Agreed. A polite way of saying she's an a**h***?



Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
No - not at all. We have some friends who are ultra marathoners and
one of my kids is a tri-athelete. Their whole perspective on what's
important changes while training and racing.


I'd agree that some people manage to be focussed, self-directed, and
intensely competitive without quite being full-fledged a**h***s, but
most of the times such priorities as curtesy, social ritual, attention
to the wants & needs of others, etc etc fade away... and guess what you
have left...

Of course, this kind of person is also a super-achiever... as Ellen M
certainly is. This is the kind of person you want to have if the goal is
getting things done. I think this is the origin of the term "Type-A
personality."

The problem is that a lot of people have all the negative
characteristics and few of the positive, and are not even plus-scale
achievers.

DSK