I do need to achieve. I'm just used to other people not seeing it. I want to be the last man standing.
Yes, agreed. I am not concerned as to whether others "see" my achievements or not.
It's more important to me that I get paid for them, regardless of how they are valued by others. Seriously, money talks and bullshit wlaks.
I'm not really sure who this was aimed at, but a quote from the info page on Apollo, the first thing that is said.
"Apollo, Greek god of the Sun, was the original overachiever."
Now achievement cannot be pinpointed to a MBTI type, but I think Apollo represents the same type of striving for the best that ENTPs embody.
"Though very proud of his son’s courage and prowess, Zeus was not pleased that Apollo had killed the serpent. Where could he go now when he needed advice based on her remarkable foresight?
“Not a problemâ€, Apollo assured him, and returned to Delphi where he took over the Temple and persuaded the priestess to teach him the art of prophecy."
I can also see him as ENTJ.
My remark was named at no one.
My Mother's middle name is Apollonia, as is my daughter's, after my mother.
When I was a boy my Mother chastised me for referring to her as a "Saint," as she said Saints are boring and she was hardly considered as such.
If the defintion of an overachiever is someone who follows their heart and forges their reality to their liking as best they can, then that is fine with me.
Again, I'm not in this for other people's perceptions, but when they do comapre my standards to theirs, often I am labeled as an overachiever, and I maintain that is just the way I do things, and a relative comaprison to thier means of accomplishing the same endeavor. There is no guilt/shame/or superiority in such events, merely a comparison between alternatives, the victor of which is decided by he/she who has the authority to judge.
