>>... folks always tell me I'm a Type A personality. One of these days I need to bother finding out what the heck that means < smirk >
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>I believe the expression originated with the book "Type A Behavior & Your Heart", which was published in the early 80's. I don't remember all the details but the idea was that, in general, people tend to exhibit one of two types of behavior patterns, which the authors labelled Type A and Type B. If I remember correctly, type A people are those who are generally in a hurry, who tend to be impatient with other people and with situations over which they have no control, who are prone to anger (or are often suppressing anger), etc. Type B people tend to be more laid back, less hurried, etc. The point was that too much type A behavior was bad for your health, specifically your heart.
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>As I recall, an interesting side note was that type A people don't necessarily accomplish more in their lives than type B people, even though--at least on the surface--the type A's appear to be the ones who are driving themselves hard to succeed.
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>There was a second book a couple of years later titled "Treating Type A Behavior & Your Heart". A quick check on amazon.com shows that both of these titles are out of print now, though.