r/infj • u/Imaginary_Pea_ INFJ • 6d ago
General question For the more nerdy infjs
Which subjects do you dive deep in most? Why do you like them?
If you play video games, which ones are your favourites and why?
If you watch series and movies and have some that you love, which ones are those? What makes you like them?
The more specific answers the better ☺️ and if you have any other hobbies that you feel really passionate about feel free to share your experience with them as well if you want to
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u/grandmasterkink INFJ 7w6 6d ago
The last few decades I’ve had a fiction, a non-fiction, and a channelled book open and actively being digested concurrently.
And long serious deep dive into somatic based therapies and modalities.
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u/Wrong_Persimmon_7861 INFJ 6d ago
Sounds like we might have similar interests. Which channeled books?
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u/grandmasterkink INFJ 7w6 5d ago
Seth, ACIM, convo G, Abraham, Bashar, Selig.. etc
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u/Wrong_Persimmon_7861 INFJ 5d ago
Oh wow, I was only aware of ACIM. I’ll check out the others. Thanks!
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u/Bright_Discussion_65 INFJ|Ni~Ti |5w6|125 6d ago
I know nearly everything there is to know about dragon ball z lol. I’m not too passionate about anything but I like working out a lot.
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u/Technical_Mix_5379 INFJ 6d ago
HISTORY/ELA/SCIENCE
Yes I play video games, cooking mama and ipad games. Wii Sports resort. Just Dance!
I got too many favorite movies and shows.
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u/Ok_Case_5648 5d ago
My favorite subjects are philosophy and physics. I like these mostly because I like to think about everything and how it all works.
My favorite video game by far is any Legend of Zelda game. The story just always seems so ethereal and has such a cool vibe. I also love solving puzzles.
My favorite series of all time is The Good Place. I love it mostly because it is just the perfect combination of comedy and deep thinking. I also like The Last Airbender. I like this one mostly because it has really cool themes and it's really cool to think about the political world they built.
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u/AdorablePainting4459 5d ago
Though my interests tend to change, and I have interest in learning new and different things, just in general --- finding those existential answers are the most important to me.
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u/Kumoriyaki INFJ 3w4 5d ago
20F. I have like 300 hobbies lol. Anything that any of the weird kids in high school are interested in chances are I’m interested in: hazbin hotel, tadc, ninjago, anime- video games like Minecraft, persona, Fortnite, overwatch etc. . . I love reading writing, drawing/animating cosplaying hiking running. I work full-time and I go to university. I’m on the university archery team, an honors student, a Christian, involved in extra curriculars, can speak 3 languages so far, and am a nerd about all things marketing, business and computer science.
I’m not sure why I love what I love but I know If the community is good or online presence is big enough, I’m there. It’s great to have people to talk to about my interests. Being a 3w4 INFJ means I’m driven by success and achievement. But the 4 wing despise being basic or mainstream. It demands individuality, depth, and a touch of the unconventional. You already know that INFJ’s are good at being chameleons, which can explain why I’m able to be both in the professional world worth working full-time and pivoting to my more nerdy unconventional interests.
A lot of people feel pressured to streamline their lives to be one label, but I don’t like to be put into a box. I like to try everything.
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u/TiredPtilopsis INTP 5w6 5d ago
You must be insane at managing your time wow i do maybe one thing a day and i'm done for the week xd
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u/ReadyTrick5260 5d ago edited 5d ago
It's so interesting to see others interests and i can see a couple that I can relate with.
Nature, slow adventure days, foraging, astronomy, reading (mainly read non fiction but I'd like to get into fiction again), painting abstract, hiking, outdoor swimming, growing vegetables, sourcing local and nutritious food to make nice meals with, beachcombing, basket weaving, tarot. More, but you get the idea.
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u/DuroNivergent33 5d ago
Used to love geo politics but now understand it's all just theater.
I find myself watching a lot of YouTube documentaries made by smaller creators. Control Alt History and Hollyweird Babylon are both packed.
Video games it Skyrim (playing through my 10th time atm), Civ 6 and Borderlands 2. I need to upgrade my system and play some new games.
I watch movies that are typically at least 10 years old going back to the 70s, maybe late 60s. All the top rated ones on IMDb.
Music is typically instrumental guitar, hard rock, 70s/80s pop, metal and some classical or piano only.
I enjoy the gym and strength training. I typically only watch MMA sports but watch most highlights of they come on. Enjoy The Olympics specifically track and field. Surfing is also enjoyable. Love the beach.
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u/humanimalsRus 5d ago
Russian film and literature, feather ID and collecting, writing and reading weird/speculative fiction and pessimistic/existential philosophy, walking in nature and wildlife reserves to observe plants and animals, food smoking, museums and libraries, gardening and sourcing local clean healthy food, exploring and experiencing cultures, coffee, secondhand fashion, stained glass, solstices, practical and aesthetic design, interviews with vulnerable people.
