You Don't Have to be "Type A" to Achieve

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The biggest problem I have with all of this "ambition" and "productive" and "achievement" talk is that I want to be really specific that I do not think that these should be an important part of every person's life. I have friends who are very ambitious and friends who are not ambitious at all and those are both very good ways to be.
I don't know what makes people different from each other, but they definitely are! But I'm stuck being me, and I'm very glad I had the advantages necessary to be able to be me .

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@Chris_winthers

This feels like i just walked into season 12 of a show i've never heard of

@daometh

its kind of sweet that if you ask any of the green brother who's more successful between the 2 of them they'll say eachother's name without any hesitation

@samuelmelcher333

I really see Hank as a model of what a successful life living with ADHD can be, not merely success in spite of one's ADHD

@chillsahoy2640

The moment you started with "A group of cardiologists got together and decided to classify people based on their behaviours and achievements" and my first thought was "So people who are not experts in psychology, are trying to classify people using a psychological basis...and we already get dubious results when actual psychologists do this? Yeah this is not going to be a scientifically legitimate form of classification."

@Michael_Biggs_

Isn't it weird how cardiologists decided the best personality type was the one that allowed someone to be a cardiologist.

@Maximilianus101

I clicked on a hankschannel video with the full knowledge and understanding that I was, in fact, watching a hankschannel video and not a vlogbrothers video, and yet I still found myself surprised when Hank didn't conclude with "John, I'll see you on Tuesday."

@darthbek

This is extremely empowering. I am NOT competitive, and I don't want to be. I don't want the world to be run by aggressors. I'm a god damned pacifist hippie witch and just want people to be more at peace... and this has inspired me that maybe I can succeed. I don't NEED to be cutthroat to be successful.

@erininabox

This is literally the most ADHD thing Hank has ever said. Being motivated by stress, by fun, by novelty, the hyperfocus, just the whole vibe. 😂 Welcome to the club Hank.

@cutelittledevil88

Thank you for the title, "ofcourse you are Taipei" is what the Cc says 😂

@hoppareiter

As it happens, I just talked today about how I can never remember what "Type A" and "Type B" are supposed to be. The therapist in me feels like he needs to know because they're concepts that people use but the psychologist in me refuses to because THEY'RE A BOGUS PERSONALITY THEORY INVENTED BY CARDIOLOGISTS.

@angrycharizard

I am proud to represent the group of people who is both stressed out AND not accomplishing much!

@chadwildclay

I've always made an effort to NOT be Type A. However, it does seem like the more I achieve, the more other people perceive me to be Type A.

@javi7636

I'm firmly of the opinion that, unless your goal is world domination, anything you can do competitively can be done

@Turn.Colors

No one has ever said the word "cardiologists" with that much skepticism and I for one am living for it.

@Byeuji

12 minutes of Hank describing to me literally how my mind works. It's hard to articulate in a world that expects packaged productivity in measurable units, where sometimes I move mountains in minutes, and sometimes I can't get out of bed. I feel so seen, and so appreciative that I'm not the only one. I needed this.

@MaxFung

My takeaways from this discussion:

@doyoureadme94

This was the chit-chat we needed today. I’ve never felt so limited by an idea. When I think I have a few really good ideas on how I could benefit my local community. And it takes a little confidence to try and reach out to people about those ideas. And sometimes confidence comes from deciding an idea that limits you is bogus.

@CatherineLu

The level of shock I feel upon reaching the sponsored part of this video is boundless. So unexpected 😮

@BeeAKerman

So I have always considered myself a low achieving Type A... But listening to Hank, I relate - I suddenly have realised that I have achieved so much - just not in the traditional Type A sense of the word 🤗

@centromeda

the way you describe guilt as a motivator to prove that you "deserve" things is something i experience as a traumatized person often. i don't know if you have a history of trauma, and it isn't my business, but it is nice to see myself in what you're talking about. i feel the same way about personality tests; they determine what you DO but not WHY you do it.