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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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Greater
Leader of Byzantine Empire:
Basil
II
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
led the Byzantine Empire to its greatest heights in nearly five centuries.
However, he left no worthy heir and most of his achievements were undone
by a long line of weak successors.
Basics:
Born: 958
Died: 15 December 1025
Nationality: Roman
Religion:
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: The reign of Basil II, widely
acknowledged to be one of the outstanding Byzantine emperors, admirably
illustrates the strength of the Byzantine system of government. His
forceful personality made enemies and friends to acknowledge him as sole
ruler.
Chronology
of Life Events:
958
Born
976
Basil
II becomes Eastern Roman Emperor, see Byzantine Emperors.
988
Vladimir
I, Prince of Kiev marries Anna, sister of Byzantine
emperor Basil II and converts to Christianity . Baptism of
Kievan Rus'.
995
Basil
II lift the siege of Aleppo by mounting his entire army and
transferring it across Anatollah in sixteen days.
1002
All-out
war breaks out between Byzantine Emperor Basil II and
Bulgarian Tsar Samuil.
1014
Battle
of Kleidion: Basil II inflicts not only a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian
army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly
causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock, and earns Basil II the
title 'Voulgaroktonos' (Bulgar-slayer).
1025
Died
Early
Life:
Basil
was the son of Emperor Romanos II by Theophano, whose family was of
Armenian descent. In 960, he was associated on the throne by his father,
but the latter died in 963, when Basil was only five years old. Because he
and his brother, the future Emperor Constantine VIII (ruled 1025–1028),
were too young to reign in their own right, Basil's mother Theophano
married one of Romanos' leading generals, who took the throne as the
Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas several months later in 963. Nikephoros was
murdered in 969, only to be succeeded by another general, who became
Emperor John I Tzimisces and reigned for seven years. Finally, when John
died on January 10, 976, Basil II took the throne as senior emperor.
Father
Background:
Romanos
II was a son of Emperor Constantine VII and Helena Lekapene, the daughter
of Emperor Romanos I and his wife Theodora. Named after his maternal
grandfather, Romanos was married, as a child, to Bertha, the illegitimate
daughter of Hugh of Arles, King of Italy. On April 6, 945, after the fall
of the Lekapenoi, Constantine VII associated his son Romanos on the
throne. With Hugh out of power in Italy and dead by 947, and Bertha
herself dead in 949, Romanos secured the promise from his father that he
would be allowed to select his own bride. Romanos' choice fell on an
innkeeper's daughter named Anastaso, whom he married in 956 and renamed
Theophano.
In November 959 Romanos II succeeded his father on the throne, among
rumors that he or his wife had sped up the end of Constantine VII by
poison. Romanos carried out a virtual purge of his father's courtiers and
replaced them with his own friends and those of his wife. Among the
persons removed from court were the Empress Mother, Helena, and her
daughters, all of them being relegated to a monastery. Nevertheless, many
of Romanos' appointees were able men, including his chief adviser, the
eunuch Joseph Bringas.
The pleasure-loving sovereign could also leave military matters in the
adept hands of his generals, in particular the brothers Leo and Nikephoros
Phokas. In 960 Nikephoros Phokas was sent with a fleet of 1,000 dromons,
2,000 chelandia, and 308 transports (entire fleet was manned by 27,000
oarsmen and marines) carrying 50,000 men to recover Crete from the
Muslims. After a difficult campaign and the 9-month siege of Chandax,
Nikephoros successfully re-established Byzantine control over the entire
island in 961. Following a triumph celebrated at Constantinople,
Nikephoros was sent to the eastern frontier, where the Emir of Aleppo Sayf
al-Daula was engaged in annual raids into Byzantine Anatolia. Nikephoros
conquered Cilicia and even Aleppo in 962, sacking the palace of the Emir
and taking possession of 390,000 silver dinars, 2,000 camels, and 1,400
mules. In the meantime Leo Phokas and Marianos Argyros had countered
Magyar incursions into the Byzantine Balkans.
After a lengthy hunting expedition Romanos II took ill and died on March
15, 963. Rumor attributed his death to poison administered by his wife
Theophano. Romanos II's reliance on his wife and on bureaucrats like
Joseph Bringas had resulted in a relatively capable administration, but
built up resentment among the nobility, which was associated with the
military.
Mother
Background:
She
was a Byzantine empress. She was the daughter-in-law of Constantine VII;
wife of Romanos II; wife of Nikephoros II Phokas; lover of John I
Tzimiskes; the mother of Basil II, Constantine VIII and the princess Anna
Porphyrogenita, who later married the Russian prince Vladimir.
This beautiful but considerably amoral woman played an important role in
10th century Byzantine history. An innkeeper's daughter by the name of
Anastaso, the crown-prince Romanos fell in love with her around the year
956 and married her. After their marriage, she was renamed Theophano,
after Theophano, a sainted Empress of the Macedonian dynasty.
She is rumoured to have poisoned her father-in-law, the emperor
Constantine VII (in complicity with her husband Romanos).
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