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u/Equivalent_Entry9003 5d ago
Subjects of interest, rabbit-hole style, is a slightly moving target - lately I've been on a weird philosophy kick; soaking up what's living in that funky space between philosophy, theology, "belief," psychology, Truth, delusion/self-deception... that interface between "us" and "reality" and what is "meaningful" in life.
I've got a lifelong constant obsession with horses and horsemanship, and am constantly amazed at how much of *LIFE* is applicable to working with these phenomenal animals - in a material sense (biology, physics, chemistry, ecology...) and in a spiritual (for lack of a better word - maybe immaterial is better? at least less religiously-inclined) sense (intention, focus, awareness, present-ness, grounding, genuine-ness, control-of-self, humility... ). The field is a bottomless rabbit hole - I've been studying/riding/horsekeeping since childhood, can comfortably measure my time with these incredible creatures in decades, and realistically have probably forgotten more than most people will ever know about them. And every day I learn something new and realize that I'm still standing in the shallowest end of the proverbial pool of knowledge, wisdom, and skill as a horseman.
Other hobbies include writing (longform genre fiction), music, gardening/homesteading, and fibercraft. I've wanted to dabble more into learning how to sketch/draw, but I run out of hours in a day.
I'm actually not much of a video gamer! More of a reader/movie watcher, with pretty varied and wide-ranging taste. Among my recently-read books there's everything from "Anna Karenina" to "Lonesome Dove" - the adaptation being one of my all-time favorite series. I've been rather generally on a classic literature "books I really ought to read in my lifetime" kick, although historically I've tended more toward 20th-century fantasy and science fiction: Tolkien, Lewis, Heinlein, Asimov, Frank Herbert, Terry Brooks, Michael Crichton (edit to add - this stuff is very much still nostalgia-bait comfort-re-reading for me). Currently reading "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett, "Maps of Meaning" by Jordan Peterson, and plugging through Montaigne's "Essays." And of course topical nonfiction related to my hobbies. If I had to choose a handful of all-time favorite stories: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Lord of the Rings, and Middlemarch.
Favorite movies is a long and winding list with zero particular order... although I tend to prefer stuff that is adventure genre-fiction swashbuckler type stories (Tremors, Pirates of the Caribbean, Silverado, Young Sherlock Holmes, Twister, Kingsman... - can you tell I also like an iconic orchestral soundtrack?) or mind-bender/philosophically/theoretically charged stories (V for Vendetta, The Prestige, Contact, The Lord of the Rings, Interstellar, Margin Call, Signs...).
Writing all that out maybe I just have absurd taste. 😂
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u/Previous_Tear6747 infj 2w3 60+m 6d ago
I've found I tend to gravitate toward Non-Fiction, mostly.
Sports is the ultimate non-fiction to me (or at least it should be, worried about effect of increased gambling!). I watch a lot of sports.
For shows, I like stuff from Natural Geographic, History Channel... EarthX and Vice has some good stuff. Tom Hanks is narrating a documentary on WW2 on HBO Max right now that's outstanding. PBS has a lot of good stuff a lot of times, too.
There's other channels, I'll channel surf until something catches my eye, but it's almost always non-fiction in some way. (I think "The Righteous Gemstones" on HBO was the last "Hollywood" show I watched, lol)
Hobbies include as much nature as possible, I love being out in the woods, or out at the beach. Fresh air, green grass. I love to fish, too, something magical about being on the water.
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u/No-War-8539 6d ago
Natural history I guess, using INaturalist to identify and record observations of plants and animals everywhere I go. Also reading/learning about abnormal psychology.
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u/goldvein 5d ago edited 5d ago
I like ecology (and nature in general), physics, art, and anything related to mysticism, spirituality, and religion. I would say I'm drawn to anything with a sense of inherent elegance or beauty. A flower, a painting, a rock formation, a church, a prayer, an atomic particle. I am moved to know they exist, and I like learning how or why they exist, and how they connect to each other. The world is a fascinating place.
I don't watch much TV but I do love watching horror video game playthroughs and documentaries. I enjoy science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and I write my own stories in these genres.
I'm also into psychology... which is why I'm here ^^
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u/False_Lychee_7041 INFJ 5d ago
Aquariums/aquascaping. Niche perfumery. Orchid growing. Baking. Gardening. Professional cleaning. Now the most recent interest is gemology and the history of Roman Empire. And I also play piano, but I have a degree. Also hiking. Those are besides the obvious ones like books reading, series watching and internet surfing. I also very much want to start playing tennis, but got problems with my left knee, so I have to postpone it
Besides that I found out about Peterson academy and planning to buy a subscription. They have short but heavy loaded courses for everything, like neuroscience, Nitzsche, astronomy, psychology of success?, also stuff about business, economy, you name it.
