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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:
Christopher
Columbus
Great
Explorer of the New World:
Christopher
Columbus
Main
Life Accomplishments:
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Europeans wanted to find sea routes to the East. Columbus wanted to find a new route to the Far East, to India, China, Japan and the Spice Islands. If he could reach these lands, he would be able to bring back rich cargoes of silks and spices. Columbus knew that the world was round and realised that by sailing west, instead of east around the coast of Africa, as other explorers at the time were doing, he would still reach the East and the rich Spice Islands.
Basics:
Born: 1451, Genoa Italy
Died:
20-May-1506, Valladolid, Spain
Nationality: Italian
Religion:
Roman Catholic
Fields: Exploration
Main Accomplishments: He re-discovered the New-World
Chronology
of Life Events:
The Early Years:
1451
Born in Genoa, the son of a wool merchant and weaver.
1476
Swims ashore when his ship is sunk in a battle off Portugal.
1476
Joins his brother Bartholomew, a cartographer, in Lisbon.
1477-1482
Makes merchant voyages as far as Iceland and Guinea.
1484
Conceives of "The Enterprise of the Indies." Fails to convince King John of Portugal to back the plan.
1485
Moves to Spain.
1492/1/2
Ferdinand & Isabela capture Granada, the last Moorish city in Spain.
The First
Voyage:
1492/8/3
Departs from Palos, Spain (near
Huelva)
1492/9/6
Departs Gomera (Canary Islands) after repair and
refit.
1492/10/12
New world sighted at 2:00 a.m. by Rodrigo de
Triana, somewhere in the
Bahamas.
1492/10/29
Arrives at
Cuba.
1492/11/22
Martín Alonso
Pinzón, captain of the Pinta, deserts the expedition off
Cuba.
1492/12/5
Columbus arrives at
Hispaniola.
1492/12/25
Flagship Santa Maria sinks off
Hispaniola. Columbus founds La Navidad.
1493/1/6
Pinzón rejoins
Columbus.
1493/1/16
Columbus departs Hispaniola for Spain in the
Niña.
1493/2/14
Niña and Pinta are separated again in a fierce
storm.
1493/2/15
Sights Santa Maria Island in the
Azores.
1493/3/4
Arrives at Lisbon,
Portugal.
1493/3/15
Niña and Pinta return separately to Palos,
Spain.
The Second
Voyage:
1493 Sept
The Grand Fleet of 17 ships departs
Cadiz.
1493/10/13
Departs Hierro (Canary Islands), sailing
WSW
1493/11/3
The island of Dominica sighted at dawn; Guadeloupe shortly
after.
1493/11/22
Arrives at
Hispaniola.
1493/11/28
Returns to
Navidad, finds fort destroyed.
1493/12/8
Founds new colony of La
Isabela.
1494/4/24
Sails from Isabela in search of
mainland.
1494/4/30
Arrives at
Cuba.
1494/5/5
Arrives at
Jamaica.
1494/5/14
Returns to
Cuba.
1494/6/13
Starts the return to La
Isabela.
1494/8/20
Reaches
Hispaniola.
1496/3/10
Departs from La Isabela for
Spain.
1496/6/8
Reaches the coast of
Portugal.
The Third
Voyage:
1498/5/30
Departs from
Sanlucar, Spain, with six
ships.
1498/6/19
Arrives at Gomera (Canary Islands); splits fleet into two
squadrons.
1498/7/4
Departs from the Cape Verde
Islands.
1498/7/31
Arrives at
Trinidad.
1498/8/13
Leaves the Gulf of
Paria, arrives at Margartia.
1498/8/19
Arrives at
Hispaniola.
1500 October
Columbus is arrested and sent home in
chains.
The Fourth
Voyage:
1502/5/11
Departs from Cadiz, Spain, with four
ships.
1502/6/29
Arrives at Santo Domingo,
Hispaniola.
1502/7/30
Arrives at the Mosquito Coast, modern
Nicaragua.
1503/1/9
Establishes garrison at Rio
Belen.
1503/4/6
Garrison attacked by Indians and
abandoned.
1503/4/16
Leaves Rio Belen for
home.
1503/6/25
Ships beached and abandoned at Jamaica, marooning
crew.
1504/6/29
Crew rescued from
Jamaica.
1504/11/7
Columbus returns to
Spain.
