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Faster: The Acceleration Of Just About Everything

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“Life as Type A” is the second chapter of James Gleick’s novel, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything. The main focus of his novel is time. Gleick mostly talks about the lack of time in society as it progresses. In the second chapter, he shifts his gear to discuss about people whose personalities are classified as Type A. Gleick first visits the history of Type A, as introduced by the cardiologists, Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman. He explains about the studies that these scientists did regarding different types of characteristics and how they group together. Gleick describes Type A as “a triumph for a notion with no particular scientific validity.” Some traits that Type A personalities have are hurried thinking and actions. This
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