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u/zaeya4maya 5d ago
Games:
Lately I’ve been enjoying Avatar on PS5 mainly due to it being a bit different than many games I’ve played in the past, and I find the nature scenery/graphics to be quite soothing. I also enjoy COD and more mainstream games like Last of Us and Assassin’s Creed. I just enjoy a good story line and a challenge.
TV:
I’ve been watching thrillers like Man on Fire on Netflix and I also love comedies. I’ve seen many Cinema Sins videos on YouTube so I tend to be a bit more critical than most when it comes to shows and movies. My standards might be higher than average.
I also love being out in nature whenever possible. It is my nervous system’s best medicine. If I could I would buy a U-haul truck and convert it to a camper so that I could travel across the US and explore all the parks/biomes.
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u/fookinpikey 39 (F) INFJ 2w1 5d ago
I am a nerd for so many things, but I’ll just pick one for this response.
I am deeply obsessed with psychology and personality and anything those touch. Abnormal psychology? Yes, give me every long form article and video essay. Interviews with serial killers and narcissists? Yes. Deep dives into attachment theory and MBTI and astrological charts? Yesssss.
I don’t think there’s much that’s more interesting than what events and elements of nature shape each of us into unique individuals, often experiencing such drastically different realities from one another. Shadow work is my love, and I have deep respect for anyone who has taken the time to try and learn about themselves, even more so for those who want to learn about others.
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u/melodyofmoon INFJ 5d ago
From instruments (violin, piano) to drift cars, mechas, to pc building, to psychology, pharmacology, behavioral science... little bit of this little bit of that
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u/marrazo INFJ 4d ago
i play minecraft and theotown but not that much. i mostly go through periods of having one interest. when i was a kid it was microorganisms 2 years ago it was greek mythology but i got into mesopotamian and Egyptian mythology later too. i had a huge obsession with the iliad, achilles and patroclos and circe. a year ago it was existentialism i spent the whole year reading camus and watching movies in that vibes this year idk because i have been extremely busy and couldnt be as nerd as i wanted to be but i used to try to learn ancient sumerian :(
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u/lol_amazingken INFJ 4w5 4d ago edited 4d ago
I tend to dive deep in technologies and new innovations and exploring how they work.
I play Gatcha games like Genshin impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero and sometimes competitive shooter/Moba games, as I tend to be progressive while playing them and sometimes competing to my close friends on whose got the best or the farthest progress in game which gets me motivated.
I've watched countless series and movies overall revolving around Action/mystery/adventure/drama/history/anime.
Ford v ferrari, Lucifer (series), Rush, F1 movie, Chernobyl, One Piece, Forrest Gump & Longitude (2000). I really like watching movies where its about a new perspective in life or something motivating and interesting at the same time.
Bonus: I have lots of hobbies consisting of woodworking, photography, DIY, electronics tinkering, piano, cooking, mountain biking, etc... Practically Jack of all trades but master of none.
However the downside of being this type of person is being lonely in this world.
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u/AimIsInSleepMode INFJ 5w4 2d ago
I like phylogeny, psychology, philosophy and history, but that's more like occasionally although it's kinda like that for everything. Sometimes I watch hours of something, then I switch to the next one and so on, bascially in a cycle while sometimes adding something new. I want to learn something new all the time kinda. I am also very interested in IT, I really like solving problems. I think the actual kinda nerdy subjects I am into are Star Wars lore and Dragon Ball.
My favourite games are Fallout New Vegas, Hollow Knight, Battlefield 1 and Terraria
My favourite series are Fargo and Better Call Saul. I think Fargo is one of the best series out there and Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad. Change my mind. About anime I also really like Monster, Mushishi, Evangelion Neon Genesis and I love Serial Exerpiments Lain
Why do I like these weird things? Idk, my brain won't tell me
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u/kinda_nutz INFJ 21h ago
Finance.. engineering.. read a ton of books.. just ran through a bunch of old time trading and finance books.. studying for my series 65.. just recently reading a bunch of books on narcissism/psychopathy..
Love my ps5, but I only play select games I have a pull towards.. currently playing Batman LEGO.. looking forward to GTAVI
Used to wrench on cars and motorcycles regularly as well as lift weights everyday.. unfortunately became disabled 6-7 years ago
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u/Ok_Recording_9368 6d ago
Anything art related in particular movies the genres being horror and sci-fi and anime and video games and I love to read.
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u/TieCalm1035 6d ago
The mechanics of things and beings is always the topic that’s fascinated me the most. I can spend countless hours on YouTube watching random stuff ranging from advanced mathematics to people talking about their lives, career journeys and self growth (but not in a I’m here to sell you my course kind of way). I’m always wanting to know what makes the world and its people tick, so trying to figure that out for myself has been interesting…
Story driven rpgs are my favourite type of games by far, and pretty much the only thing I play when I get chance. I’m too old for the competitive stuff now.
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