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How
To Assess Super
Attainers
Main Ingredients for Making Super Attainers
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:
Ayatollah Khomeini
Great
Religious Leader of Iran:
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was an Iranian politician, scholar and religious figure, and the political
leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran (Persia). Following the revolution,
Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader—the paramount political
figure of the new Islamic Republic until his death. Khomeini was a marja
or marja al-taqlid, ("source of emulation"), providing religious
leadership to many Twelver Shi'a Muslims, but is most famous for his
political role.
Basics:
Born: 24
September 1902, Khomein, Markazi Province, Persian Empire
Died: June 4, 1989 (aged 86), Tehran, Iran
Nationality:
Iranian
Religion: Islam
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: Became Supreme religious leader of Iran.
Chronology
of Life Events:
24
Sep 1902
Ruhollah
Musavi Khomeini is born in Khomein, Iran.
5
Jun 1963
Ayatollah
Khomeini arrested and thrown in prison by the Shah of Iran.
4
Nov 1964
Ayatollah
Khomeini arrested and deported to Turkey.
1978
Ayatollah
Khomeini declares that sodomized camels must be killed, but may not be
eaten.
16
Jan 1979
The
Shah flees Iran.
1
Feb 1979
Ayatollah
Khomeini returns to Iran.
11
Feb 1979
Ayatollah
Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
5
Nov 1979
Khomeini
declares U.S. to be "Great Satan," elevating himself to the same
status in Iran as the Beatles did in the West when they declared
themselves to be "bigger than Jesus."
Jul
1988
Issues
a Fatwa stating that all Mojahedin (regime dissidents and opponents of the
Islamic Republic) currently in prison that have not since changed
loyalties were to be hanged. Each prisoner was dragged out of prison and
posed the loyalty question. Those that answered incorrectly were
immediately taken outside and dangled from cranes. More than thirty
thousand lost their lives in this manner.
14
Feb 1989
Issues
a Fatwa against Salman Rushdie over Satanic Verses.
3
Jun 1989
Iranian
cleric Ayatollah Khomeini dies from prostate cancer, Tehran.
Early
Life:
Ruhollah
Musavi Khomeini was born to Mustafa Musawi and Hajiyah Aga Khanum in the
town of Khomein, about 300 kilometers (180 miles) south of Tehran, on
September 24, 1902. Khomeini is called a sayyid as his family allegedly
descends from the seventh of the Twelve Imams, Musa al-Kazim. Several of
his close ancestors were dedicated to Islamic studies: his father and both
of his grandfathers were all Shia clerics. Khomeini's paternal
grandfather, Sayid Ahmad Musawi Hindi, spent many years in India before
returning to Persia to purchase a home in Khomein that his family would
own until the late twentieth century. Khomeini's father was murdered when
he was still a baby. Popular myth insists Khomeini's father was killed by
Reza Shah, however this Shah would not come to power for another
twenty-five years. Many historians today believe his father may have been
the victim of a local dispute. Khomeini's mother and one of his aunts
proceeded to raise him until 1918, when both of them died. Ruhollah
Khomeini began to study the Qur'an, Islam's holiest book, and elementary
Persian at age six. The following year, he began to attend a local school,
where he learned math, science, geography, and other traditional subjects.
Throughout his childhood, he would continue his religious and secular
education with the assistance of his relatives, including his mother's
cousin, Ja'far, and his elder brother, Morteza Pasandideh.
After World War I, arrangements were made for him to study at the Islamic
seminary in Esfahan, but he was attracted instead to the seminary in Arak,
under the leadership of Ayatollah Abdul Karim Haeri Yazdi. In 1920,
Khomeini moved to Arak and commenced his studies. The following year,
Ayatollah Haeri Yazdi transferred the Islamic seminary to the holy city of
Qom, southwest of Tehran, and invited his students to follow. Khomeini
accepted the invitation, moved, and took up residence at the Dar al-Shafa
school in Qom. Khomeini's studies included Islamic law (sharia) and
jurisprudence (fiqh), but by that time, Khomeini had also acquired an
interest in poetry and philosophy (irfan). So, upon arriving in Qom,
Khomeini sought the guidance of Mirza Ali Akbar Yazdi, a scholar of
philosophy and mysticism. Yazdi died in 1924, but Khomeini would continue
to pursue his interest in philosophy with two other teachers, Javad Aqa
Maleki Tabrizi and Rafi'i Qazvini. However, perhaps Khomeini's biggest
influences were yet another teacher, Mirza Muhammad 'Ali Shahabadi, and a
variety of historic Sufi mystics, including Mulla Sadra and Ibn Arabi.
Ruhollah Khomeini was a lecturer at Najaf and Qum seminaries for decades
before he was known in the political scene. He soon became a leading
scholar of Shia Islam. He taught political philosophy, Islamic history and
ethics. Several of his students (e.g. Morteza Motahhari) later became
leading Islamic philosophers and also marja. As a scholar and teacher,
Khomeini produced numerous writings on Islamic philosophy, law, and
ethics. He showed an exceptional interest in subjects like philosophy and
gnosticism that not only were usually absent from the curriculum of
seminaries but were often an object of hostility and suspicion.
Wife
Background:
Khomeini
married Batoul Saqafi Khomeini, the 11-year-old daughter of a cleric in
Tehran.
Father
Background:
His
father and both of his grandfathers were all Shia clerics. Khomeini's
father was murdered when he was still a baby.
Mother
Background:
Khomeini's
mother and one of his aunts proceeded to raise him until 1918, when both
of them died.
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