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How
To Assess Super
Attainers
Main Ingredients for Making SuperAttainers
1. Early Starters
Super Attainers often start doing amazing things early in their life. This gives them a head-start in learning all of the difficult lessons required to achieve greatness. Wolfgang Mozart, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are a few of many examples. Sometimes they are pushed at a young age into a leadership position with fathers (examples are Alexander the Great, Ghengis Khan and Julius Caesar).
2. Nonconformists
It is safe to say that Super Attainers are not crowd followers. The making of momentous discoveries or promoting new ideas requires a personality that shows disdain for established authority and traditional opinions. Many great leaders led people who are culturally different from them in some important way. A few examples include: Adolf Hitler (Austrian Leading Germans), Joseph Stalin (Georgian leading Russians), Napoleon (Corsican Leading French).
3. Praise Be To Me
It is uncommon for Super Attainers to be humble about their abilities. They are supremely confident in themselves. They are often described as arrogant by others and are prone to disparage competitors. In advanced societies, many Super Attainers have come to recognize that being known as arrogant does not help their purpose and they do a good job of appearing modest. However, a bit of digging into their personality should uncover a deep feeling of self-significance.
4. Mentored & Motivated
Parents and other committed mentors often play a strong role in convincing Super Attainers in their childhood that they are extraordinary and developing their abilities. Some work with other great
Attainers and later carry on their work. They are often sent to the best schools and get the best tutors for extra training. Mothers can play a strong role if they are supremely confident in their son's natural abilities and pass on this belief in a manner that it is internalized. Mussolini`s mother is quoted as saying, `If he becomes a soldier, he will be a general. If he becomes a monk, he will be a pope`. Pope John Paul II`s mother told everyone who would listen that her new baby would `be a great man one day.` Extreme examples are 2 of history's greatest leaders, Alexander the Great and Jesus of Nazareth. In both instances, highly religious mothers were convinced their children were sons of supernatural beings.
5. Alone to the Top
Super Attainers are often described by others as dreamers, outsiders, cold-hearted and similar labels often given to loners. They are comfortable spending time in the company of themselves to ponder, study and develop. Many develop a love of solitary activities such as book-reading early in their life. They are not usually enthusiastic participants in team activities except when they are leader of the group, otherwise preferring individual activities. Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin and Erwin Rommel are a few examples of these people
6. Hard-Knocks Schooled
Super Attainers have often experienced traumatic times when their career or even their lives were in great peril. Childhood illnesses are one way that Super Attainers gain this feeling of vulnerability and resolve to overcome it. It is during these times that they gain an anxious feeling about their time in the world and comes to desperate realization that they must accomplish all they can when they have the chance because it can all come crashing down in the future.
7. Discontentment
Superior Attainers have an abnormally strong need for continuous accomplishment. Success does not bring them a sense of peace. They always see some other person who has more than then they do and scheme to overtake them. Super Attainers are impatient, dissatisfied and edgy when not engaged in activities that lead to the fulfillment of their goals. They seem psychologically unstable in this regard compared with others.
Two Types of SuperAttainers
I. Aristocratic SuperAttainers
Pampered and pompous, these people excelled despite having been given it all. They attended the best schools and hobnobbed with the best minds. Because they are so deeply bonded to a successful elite, they are able to keep grounded when great success disrupts people sense of normality. They are less likely to lead themselves and their followers down the paths of mutual destruction. On the down-side, they are conservative and elitist. Real change seldom happens with these people in charge.
Examples include: Winston Churchill, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great and Louis XIV.
II. Come-From-
Nothing
SuperAttainers
Rags to riches, these people pull themselves up through tremendous obstacles. Luck plays a role but most of their success is due to relentless force of character. Since they come from outside the establishment, they can be great agents of change. Unfortunately, they are prone to crash and burning when they inevitably overstretch themselves and their supporters. These people need to develop devoted relationships among powerful people who can keep them grounded.
Examples include: Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Ferdinand Marcos.
