According to Drive, the definition of Type A personality came out of a health study. You were supposed to avoid acting like a Type A to avoid heart attack, hyper tension and other stress-related diseases. In other words, you were supposed to strive to be a Type B simply as a matter of health, to live longer.
Nowadays, any pejorative meaning associated with being Type A seems to have disappeared. If anything, it's swung the other way. Type A's can brush off their behavior with a laugh, "I'm such a Type A, ha ha." Some schools and businesses brag about how they only hire Type As: hard-charging, never-sleeping, never-satisfied people. These qualities sometimes pass as requirements for leadership.
Meanwhile, you never hear anyone bragging about being Type B. It'd most likely be taken as self-deprecation.
Is there a better sign of how things have changed in modern life?
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