Type A personality

Type A personality
• A Type A personality is “aggressively involved in a chronic, incessant struggle
to achieve more and more in less and less time, and, if required to do so,against the opposing efforts of other things or other persons.’’
• They are always moving, walking, and eating rapidly, are impatient with the rate
at which most events take place, are doing do two or more things at once and cannot
cope with leisure time.
• They are obsessed with numbers, measuring their success in terms of how many
or how much of everything they acquire.
• Type A’s operates under moderate to high levels of stress.
• They subject themselves to continuous time pressure, are fast workers,
quantity over quality, work long hours, and are also rarely creative.
• Their behavior is easier to predict than that of Type Bs.