Do you have a type A or B personality ?

horseless carriage said:
My old car is perfect for you. It was known as an MG Y-Type. To see my car you need to scroll down to the 22nd row, 2nd car on the left.
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Thanks...not a car person though...if it starts/runs/stops (when I want it to) it's a great vehicle......otherwise it's a POS. :LOL:

(Guy I worked for in Toronto in the 1960s, (I had an old Pontiac as big as a bus), leased one of those, new at the time, 4-door T-Birds......said I could drive it while he was away for a couple weeks......trying to merge in it on rush hour intersections was a nightmare....guess everyone figured I didn't want it scratched. When I got back to driving the Pontiac everyone let me in, they didn't want their vehicles scratched/dented.)
 
I'm probably type a, with a little b thrown in.

The a because I'm a results kinda person. The most satisfying part of my job now (and the ones I've had in the past) is getting the job done and standing back to admire it.

The b because I'm flexible. When necessary I can change horses in the middle of the stream.

And then there's the ADHD me...oooo! look! shiny! and I'm off to do that "one" other thing...
 
Some truth in the type A versus B pop psychology narrative, however we humans are much more complex than to be simplistically categorized that crudely. If one web searches for personality charts, one will see many more categories created by more serious psychologists that actually have sophisticated tests to evaluate so. Even then, we are a spectrum of mixes of specific categories.

Unlike some thought decades ago, what we become is not rigidly based on genetics but rather due to neural plasticity, what we do and experience in life that then wires our brain, enhancing what it likes and repeats, degenerating what it doesn't like and ignores. The more a person acts, behaves, thinks, chooses, experiences in specific ways, the more such becomes who they are. Many impatient, impulsive persons became what they became due to their own choices, especially earlier in life before becoming adults. This is why given enough time and attitude adjustments, most of us are potentially able to change.

Some Type A's expose that tendency and lack of self awareness that makes them look foolish. When out driving in public, they may needlessly exhibit impatient emotional nonsense like aggressively tailgating a car in front of them on 2 lane highways in heavy traffic where everyone is stuck in position without a chance of any passing. Without consciously deciding so, in their sub-consciousness, they want everyone to know they are impatient so will sulk annoying innocent others just like immature kids.

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