All joking aside I think there’s an inclination in this day and age for people to be far too introspective,
All joking aside I think there’s an inclination in this day and age for people to oversimplify everything based on what they read on the Internet.
Unless you’ve got some sort of neurologically atypical condition (eg, Autism) then all personality characteristics don’t generally fit into neat little black-or-white boxes despite what profiling companies might charge you large amounts of money to tell you.
Wasn’t the whole Type A thing born from a study to try and disassociate smoking and heart disease anyway? So it’s of questionable merit to start with. But even if we accept that there’s some value in it and that “Type A” people do tend to be more stressed than “type B” or whatever, it’s still a sliding scale; someone might be a lot Type A and someone else might only be a little Type A, yet someone else might exhibit different traits from both Types.
I’ve done the Myers Briggs test and, uh, another one? through work a number of years ago, and they basically go “are you a hard worker? Wow, then you must work hard. Do you like maths? Then you’re probably analytical.” The whole thing is akin to the Facebook “which Game of Thrones character are you?” quizzes that do the rounds with tedious regularity, and probably have about as much practical merit because you’re trying to classify something which is inordinately complex and subtle. But at least you come away with a pretty little graph, which is a bit more meaningful than “congratulations, your coin came up heads, you’re an aggressive stresshead and will be dead by 40 so you might as well buy some fags.”