Sharing with you knowledge about Type A and Type B Personalities.
Personality type refers to the psychological classification of different types of people. The common types are Type A and Type B.
The theory describes a Type A individual as ambitious, aggressive, business-like, controlling, highly competitive, impatient, preoccupied with his or her status, time-conscious, and tightly wound. He wants to achieve a big goal but he thinks that time is very limited and as a result, he develops the following behavior:
- Exaggeraed sense of time urgency: The type A always races with time and has a severe sense of time urgency. They can hardly relax, push themselves with deadlines and hate both delays and ambivalence. If they sit without doing something useful they may end up feeling guilty.
- Competitiveness: The type A is a very competitive person and considers everything to be a challenge. He is challenging with high spirit at the circumstances that led to his insecurities and everything else that stands in his way.
- Multitasking: Type A people are often high-achieving "workaholics" who multi-task yet performing well at them all. These tasks are usually a huge list that they plan for themselves.
- The price for over achievement: Over achievement does not come for free. Type A people are subject to tremendous amount of stress. Their life styles are the main causes of the stress they suffer from.
The theory describes Type B individuals as perfect contrast to those with Type A personalities. Type B people are generally patient, relaxed, easy-going and at times lacking an overriding sense of urgency, hence less competitive and lower at risk.
Because of their characteristics, Type B individuals are often described as apathetic and disengaged with the following behavior:
- Relaxed by nature and has no sense of time urgency so tend to be a patient person. Have no problems relaxing or sitting without doing anything.
- May delay the work to the last moment and don't get stressed that easily.
- Less competitive and non-hostile.
- More genuinely easy-going.
2 comments:
Hi,
also i am a combination of both, but i adverse to one part of your case that you had wrote about type A, also i hope and im sure u r not like that :) and u wont have any stress on your life...it is abt 'the price for over achievement', i think for catch achievement many ppl try and they dont get any stress....i think maybe i got mistake your mean with word 'over'
Yes, when one achieves or performs more than he can handle, this may lead to Depression.
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