Type B

The folklore says you’re curious, individualistic and cheerfully indifferent to how things are supposed to be done.

In depth

• Said to becreative, passionate, independent, and impossible to organise.
• At your bestthe one who ignores the received way and finds a better one.
• Said to struggle withfollow-through, and a reputation you didn’t ask for.
• Folk noteB gets the worst press of the four in Japan — “B-gata” is practically an accusation. Being disliked by a stereotype is not a personality flaw.

Prevalence: about 22% of people in Japan.