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Are you alpha, beta or alta/bepha?

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Originally posted by: yowolabi
Alpha. I'm soft spoken and haven't raised my voice in years. I never get angry and am in control of my emotions at all times. I realize that some of the traits seem more like Beta traits until the whole picture comes out. You can be alpha and subtle, it just takes more patience.

I have complete confidence in my abilities, and anyone who talks to me for any length realizes it. For example, I started a new job recently along with 3 other people who have the same position. They're all bright guys who I respect. However, by the end of the first week of training, they would ask me first when they had questions. Not just questions about information that was given to us, but procedural questions about what and how they should do something that was never explained, knowing I had the exact training that they did. I answer all of their questions with confidence, and they almost always took my advice. I can promise you that after i've been here a month, people who've been here far longer will be asking me questions. That type of thing happens everywhere in my life, and i'm used to both the expectations and the responsibility.

I seem to project some sort of aura that I know what i'm doing, probably because I always believe that's so, and can back it up when challenged. On the flip side, I've never felt the need to ask my peers for advice, anywhere. Maybe i'm arrogant, but i've never felt that anyone around was more competent than me. I think deeply about the best course of action, take it, and never look back.

Whenever i'm in a group, no matter how large, we end up operating on my schedule. Many times, the people around me don't know that I was the one that decided, and that's okay. I don't care about the credit, I simply want things to progress in my preferred way. I don't consciously manipulate people, though it may sound like that. It's just that after i've decided what I want I set about making it happen. If i'm in a group, they end up coming along for the ride. One way or another, people around me seem to end up conforming to my desires.
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Always came across at least one of these types of responses, years ago when I used to do management training work.

For many people, the Alpha/Beta behavior is very much situational.

As for me, I'm an outlier, neither fish nor foul. But I'm probably more a Beta.
 
Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
awww i wanted to be gamma so i can have all the carbon dissolved and be metastable upon quenching :heart:
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I don't understand this, but I think I just got a little nerdier.


 
i'd say i'm mostly beta considering i am usually nice and passive but there are times/situations where i can be an alpha.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
I deceive women into believing that I'm beta. Then the alpha takes over.
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god damn all the women must be retarded here on campus. well, "women" only describes age. Most of these girls are just that, I swear most of them carry the same damn high school attitude through senior year.
I hoped college was going to bring me chances with ladies who weren't so retarded. That was an epic letdown.
 
Beta. No doubt about it.

I don't want to be anyone's leader. I think macho posturing is one of the most ridiculous things anyone could waste their time doing. I'm confident only about things I've done before and succeeded at, and not terribly so even then (who knows what effect x new thing that wasn't present last time I did y activity could have this time?). I don't feel the need to make statements about myself with clothes, jewelry, hairstyles, cars, houses, lawns, banks accounts, power tools, televisions, four-wheel-drives, or any of the myriad other yardsticks people seem to measure themselves and each other by.

On the bright side, so long as people leave me alone I'll leave them alone. That last bit seems to be too much to ask for some folks.
 
I'm more Beta than Alpha. Basically, if an Alpha walks in and wants to take the lead, I usually let them and give them just enough rope to hang themselves. After that, I run the show.

Basically, I'll let someone else take the Alpha role if they're at least as good at something as I am, but won't bail out someone who puffs and is incompetent. I usually end up in the lead role even when I don't really want it. However, I don't abandon the responsibility or give it up once I'm there.

So is reluctant alpha a term?
 
Originally posted by: sjwaste
I'm more Beta than Alpha. Basically, if an Alpha walks in and wants to take the lead, I usually let them and give them just enough rope to hang themselves. After that, I run the show.

Basically, I'll let someone else take the Alpha role if they're at least as good at something as I am, but won't bail out someone who puffs and is incompetent. I usually end up in the lead role even when I don't really want it. However, I don't abandon the responsibility or give it up once I'm there.

So is reluctant alpha a term?
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That implies, though, that you have an ulterior motive for allowing someone else to take the lead. You are expecting that person to fail, so you can then take control. Is that what you are really saying?
 
Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: TallBill
I deceive women into believing that I'm beta. Then the alpha takes over.
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god damn all the women must be retarded here on campus. well, "women" only describes age. Most of these girls are just that, I swear most of them carry the same damn high school attitude through senior year.
I hoped college was going to bring me chances with ladies who weren't so retarded. That was an epic letdown.
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Yeah, women love an asshole.
 
To answer the original question: I am most certainly a Beta, and have been since kindergarden. I might even be a Gamma, I'm so low on the totem pole.
Had some serious anger management issues for a while, and people left me alone. Not quite the same thing as being an Alpha, but at least you dont get picked on.
 
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