1506/5/20
Columbus dies at Valladolid.
Early
Life:
As
a boy, Christopher joined his father in the family business of wool
processing and selling. He may have worked as a clerk in a Genoese bookshop
as well. However, as did many other young men who grew up in a major
seaport, Columbus soon began a life of seafaring.
Although
it is not known how much formal training Columbus received as a child,
Italian craft guilds did offer a rudimentary level of reading and writing in
their schools. As a boy and a young man, Christopher joined his father in
the family business of wool processing and selling. He may have worked as a
clerk in a Genoese bookshop as well. At a time when it was generally
expected that sons follow their fathers in the family business, it was,
nevertheless, natural for them to turn to the seas for a career. Like so
many other young men growing up in a major sea port, Columbus began a life
of seafaring in his early teens.
In
1470, the family moved to Savona, where Christopher worked for his father in
wool processing. During this period he studied cartography with his brother
Bartolomeo. Christopher received almost no formal education; a voracious
reader, he was largely self-taught.
In
1474, Columbus joined a ship of the Spinola Financiers, who were Genoese
patrons of his father. He spent a year on a ship bound towards Khios (an
island in the Aegean Sea) and, after a brief visit home, spent a year in
Khios. It is believed that this is where he recruited some of his sailors.
In
1476, commercial expedition gave Columbus his first opportunity to sail into
the Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by French privateers off the
Cape of St. Vincent, Portugal. Columbus's ship was burned and he swam six
miles to shore.
By
1477, Columbus was living in Lisbon. Portugal had become a center for
maritime activity with ships sailing for England, Ireland, Iceland, Madeira,
the Azores, and Africa. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a mapmaker
in Lisbon. At times, the brothers worked together as draftsmen and book
collectors. He became a merchant sailor with the Portuguese fleet, and
sailed to Iceland via Ireland in 1477. He sailed to Madeira in 1478 to
purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between 1482 and 1485,
reaching the Portuguese trade post of Elmina Castle in the Gulf of Guinea
coast.
Wife
Background:
Columbus
married Felipa Perestrello Moniz, a daughter from a noble Portuguese family
with some Italian ancestry, in 1479. Felipa's father, Bartolomeu Perestrelo,
had partaken in finding the Madeira Islands and owned one of them (Porto
Santo Island), but died when Felipa was a baby, leaving his second wife a
wealthy widow. As part of his dowry, the mariner received all of
Perestello's charts of the winds and currents of the Portuguese possessions
of the Atlantic. Columbus and Felipa had a son, Diego Colón in 1480. Felipa
died in January of 1485. Columbus later found a lifelong partner in Spain,
an orphan named Beatriz Enriquez. She was living with a cousin in the
weaving industry of Córdoba. They never married, but Columbus left Beatriz
a rich woman and directed Diego to treat her as his own mother. The two had
a son, Ferdinand in 1488. Both boys served as pages to Prince Juan, son of
Ferdinand and Isabella, and each later contributed, with fabulous success,
to the rehabilitation of their father's reputation.
Father
Background:
He was born in 1418. He had 3 brothers,
Franceschino, Giacomo and Bertino. His father, Giovanni Colombo, had apprenticed his son,
Domenico, to the loom at age 11. Domenico, a third-generation master of his craft in Genoa, Italy, was also a shopkeeper. His secure, respectable position in the lower middle class did not, however, guarantee his having a firm work ethic. Despite, or because of, having fingers in several problems, he was a poor provider and a worse credit risk, yet a pleasant, well-liked fellow withal. The transactions of
Domenico, that he was carder and lanaiolo, proceeded with alternate fortunes: he had opened one tavern to
Savona, trading also with the wool and
traveling continuously. He was also in the commerce of wines and other kinds, let alone in the sale of asses and lands. When he was found in financial difficulty, he was helped economically from Christopher. Forsaking the loom, two of his sons-Bartholomew and Christopher-went to sea. If Domenico had, however, been prosperous, Christopher might have spent his entire life at a loom.
He lived in a house to the Plan of Sant'Andrea. In the Straight Alley, in the quarter of
Ponticello, neighbor to the Door of
Saint' Andrea, call also Soprana Door. In this house, Domenico died in 1496.
Mother
Background:
His mother was
Suzanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a wool weaver.
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