all right, who are you? i have my suspicions, so fess up.
i'll start.
herm - i try hard to empathize with others, with varying degrees of success.
From Wikipedia:
Symptoms of Type A Behavior[2]
1. An intrinsic insecurity or insufficient level of self-esteem, which is considered to be the root cause of the syndrome. This is believed to be covert and therefore less observable.
2. Time urgency and impatience, which causes irritation and exasperation.
3. Free floating hostility, which can be triggered by even minor incidents.
I hit on all three so I guess I'm a Type A.
I am the exact opposite, so I guess that makes me B..
but B comes second, which means it can't be as good as A. I got to figure out how to be an A and now, this new news infuriates me! [bang] [bang]
ahh not really...
Universal indifference is a wonderful thing.
Unless I am in traffic,then I am a type A TO THE MAX!!!
We just went over these personalities in a management class I'm in and damn if I don't fit every single part of the Type A. Oh well I guess that just means I get things done faster.
i used to be type b
i think i'm a now.
mainly because of the free floating hostility thing
I'm an "M" type carbon based lifeform
I have no personality.
Take the test.
http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/type_a_personality_access.html (http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/type_a_personality_access.html)
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You seem to be far from having a Type A personality. Your attitude to life is more of the "smell the roses" kind. You know how and when to relax. The hostile, aggressive and competitive part of you surfaces rarely. You are easy to be around, and people tend to feel relaxed and comfortable in your presence. It's a very healthy attitude towards life. Just make sure you don't miss important opportunities because of being too cool and relaxed. Picking up a challenge and competing a little bit for your place in the sun can add some spice to your life.
edit: FWIW i scored a 17. And I'm okay with that.
Quote from: SKOM on August 19, 2008, 08:16:04 AM
http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/type_a_personality_access.html (http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/type_a_personality_access.html)
I scored a 47...right in the middle between A & B.
I think the driving questions pushed me towards A. I effin HATE stupid drivers!! [cheeky]
I scored a 26.
QuoteYou seem to be far from having a Type A personality. Your attitude to life is more of the "smell the roses" kind. You know how and when to relax. The hostile, aggressive and competitive part of you surfaces rarely. You are easy to be around, and people tend to feel relaxed and comfortable in your presence. It's a very healthy attitude towards life. Just make sure you don't miss important opportunities because of being too cool and relaxed. Picking up a challenge and competing a little bit for your place in the sun can add some spice to your life.
Like most of these tests, this is pretty general. I think I'm a type B but not quite as much as this thing says. The competitive part of me surfaces more than rarely.
We did something like this at work. Only it was birds. The eagles were the Type As. Owls, were the logical ones. Doves were the emotional ones. and Peacocks were the outgoing entertainer types.
On an X,Y graph I scored one point away from 0,0 toward Owl, dove. I'm pretty balanced.
I scored a 73.
Right about where I figured I'd be.
I got a 29.
Me? Not a chance. I don't even need to take the test 8)
However, my father, my ex-wife and older son are COMPLETELY Type A personalities.
It truly is astonishing that my 5 year old son can be a bossy prick. He wanted to wash a car with me a few weeks ago, and his pushy, bossy, demanding behavior actually was a killjoy for something I enjoy - car care!
At least I know he'll be successful at SOMETHING!!
Hmmm...I scored a 73. [roll] I'd hoped I was well on my way to becoming a Type B. Guess I'll have to back off some more!
I know that I am way, way less Type A than I was when I was younger. I probably could have scored about 150 ten years ago ;D . I was probably more "successful" then. Now I'm just plain all worn out. :P
Edit:
Heh heh. Sometimes getting old and forgetful is a good thing. I went back and did the test a second time. I couldn't remember what I answered the first time. I got a 61 on the second go around. I feel so much more balanced now. [roll] [roll] ;D
i'm type cast
I expected to be a 30-40 max but I got a 70. Very surprising to say the least. I think of myself as a pretty chill, laid back guy (as long as I'm not sitting in traffic). I am a serious workaholic though (to a fault) , and I always have to be the best at what I do. I guess I never really equated that to a type A personality.
Quote from: SKOM on August 19, 2008, 08:16:04 AM
Take the test.
http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/type_a_personality_access.html (http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/type_a_personality_access.html)
edit: FWIW i scored a 17. And I'm okay with that.
The site doesn't seem to work with Mozilla because it told me I'm pregnant.
Quote from: silentbob on August 19, 2008, 01:49:59 PM
The site doesn't seem to work with Mozilla because it told me I'm pregnant.
Ahh crap, Now I have to get a second job.
