates with you if that's something
you would have wished you'd have known
in your 20s and if you're in your 20s if
this is actually poinsettia you actually
struggle with so in response to the
struggles I would have given her three
solutions that will actually really help
her in her career I would have told my
20 year old self that's the best job
that she will ever do is work for
herself and that's because you need to
work self-paced self-directed work you
need to be able to go with a natural
flow of your creativity so the times
that you're most creative create the
times that you need to rest you need to
rest so you have inspiration execution
rest inspiration execution execution
inspiration execution rest inspiration
execution rest you get the point that is
very hard to implement and to follow if
you are not in a workplace or have the
autonomy to be able to do that because
it could be that the workplace that you
work at has projects and has timelines
that don't go with your natural clock
and you are your most productive and
creative when you can follow that
natural flow of things and build
yourself up to learn what that looks
like and support it best so go ahead and
have as much work experience as you can
working for other people understanding
that that's just a stepping stone not to
be trying to fit in or figure out why
you don't fit in or why things don't
work for you pull out of all those
experiences everything that you would
need to equip you to work for yourself
so do all the things you can do take as
much work experience as you can learn
about finances and living on irregular
income and savings so that when the dry
seasons come when you're self-employed
you have a nest egg that can keep you
going an emergency fund and things like
that I would have told her do the
Practical things during those years that
you're working for somebody else to
build and prepare for when you can shift
and work for yourself the second
solution would have been build yourself
awareness so this would have eased her
anxiety of why she was job hopping
because my 20 year old self did not last
in many places for too long she would
start she'll be excited she will burn
out and decide that job didn't work for
her she needed to move on do something
else she questioned her rest and quiet
times to mean perhaps those interests
she was pursuing were no longer
interesting to her she couldn't
understand how other people went into
one work and stayed in for years when
she just lost interest and wanted to
pursue and explore other things so she
was very hard on herself so I would have
encouraged her to to build her
self-awareness to know this was natural
for her to be an explorer to want to
learn new things to take on new projects
to develop and just keep growing that
she doesn't stay stagnant and even if
she's in one Organization for a long
time it is natural for her to want to
shift and take on different projects I
would have encouraged her not to worry
so much about what the type of job that
she was going for but rather the
conditions that she had to pay attention
to because I remember she really enjoyed
working certain places because of the
people she worked with or because of the
way the job was written in that gave her
flexibility for example to know when she
can book cases and when she didn't have
to bookcases so she could balance her
work and home life a little bit better
that those were the most important
things and it didn't really matter so
much the type of job so long as she was
actually pursuing her passion in any
industry she would have done well and as
far as her colleagues were concerned of
people around her is to just understand
that it's not because they didn't want
to support her they just didn't
understand how to support her they
cannot relate to her disposition they
cannot understand why certain things
overwhelm her why she needed as much
break why she just could only book two
clients in a day it wasn't because they
didn't want to support her they didn't
know how so I would have encouraged her
to just be patient that it was enough
that she understood herself and asked
for what she needed it didn't matter if
other people didn't understand her so
long as they could accept and give her
space and room to be herself that was
more important than trying to make sure
that she was understood the third
solution I would have told her after she
had found who she was and she built the
self-awareness is find your people find
and connect your people so that you
don't walk around in life trying to fit
in or trying to be understood with
people that don't get you which carries
on the second solution really is to find
people who are more like you so that you
can have that experience mirrored back
that can build your confidence and that
you're not doubting yourself all the
time when you pick on things that are
nobody else around you understand and
having one or two people that really
fully can relate to your experience can
really boost your self-esteem and
assurance that no you're not going crazy
and know it's perfectly fine what you're
experiencing is just not as rare or not
as experienced with everybody else
around you so I'm curious if you are to
speak to your younger self what career
advice would you have told him or her
let me know what those are in the
comment section below make sure you
check out the recommended videos to help
you gain more career insights if you
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like and share with others so they too
can benefit from it as we always say on
this channel focus on being than doing
and until next time
may you have a rested life
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