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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:
El Cid Campeador
Great
Medieval
Crusader:
El
Cid Campeador
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was known as El Cid Campeador, was a Castilian nobleman, then military and
political leader who conquered and governed the city of Valencia. Rodrigo
Díaz was educated in the royal court of Castile and became the alférez,
or chief general, of Alfonso VI, fighting against the Moors in the early
Reconquista. Later exiled by the king, El Cid left service in Castile and
worked as a mercenary for other rulers, both Muslim and Christian.
Basics:
Born: 1044
in Valencia
Died: July 10 1099
Nationality: Spanish
Religion:
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: He conquered and governed the city of
Valencia
Chronology
of Life Events:
1044
Birth
of El Cid
1063
He
fought in the Battle of Graus, where Ferdinand's half-brother, Ramiro I of
Aragon, had laid siege to the Moorish town of Graus which was in Zaragozan
lands.
1065
El
Cid was nominated by Sancho as cmmander of the royal troops
1067
He
accompanied Sancho on a campaign against the important Moorish kingdom of
Saragossa (Zaragoza) and played a leading role in the negotiations that
made its king, al-Muqtadir, a tributary of the Castilian crown.
1072
He
played a prominent part in Sancho's successful campaigns against Alfonso
and so found himself in an awkward situation
July
1074
He
married the king's niece [cousin] Jimena, daughter of the Count de Oviedo
1079
Embroiled
with García Ordóñez, who was aiding the king of Granada in an invasion
of the kingdom of Seville.
1081
He
led an unauthorized military raid into the Moorish kingdom of Toledo
May
1090
The
Cid defeated and captured Berenguer in the Battle of Lébar
May
1094
The
Cid finally entered Valencia as its conqueror.
Jul
10 1099
Death
of El Cid
Early
Life:
The
exact date of El Cid's birth is unknown. Based on his participation in
1063 at the Battle of Graus, however, most historians believe that El Cid
was born in the year of 1040, in Vivar (Bivar), a small town about six
miles north of Burgos, the capital of Castile. Historical records show
that El Cid's father was Diego Laínez, who was part of the minor nobility
(infanzones) of Castile. Diego Laínez was a courtier, bureaucrat, and
cavalryman who had fought in several battles. Despite the fact that El
Cid's mother's family was aristocratic, in later years the peasants would
consider him one of their own. However, his relatives were not major court
officials: documents show that El Cid's paternal grandfather, Lain Nuñez,
only confirmed five documents of Ferdinand I's; his maternal grandfather,
Rodrigo Alvarez, certified only two of Sancho II's; the Cid's own father
confirmed only one. This seems to indicate that El Cid's family was not
composed of major court.
El
Cid was educated in the Castilian royal court, serving the prince and
future king Sancho II, the son of King Ferdinand I (the Great). When
Ferdinand died in 1065, Sancho continued his father's goal of enlarging
his territory, conquering the Christian and the Moorish cities of Zamora
and Badajoz.
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Wife
Background:
The
Cid was married in July 1074 to Alfonso's niece Jimena (sometimes spelled
Ximena), the daughter of the Count of Oviedo. This was probably on
Alfonso's suggestion, a move that he probably hoped would improve
relations between him and the Cid. Together the Cid and Ximena had three
children. Their daughters, Christina and Maria, both married nobility;
Christina, to Ramiro, the infante (prince) of Aragon; Maria, to Ramon
Berenguer III, count of Barcelona. The Cid's son, Diego Rodriguez, would
be killed while fighting against the invading Muslim Almoravids in North
Africa at the Battle of Consuegra (1097). His own marriage and that of his
daughters increased his status by making the Cid connected by marriage to
royalty; even today, living monarchs are distantly related to El Cid
Father
Background:
El
Cid's father was Diego Laínez, who was part of the minor nobility (infanzones)
of Castile. Diego Laínez was a courtier, bureaucrat, and cavalryman who
had fought in several battles
Mother
Background:
El Cid's
mother's family was aristocratic, in later years the peasants would
consider him one of their own.
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