QuoteYou seem to be in the middle between the Type A and Type B personality. In this case, the middle ground is good. Your attitude to life is more of the "smell the roses" kind and you know how and when to relax. Nonetheless, you realize that picking up a challenge and competing a little bit for your place in the sun can add some spice to your life. The equilibrium is important, so don't let your hostile, aggressive, and competitive alter ego take over too often. Generally, you are easy to be around, and people tend to feel relaxed and comfortable in your presence. Yours is a very healthy attitude towards life.
i got a 44.
i figured i would be closer to the type a side, but that's cool. i'll just have to work harder at being a type a.
<---------- scored a high 70
i scored a 58
Results of Your Type A Personality Test
Personality Type Ruler
Your score = 55
What does your score mean?
You seem to be in the middle between the Type A and Type B personality. In this case, the middle ground is good. Your attitude to life is more of the "smell the roses" kind and you know how and when to relax. Nonetheless, you realize that picking up a challenge and competing a little bit for your place in the sun can add some spice to your life. The equilibrium is important, so don't let your hostile, aggressive, and competitive alter ego take over too often. Generally, you are easy to be around, and people tend to feel relaxed and comfortable in your presence. Yours is a very healthy attitude towards life.
Quote from: MendoDave on August 19, 2008, 06:08:02 PM
You seem to be in the middle between the Type A and Type B personality. In this case, the middle ground is good. Your attitude to life is more of the "smell the roses" kind and you know how and when to relax. Nonetheless, you realize that picking up a challenge and competing a little bit for your place in the sun can add some spice to your life. The equilibrium is important, so don't let your hostile, aggressive, and competitive alter ego take over too often. Generally, you are easy to be around, and people tend to feel relaxed and comfortable in your presence. Yours is a very healthy attitude towards life.
that's what my score meant as well :)
94....
Not surprised at all.
44
blah! blah!! Just what they said for all the rest of us 'balanced' people!!!
You seem to be in the middle between the Type A and Type B personality. In this case, the middle ground is good. Your attitude to life is more of the "smell the roses" kind and you know how and when to relax. Nonetheless, you realize that picking up a challenge and competing a little bit for your place in the sun can add some spice to your life. The equilibrium is important, so don't let your hostile, aggressive, and competitive alter ego take over too often. Generally, you are easy to be around, and people tend to feel relaxed and comfortable in your presence. Yours is a very healthy attitude towards life.
I laugh a lot!! Not always easy, but I'm learning to do better!!!
Results are skewed cause of so few questions - but more questions and the type a's would have never had the patience to answer all the questions [laugh]
type A's already know the answers
[clap] [clap] [clap]
Quote from: herm on August 19, 2008, 06:50:28 PM
type A's already know make up the answers
all fixed. ;D
I'm still pissed I didn't get 100!
;D
what!!! couldn't see through the questions to 'fake it'???
you could have gotten a 100 if you truly wanted one...
Yeah, he didn't try hard enough. [cheeky]
score=67
You seem to be in the middle between the Type A and Type B personality. In this case, the middle ground is good. Your attitude to life is more of the "smell the roses" kind and you know how and when to relax. Nonetheless, you realize that picking up a challenge and competing a little bit for your place in the sun can add some spice to your life. The equilibrium is important, so don't let your hostile, aggressive, and competitive alter ego take over too often. Generally, you are easy to be around, and people tend to feel relaxed and comfortable in your presence. Yours is a very healthy attitude towards life.
pretty much got it!
i call BS.....
you're a type Z.
its so obvious.
32
[coffee]
Quote from: Ash on August 19, 2008, 12:45:18 PM
i'm type cast
funny, the link didn't take me to the hot asian chick test... ;D
47 on the type A thing, though... and I'm rather certain I am a beta-male, so it makes sense...
Quote from: teddy037.2 on August 20, 2008, 03:47:23 AM
funny, the link didn't take me to the hot asian chick test... ;D
47 on the type A thing, though... and I'm rather certain I am a beta-male, so it makes sense...
[laugh]
i'm sorry but that really made me laugh.... [cheeky]
Quote from: teddy037.2 on August 20, 2008, 03:47:23 AM
funny, the link didn't take me to the hot asian chick test... ;D
47 on the type A thing, though... and I'm rather certain I am a beta-male, so it makes sense...
so you submit to domination on a regular basis?
you're the bottom?
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
I see noone's ever read chistopher moore here...
wait. I assumed you folk knew how to read things other than teh interwebz :-*
his analogy is something like this:
when the alpha-males run off to bring down the wooly mammoth, the beta-male stays back and comforts the women, ensuring his genes will pass to the next generation when not all the alphas return.
it's the 'nice guy' thing.
hahaha. yup...in the living room with the loud guys yelling at the football game on the television, or in the kitchen with the drunk women learning what they like....
very good, grasshopper.
