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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:
Douglas MacArthur
Great
American
Military General:
Douglas
MacArthur
Main
Life Accomplishments:
During
World War I Macarthur served in France, as chief of staff of the 42nd
("Rainbow") Division. Upon his promotion to Brigadier General he
became the commander of the 84th Infantry Brigade Macarthur ordered
drastic changes in the tactical, athletic and disciplinary systems; he
modernized the curriculum, adding liberal arts, government and economics
courses As a general, Macarthur elected not to retire and remained on the
active list as a major general and with Roosevelt's approval Macarthur
accepted the assignment
Basics:
Born:
January 26, 1880 Little Roc
Died: April 5, 1964
Nationality: American
Religion: Waldorf-Astoria
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: MacArthur oversaw the Occupation of
Japan from 1945 to 1951. Although criticized for protecting Emperor
Hirohito and the imperial family, he is credited with implementing
far-ranging democratic changes in that country. He led the United Nations
Command forces defending South Korea against the North Korean invasion
from 1950 to 1951. On April 11, 1951 MacArthur was removed from command by
President Harry S. Truman for publicly disagreeing with Truman's Korean
War Policy.
MacArthur is credited with the military dictum, "In war, there is no
substitute for victory" but he also warned, "The soldier, above
all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest
wounds and scars of war." He fought in three major wars (World War I,
World War II, Korean War) and was one of only five men ever to rise to the
rank of General of the Army.
Chronology
of Life Events:
Jan
26 1880
Born
1904-1914
Assigned
to engineering duties in the Philippines, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan,
Texas, and Panama. During that time he attended the Engineer School of
Application (1906-1907), receiving a degree in 1908, and worked in the
Office of the Chief of Engineers
1917
- 1918
Macarthur
served two tours of duty in the Philippines, the second as commander of
the Philippine Department
1922-1930
Army
ranked 16th in size among the world's armies, with 13,000 officers and
126,000 enlisted men.
Oct
1935
As
part of the surrender of Japan, the United States agreed with the Soviet
Union to divide the Korean peninsula along the 38th parallel. This
resulted in the creation of two states: the western-aligned Republic of
Korea (ROK) (often referred to as 'South Korea'), and the Soviet-aligned
and Communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) (generally
referred to as 'North Korea')
1945
Becomes
Chief of Staff of the 42nd Infantry Division and is credited with naming
it the "Rainbow Division". Joins the American Expeditionary
Force bound for France
April
5 1964
Death
of MacAthur
Early
Life:
Douglas
MacArthur was the grandson of jurist and politician Arthur
MacArthur, Sr.. He was baptized at Christ Episcopal Church in
Little Rock on May 16, 1880. In his memoir Reminiscences, MacArthur
wrote that his first memory was the sound of the bugle, and that he had
learned to 'ride and shoot even before I could read or write--indeed,
almost before I could walk and talk. MacArthur's father was posted to San
Antonio, Texas in 1893. There, Douglas attended West Texas
Military Academy (now known as T.M.I.:
The Episcopal School of Texas), where he became an excellent
student .
As
a young officer in the Pancho
Villa Expedition (also called the Punitive Expedition) in
1916-1917, MacArthur distinguished himself in several acts of personal
bravery, including one railroad chase back to American lines for which he
was highly decorated .
During
World
War I MacArthur served in France,
as chief of staff of the 42nd
("Rainbow") Division. Upon his promotion to Brigadier
General he became the commander of the 84th Infantry Brigade. A
few weeks before the war ended he became division commander. During the
war.
When
the Commonwealth
of the Philippines achieved semi-independent status in 1935,
with its own army, the President
of the Philippines Manuel
L. Quezon asked MacArthur to supervise the creation of a Philippine
Army. As a general, MacArthur elected not to retire and
remained on the active list as a major general and with Roosevelt's
approval MacArthur accepted the assignment. MacArthur had been friends
with Quezon when his father was Governor General. MacArthur had two
conditions for taking the job: his salary was to be the same as the
President's, and his housing had to be equal to that of the President.
Wife
Background:
General
MacArthur was married twice. His first marriage, on February 14, 1922, was
to socialite Louise Cromwell Brooks, the divorced wife of Walter Brooks Jr,
and the stepdaughter of Edward T. Stotesbury, a wealthy Philadelphia
banker. She obtained a divorce from MacArthur in 1929 on the grounds that
he had failed to support her.
Henrietta
Louise Cromwell Brooks (c. 1890 - May 30, 1965) was an American socialite
and the first wife of General Douglas MacArthur.
Brooks, who was "considered one of Washington's most beautiful and
attractive young women" made her debut in Washington DC in 1910. Her
mother, Eva Roberts Cromwell, married the businessman Edward T. Stotesbury
after the death of her first husband, Louise's father, Oliver Eaton
Cromwell of Philadelphia. Louise's brother was James H. R. Cromwell, the
American diplomat and husband to Doris Duke.
Louise Cromwell was married to Walter J. Brooks, Jr. in 1911. They
divorced in 1919. She married MacArthur in 1922. That marriage ended in
1929. She next married the actor Lionel Atwill, whom she divorced in 1943.
In 1944 she married Alf Heiberg. That marriage also ended in divorce.
According to Time Magazine, a 1922 press report claimed that General John
J. Pershing threatened to send General MacArthur to the Philippines if
Louise married MacArthur.[2]
Brooks died of a heart attack in Washington DC at the age of 75..
MacArthur was married to Jean Marie Faircloth of Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
on April 30, 1937. Their only child, Arthur, was born in Manila on Feb.
21, 1938. Arthur graduated from Columbia University in 1961.
"Arthur" was a family name - being the name of MacArthur's
grandfather, father and eldest brother. Since his brother Arthur MacArthur
III was deceased at this point and had failed to give that name to his own
son (naming him instead Douglas MacArthur II), MacArthur "laid
claim"[8] to the name for his son, thus Arthur MacArthur IV.
Father
Background:
.MacArthur
attended school briefly at Wesleyan College in Connecticut, but dropped
out to help his family through a severe economic depression in 1837. He
worked as a law clerk in Boston and then New York, and was admitted to the
New York bar in 1841. Around 1844, he married Aurelia Belcher (1819 -
1864), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. With the help of his
father-in-law, MacArthur established a very successful legal practice in
Springfield.
Mother
Background:
During the
Victorian era in which she was raised, women like Mary Pinkney Hardy
MacArthur, known as "Pinky" to her friends, were more often
judged by the achievements of their husbands and sons than by their own.
Applying this standard, Mrs. MacArthur -- wife of a highly accomplished
General, mother of one of the greatest soldiers in American history -- was
surely one of the more successful women of her day.
She was raised at Riveredge, the Hardy family plantation just outside of
Norfolk, Virginia. A proper Southern belle, Pinky was proud of her four
brothers who fought with the Confederate Army. Her family was less than
pleased, then, when she announced her engagement to Arthur MacArthur, Jr.,
the young hero of the Union's important victory at Missionary Ridge. Her
brothers refused to attend the ceremony when the two were married at
Riveredge in May of 1875. But the color of her husband's uniform mattered
less to Pinky than the honor of his vocation, and she proved to be an
outstanding army wife.
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