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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: Bartholomeu Dias

Great
Portuguese Navigator:
Bartholomeu
Dias
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the
southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since
ancient times.
In
1481 Dias accompanied Diogo de Azambuja on an expedition to the Gold
Coast. Dias was a cavalier of the royal court, superintendent of the royal
warehouses and sailing-master of the man-of-war São Cristóvão (Saint
Christopher). King John II of Portugal appointed him on 10 October 1486 as
the head of an expedition which was to endeavor to sail around the
southern end of Africa in hopes of finding a trade route leading to Asia.
The chief purpose of the expedition was to find the country of the
legendary Christian African king known as Prester John, concerning whom
recent reports had arrived through João Afonso de Aveiro and with whom
the Portuguese wished to enter into friendly relations.
Basics:
Born:
1457 in Portugal
Died: May 29 1500 ( 43 years old) off the Cape of Good Hope in a
storm
Nationality: Portuguese
Religion: Roman Catholic
Fields: Exploration
Main Accomplishments: All his voyages summed up to the
addition of one thousand four hundred miles to King John’s world map. He
discovered the Cape of Storms, which was later renamed by King John as the
Cape of Good Hope. He also found a sea route to the Indian Ocean, which
created a great advantage for Portugal in trading around that area.
Chronology
of Life Events:
1457
Bartolomeu
Dias was born in Portugal
1481
Bartolomeu
Dias joined Diogo d'Azambuja to explore the Gold Coast of Africa
Oct
10 1486
King
John II of Portugal appoints Bartolomeu Dias leader of an expedition to
sail around the southern most tip of Africa and make contact with a
Christian ruler in the Indies called Prester John. Marco Polo and Vasco de
Gama had both informed the Portuguese court of the existence of Prester
John, King of Ethiopia
Aug
1487
Bartolomeu
Dias embarked from the River Tagus below Lisbon on his voyage of
exploration around Africa to the Indies with two armed caravels and one
supply-ship, a square-rigger, which was commanded by his brother, Pero
Dias
Dec
1487
They
reached Golfo da Conceicão (Walvis Bay)
Jan
1488
Unknowingly
the sailed through a terrible storm around the Cape of Good Hope which
Diaz called called Cabo Tormentosa - the Cape of Storms
Feb
3 1488
Sailed
North to Bahia dos Vaqueiros (Mossel Bay) where they landed
Mar
14 1488
West
of Bushman's River mouth, they dropped anchor at a headland, called False
Islet, now known as Kwaaihoek and decided to embark on their return
journey home
Dec
1488
Bartolomeu
Dias returned to Lisbon having opened up lucrative trading routes from
Europe to Asia and with invaluable information for future Portuguese
voyages of exploration
1497
Dias
accompanied the expedition led by Vasco da Gama to India
1500
Dias
accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral on the voyage that resulted in the
discovery of Brazil. This voyage mysteriously took a course to the New
World and Cabral discovered Brazil - the expedition then turned back
towards the south coast of Africa
May
24 1500
Bartolomeu
Dias dies in a violent storm in the Cape of Good Hope
Early
Life:
Bartolomeu
Dias came from a noble Portuguese family and his father attended the
Portuguese court. It is believed that Dias came from a family of seamen
and explorers including Joao Dias who sailed around Cape Bojador in 1434
and Diniz Dias who discovered the Cape Verde Islands
Bartolomeu
Dias was well educated as befitted his status and would have been taught
several languages, physics, geometry, mathematics and astronomy.
He
was a member of the royal Portuguese court and held the title of Sailing
Master of the Portuguese man-of-war Sao Cristovao (San Christovao)

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