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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:
David Ben Gurion
First
Prime Minister of Israel:
David
Ben Gurion
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Was
the first Prime Minister of Israel. As a child, Ben-Gurion developed a
boundless passion towards the ideals of Zionism. This drive resulted in
David's instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel at the
expiration of the British Mandate.
Lead
Israel to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he oversaw the
establishment of the state's institutions and vast influx of immigrants.
Upon retiring from political life in 1970, he returned to Sde Boker where
he passed away. Posthumously, Ben-Gurion was named one of Time Magazine 's
100 Most Important People of the Century.
Basics:
Born: October
16, 1886 in Płońsk, Poland
Died: December 1, 1973 ( 87 years old) at Israel
Nationality: Polish
Religion:
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: One of the most influential leaders of
Zionism, David Ben-Gurion declared Israel an independent state in 1948 and
served as the first Prime Minister and Defense Minister.
Chronology
of Life Events:
Oct
16 1886
Birth
of David Ben-Gurion
May
14 1948
He
passed the resolution to declare the independence of Israel
Feb
25 1949
Ben-Gurion
led Israel during its War of Independence. He became Prime Minister
1953
Ben-Gurion
announced his intention to withdraw from government and settle in the
Kibbutz Sde-Boker, in the Israeli Negev.
1955
He
returned to the office assuming the post of Defense Minister and later
prime-minister.
1963
He
stepped down as Prime Minister
1968
When
Rafi merged with Mapai to form the Alignment, Ben-Gurion refused to
reconcile with his old party due to it postponing plans to reform the
electoral system (Ben-Gurion wanted to see a constituency-based system
introduced to replace the chaotic proportional representation method).
1970
Ben-Gurion
retired from politics
Early
Life:
Ben-Gurion
was born as David Grün in Płońsk, Poland which was then part of
the Russian Empire. His father, Avigdor Grün was a lawyer and a leader in
the Hovevei Zion organization. His mother, Scheindel, died when David was
11 years old.
He
became an ardent Zionist and socialist and moved to Palestine in 1906, in
part because of his father's interests, but also shocked by the pogroms
and rampant anti-Semitism that plagued Jewish life in Eastern Europe.
He
first worked as an agricultural laborer in the orange groves, and later as
a journalist. He studied Law at Istanbul University together with Yitzhak
Ben-Zvi. It was during this time that he adopted his Hebrew name
Ben-Gurion as he began his political career. He was expelled from
Palestine, then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, in 1915 due to his
political activities.
Settling
in New York City in 1915 he met Russian-born Paula Munweis. They were
married in 1917, and had three children. He joined the British Army in
1918 as part of the 38th Battalion of the Jewish Legion (following the
Balfour Declaration in November 1917). He and his family returned to
Palestine after World War I after it had been captured by the British from
the Ottoman Empire.
.
Wife
Background:
Paula
(Munweis or Monbesz) Ben-Gurion (Hebrew: פולה
בן גוריון; 1892 –
1968) was the Russian-born wife of David Ben-Gurion the founding Prime
Minister of Israel. They had three children together: Geula, Amos and
Renana.
Paula was raised in the United States and was known for her "acerbic
tongue". She was fluent in Yiddish, English, and Hebrew. Ben-Gurion
met his future wife, Paula Munweis, who was a nurse (trained at Beth
Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey) and an active member of the Poalei
Zion Zionist organization, in the home of his friend, Samuel Bonchek on a
visit to New York City. They married in 1917 at New York City's Municipal
Building before returning to Palestine where Ben-Gurion enlisted as a
soldier in the new Jewish Legion of World War I.
She was a feisty woman and famous for not being afraid to ask her husband
to wash the dishes indicative of their Zionist and socialist zeal. She was
bemused by her husband's interest in yoga and when his tutor, the famous
Moshé Feldenkrais would show up she would say: "Here comes Mr. Hocus
Pocus."
Ben-Gurion published a book for her: Letters to Paula and the Children in
1958. A number of schools and institutions in Israel were named for her.
Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Television, is her great-nephew.
Paula is buried with her husband in Ben-Gurion Memorial National Park
Father
Background:
His
father, Avigdor Grün was a lawyer and a leader in the Hovevei Zion
movement reclaim Palestine as a homeland for the oppressed Jews of Eastern
Europe.
.
Mother
Background:
His mother,
Scheindel, passed away when he was 11 years old
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