Signs That You Have a Strong Type-A Personality

Don’t be fooled so easily

Dr. Psychology
4 min readJul 18, 2022
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Dedication, time-management, workaholics, & competitiveness. These are a few traits of a person with a Type-A personality. But don’t be fooled so easily. Although these traits seem to radiate a positive effect, it isn’t necessarily the truth.

Type-A personality isn’t a positive personality, although it has the traits that many people would die to have. Well, the catch in this personality type is, that they have competitiveness, impatience, workaholism & time awareness all in excess. In a nutshell, they can be easily perceived as rude by the next person, due to their intense behavior. However, a good thing about the Type-A personality is they can thrive well in a job atmosphere and are likely to witness a successful career.

Here are a few traits that characterize the Type-A personality.

Urgency & Impatience

Well, if this was the only trait required to qualify as a Type-A, then most of the writers on Medium would fall under this category. Only 10% of the writers in the $100 club? And the number doesn’t seem to go up, that explains a lot.

That’s mostly a result of unrealistic expectations. Including me. Most of us have this craving for quick results, and when the expected results do…

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