Type-A

Some alphas have so-called Type-A personalities, a combination of aggression, impatience and anger first linked to a higher risk of heart disease in the 1960s.

Are Alpha Males Healthy? Melinda Beck 2011

Wilson and his successors talk a lot about transitioning people from "mediocrity to greatness," and freely admits that he likes to recruit highly competitive "Type-A" personalities to staff and run his stores.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Murder at Lululemon: Yoga's "Heart of Darkness"? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

Wilson and his successors talk a lot about transitioning people from "mediocrity to greatness," and freely admits that he likes to recruit highly competitive "Type-A" personalities to staff and run his stores.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Murder at Lululemon: Yoga's "Heart of Darkness"? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

"I don't have to be a Type-A napper," I told myself, facing the reality that to nap every day for a year was too much.

Karen Brody: Are You There, Sleep? It's Me, A Mom On The Edge Karen Brody 2011

Wilson and his successors talk a lot about transitioning people from "mediocrity to greatness," and freely admits that he likes to recruit highly competitive "Type-A" personalities to staff and run his stores.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Murder at Lululemon: Yoga's "Heart of Darkness"? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

Wilson and his successors talk a lot about transitioning people from "mediocrity to greatness," and freely admits that he likes to recruit highly competitive "Type-A" personalities to staff and run his stores.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Murder at Lululemon: Yoga's "Heart of Darkness"? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

If you are training for the Masochist Type-A Self-Improvement Divorcee Challenge, in which you must run a ultra-marathon, do a 200-mile donkey ride, and carry a flaming pile of logs and middle-aged ennui to the top of a mountain, that's fine.

You Cannot Be That Serious About Sports Jason Gay 2011

Wilson and his successors talk a lot about transitioning people from "mediocrity to greatness," and freely admits that he likes to recruit highly competitive "Type-A" personalities to staff and run his stores.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Murder at Lululemon: Yoga's "Heart of Darkness"? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

Wilson and his successors talk a lot about transitioning people from "mediocrity to greatness," and freely admits that he likes to recruit highly competitive "Type-A" personalities to staff and run his stores.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Murder at Lululemon: Yoga's "Heart of Darkness"? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

Wilson and his successors talk a lot about transitioning people from "mediocrity to greatness," and freely admits that he likes to recruit highly competitive "Type-A" personalities to staff and run his stores.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Murder at Lululemon: Yoga's "Heart of Darkness"? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011