Quote from: Statler on August 20, 2008, 09:14:27 AM
hahaha. yup...in the living room with the loud guys yelling at the football game on the television, or in the kitchen with the drunk women learning what they like....
very good, grasshopper.
;D
only, it still hasn't paid off yet... [roll] :-\ [drink]
the smart alpha sends all the other sub-alpha's in the pack off to hunt, and the beta's out to gather.
and he stays home and comforts the women....
I'm a 44, which received the same "middle ground" "balanced" response as others have posted. :)
While I try to remain balanced overall, what happens is that I sometimes swing from Type A to Type B.
Type A: when in traffic. Gawd people, drive decisively! Do you not know where you want to go?!? Get there already!
Type B: at work, when someone sets a rediculous schedule that none of the experienced engineers believes can be met. My attitude at that point is: it gets done when it gets done.
Otherwise I try to maintain a balanced life overview. I have a "plan" for where I'd like to go. Dunno how long it'll take me to get there, dunno what unplanned things God may have in store along the way, but until He directs otherwise, I have a direction to move in, and that's where I'm going. [thumbsup]
Oh, and I don't think those who ranked in the middle necessarily qualify as beta-males. I am very much an alpha, thought at first glace the laid-back approach may seem "beta". The last GF thought she was dealing with a beta... some surprise when it finally dawned on her that in matters of worldview and leadership I am a strong-willed alpha, I just try not to be a prick about it.
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I used to be pretty strongly type A - a perfectionist who got really stressed out by any wrinkles. Eventually I learned to accept a little mediocrity in my life in order to appreciate the living. So here I am in a doctoral program (high achievers) but I'm the slacker of the bunch cause I don't work evenings or weekends unless it's absolutely necessary. Means the degree takes me a little longer but I get to have hobbies and social life while I'm here. I think there are way too many incompetent people around me and bad drivers make me nuts, but it's an amused kind of amazement at the level of stupidity rather than something that raises my blood pressure.
Quote from: BibleBoy on August 20, 2008, 12:20:39 PM
Oh, and I don't think those who ranked in the middle necessarily qualify as beta-males. I am very much an alpha, thought at first glace the laid-back approach may seem "beta". The last GF thought she was dealing with a beta... some surprise when it finally dwaned on her that in matters of worldview and leadership I am a strong-willed alpha, I just try not to be a prick about it.
I agree. I am the same way.
Except, if someone insist on leading, I'll let them. Until they F' it up. Then its time for me to take the raigns(sp?) fix their shit storm and get things back on track. I don't have to lead, until, I have to.
The type B helps there, when the shit hits the fan its the cool head that gets it solved.
Quote from: teddy037.2 on August 20, 2008, 03:47:23 AM
funny, the link didn't take me to the hot asian chick test... ;D
47 on the type A thing, though... and I'm rather certain I am a beta-male, so it makes sense...
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Quote from: herm on August 19, 2008, 09:45:12 PM
i call BS.....
you're a type Z.
its so obvious.
[cheeky]
/seriously..is there a type-Z?
I sent the test to my wife who I sure was an A++++++++ personality. Very uptight, perfectionist, yada yada yada. I am as B- as I thought possible, laid back, let shit roll off, dont sweat the little stuff.
We both got the same score, I kid you not. 55
64...... roses and shit....... :-*
70 here,
been known as a type A, but been trying hard to mellow out. Might just be easier for everyone else to change though ;)
Quote from: fwtcc on August 20, 2008, 01:34:58 PM
I agree. I am the same way.
Except, if someone insist on leading, I'll let them. Until they F' it up. Then its time for me to take the raigns(sp?) fix their shit storm and get things back on track. I don't have to lead, until, I have to.
The type B helps there, when the shit hits the fan its the cool head that gets it solved.
Yep.
During a college project, I let the anal-retentive type-A take the lead... when he effed it up, I stepped in (since I was the #2 guy on the team, and a couple of the other team members had been my roommates and trusted my judgement).
I had no idea why I didn't just lead right from the get-go (one of the former roomies asked me why I didn't take it when we were picking the team lead... that should've been my clue). Then I took a Myers-Briggs test, and came up as an INTJ, or "The Mastermind". Turns out that's exactly what the Mastermind does... he/she lets those chomping at the bit take the lead... until they demonstrate incompetence.
i got 50. i could go on and on.
[clap] my computer took a dump after i posted that one [laugh] seriously