The ISFP personality type is one of the 16 types identified using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Every individual belongs to one of the types, based on their unique ways of thinking and viewing the world.
The ISFP is considered to be the artistic, adventurous, and easy-going personality type. People who are of the ISFP personality type tend to be more free-spirited and open than the others.
7 Traits of ISFP Personality
1. A Warm Presence
People who are the ISFP personality type often have a sense of warmth about them. They are cheerful and the people around them pick up on this. They are calming to be around and put both their loved ones and strangers at ease.
ISPF people are deeply empathetic. This allows them to connect to and understand the feelings of everyone they cross paths with. They are natural nurturers, often providing a shoulder to cry on for friends and family. Their non-judgemental attitude encourages others to confide in them and feel accepted.
The emotional intelligence that an ISFP person has lends itself to a successful career in an industry that requires caregiving. Many ISFP people make excellent teachers, health care workers, social workers, and vets.
2. Introversion
People of the ISFP personality type make great friends. They are usually charming and excellent company.
Their friendly, approachable nature makes ISFP people appear extroverted at times, but in reality, they fit into the small group of people who do enjoy socialising but are still introverted. While they can still have fun and feel confident around other people, their energy requires alone time to be replenished.
Instead of using their alone time to dwell on insecurities, mistakes, the past, or the future, ISFP people live in the moment. Their downtime is used to reflect on themselves as they are in the present.
3. An Adventurous Spirit
The ISFP personality type is also known as “The Adventurer”. People of this type are usually drawn to excitement and spontaneity, in particular. They often feel the need to escape from boring day to day activities. This usually means rarely staying in the same place for very long. Their need to do something on the wild side drives a lot of their choices.
Activities like long spontaneous road trips appeal to the ISFP personality type. Last-minute adventures satisfy their need to be on the move and seeking excitement, while always taking in new experiences. Some people of the ISFP type choose adrenaline-fuelled sports to get their adventure fix too.
4. Don’t Think about the Future
While some of us dwell on thoughts of the future, the ISFP personality type couldn’t be further from that. People of the ISFP type live in the moment and actively choose not to think much about what’s in front of them. They are of the mindset that the future can’t be controlled much, so why ruin the present by overthinking what’s to come?
Instead of planning and dwelling on future possibilities, ISFP people choose to focus on what they can do now to better themselves. They pay attention to what they can do to improve their lives at present, and if that benefits their future, even better.
5. Creativity
Those of the ISFP personality type are likely to be more creative than their peers. Often, this personality lends itself to a career that involves creative pursuits. Artists, musicians, designers, and chefs often fall into the ISFP category, including many talented celebrities.
The creativity of an ISFP person isn’t limited to “artistic” pursuits either. They thrive in all sorts of hands-on, practical work that involves any kind of down-to-earth activity. This might include outdoor work like gardening or forestry or building work such as carpentry.
6. Needs More Than Just “A Job”
Due to the ISFP’s free-spirited nature, most “normal” jobs won’t satisfy them. They don’t enjoy rigid routines. They require a flexible lifestyle to feel happy. Their freedom is essential.
Most ISFP people find themselves self-employed or working a job that doesn’t require them to be present in an office from 9-5. If their job doesn’t allow them as much flexibility as they need, they’ll likely feel starved of time to enjoy their creative pursuits and hobbies.
Whatever work they do, flexible or not, must be emotionally fulfilling. They’re very unlikely to take on work just for the money if it doesn’t satisfy them fully. They need to know that whatever they choose has some sense of purpose.
7. Always Changing
Typically, someone of the ISFP personality type is very open-minded. Of all the personality types, they are most likely to consider alternative perspectives to their own. They enjoy learning about different cultures and experiences of the world and are happy to use them to reinvent themselves.
They tend to enjoy experimenting with their own sense of the world. This might involve travelling a lot to gather new perspectives, integrating themselves with new communities. They may also regularly change their own appearance, testing out new ways to be themselves.
At its core, the ISFP personality type is a category for people who are free spirits with a go with the flow attitude. They are open-minded and accepting of everyone and have an innate ability to care and nurture.
While they might be exciting and out-going in social situations, they are also deeply introverted. Their contrary personality makes them harm to pin-down. They like to spend time with their loved ones and can be intense and adventurous, but at the end of the day, they’ll need to decompress.
This personality type makes an excellent friend, travel buddy, and life partner.
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Thank you for this analysis of personalities. It was nice to see science in action, and I found the personality profiles very astute, not only describing myself, but the various types of empathy described in the article not so much, in the traditional sense this used, but the varying degrees or rational or emotional involvement was very telling. As a person who works in intelligence and has blood on my hands and still in the fight, I found myself too moral for any of the systems offered, until I grew with a group that believes many of the same things. I have dealt with many people who have no empathy, as far as I could tell. Many get off on others pain, like tRump’s appointee to head the CIA, THOUGH HE WAS WARNED TORTURE WAS HER SEXUAL KINK, which other CIA operatives blamed for the excesses of Abu Garb. TORTURES in Cuba. Thank you again for giving your hard work.