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SuperAttainer:
Albert Schweitzer
Humanitarian
Doctor & Missionary:
Albert
Schweitzer
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was an Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was
born in Kaisersberg in Alsace-Lorraine, a bilingual Romano-Germanic region
which France regained from Germany after World War I. Schweitzer
challenged both the secular view of historical Jesus current at his time
and the traditional Christian view, depicting a Jesus who expected the
imminent end of the world. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in 1953
for his philosophy of "reverence for life", expressed in many
ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer
Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa (then French
Equatorial Africa)
Basics:
Born: January
14, 1875 Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine
Died: September 4, 1965 (aged 90) Lambaréné, Gabon
Nationality: German
Religion: Lutheran
Fields: Politics, Military
Chronology
of Life Events:
January
14, 187
Birth
of Albert Scweitzer
1893
Studied
Philosophy and Theology at the Universities of Strassburg, Berlin and
Paris
1900
Pastor
of the Church of St. Nicolas in Strassburg
1901
Principal
of the Theological Seminary in Strassburg
1905–13
Studied
medicine and surgery
1912
Married
Helene Bresslau
1913
Physician
in Lambaréné, Africa
1915
Developed
his ethic Reverence for life
1917
Interned
in France
1918
Medical
assistant and assistant-pastor in Strassburg
1919
First
major speech about Reverence for life at the University of Uppsala, Sweden
1919
Birth
of daughter, Rhena
1924
Return
to Lambaréné as physician; frequent visits to Europe for speaking
engagements
1931
Autobiography
published "Aus Meinem Leben und Denken" ("Out Of My Life
and Thought")
1939
– 48
Lambaréné
1949
Visit
to the United States
1948–65
Lambaréné
and Europe.
1953
Nobel
Peace Prize for the year 1952
1957–58
Four
speeches against nuclear armament and tests
September
4, 1965
Death
of Albert
Early
Life:
He
was born into an Alsatian family which for generations had been devoted to
religion, music, and education. His father and maternal grandfather were
ministers; both of his grandfathers were talented organists; many of his
relatives were persons of scholarly attainments.
Schweitzer entered into his intensive theological studies in 1893 at the
University of Strasbourg where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy in
1899, with a dissertation on the religious philosophy of Kant, and
received his licentiate in theology in 1900. He began preaching at St.
Nicholas Church in Strasbourg in 1899; he served in various high ranking
administrative posts from 1901 to 1912 in the Theological College of St.
Thomas, the college he had attended at the University of Strasbourg. In
1906 he published The Quest of the Historical Jesus, a book on which much
of his fame as a theological scholar rests.
Meanwhile he continued with a distinguished musical career initiated at an
early age with piano and organ lessons. Only nine when he first performed
in his father's church, he was, from his young manhood to his middle
eighties, recognized as a concert organist, internationally known. From
his professional engagements he earned funds for his education,
particularly his later medical schooling, and for his African hospital.
Musicologist as well as performer, Schweitzer wrote a biography of Bach in
1905 in French, published a book on organ building and playing in 1906,
and rewrote the Bach book in German in 1908.
Having decided to go to Africa as a medical missionary rather than as a
pastor, Schweitzer in 1905 began the study of medicine at the University
of Strasbourg. In 1913, having obtained his M.D. degree, he founded his
hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, but in 1917 he and
his wife were sent to a French internment camp as prisoners of war.
Released in 1918, Schweitzer spent the next six years in Europe, preaching
in his old church, giving lectures and concerts, taking medical courses,
writing On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, The Decay and Restoration of
Civilization, Civilization and Ethics, and Christianity and the Religions
of the World.
Wife
Background:
Hélène
Bresslau was the daughter of a distinguished professor of history at
Strasbourg University, who later became Chancellor. (Schweitzer jokingly
called him “His Magnificence”)
Professor Bresslau was Jewish, but had his children baptised as
Christians. He was not baptised himself, perhaps because he didn’t want
to be accused of doing it for expediency.
Hélène was four years younger than Schweitzer. Her social conscience was
almost as highly developed as Schweitzer's and in addition she had
enthusiasm, efficiency, and a fine disregard of social convention. She
worked among verminous children at a state orphanage. She helped to found
and run a home for unmarried mothers, which was not at all a proper thing
for nice young ladies to do. She was one of the first women skiers. She
played the organ. At a time when young women were taking eagerly to
emancipation all over northern Europe, she was as liberated a woman as
Strasbourg could offer. And she had decided, like Schweitzer, that she
must one day devote herself entirely to social service.
Father
Background:
His
father the pastor to a Protestant minority in Catholic Alsace. From
infancy, Schweitzer was influenced by his father's speeches and example of
piety.
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