First born children generally show great leadership skills. In a group setting, it s usually a first born that will take charge and appoint themselves the leader or spokesperson. They will have been used to organising their siblings as a child, and find this leadership role easy and enjoyable to step into. They are co-operative, easy to work with, a team player, usually on time, organised, like challenges, and are willing to make sacrifices to be a success. They will leave no stone unturned to do a good job on whatever they set their mind to.
First borns are straight thinkers, usually good readers, and great at problem solving.
They set their mind to a task and can achieve a lot in a day, sometimes using lists to help organise themselves. On the down side, and every birth order has one, they can be such hard workers, or workaholics, that they put themselves under so much stress, and are often candidates for burnout, breakdowns and some neurotic disorders. Women especially may have trouble saying no to people and will take on all the worries in the world. Sometimes they may also run roughshod over other people s feelings at times in order to get a job done. They concentrate more on the facts than peoples feelings which can lead to conflicts.