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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:
Erwin Rommel
Great
German Military General:
Erwin
Rommel
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was one of the most distinguished German field marshals of World War II.
He was the commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps and also became known
by the nickname “The Desert Fox” (Wüstenfuchs) for the skillful
military campaigns he waged on behalf of the German Army in North Africa.
He was later in command of the German forces opposing the Allied
cross-channel invasion at Normandy.
Rommel's
military successes earned the respect not only of his troops and Hitler,
but also that of his enemy Commonwealth troops in the North African
Campaign. Following the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa, and whilst
commanding the defense of Occupied France, his fortunes changed when he
was suspected (correctly or incorrectly) of involvement in a failed plot
to kill Hitler in 1944.
Basics:
Born:
15 November 1891 in Heidenheim, Germany
Died: 14 October 1944 ( 53 years old) at Herrlingen, Germany
Nationality: German
Religion:
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: A clever tactician who used his
numerically inferior forces to such great advantage that his reputation
became a threat to Allied morale.
Chronology
of Life Events:
Nov
15 1891
Birth
of Erwin Rommel
Nov
17 1891
Baptism
of Erwin Rommel
1905
Rommel
and a friend built a full-scale glider that was able to fly short
distances
1910
He
joined the local 124th Württemberg Infantry Regiment as an officer cadet
1911
He
graduated in a Officer Cadet School
1912
He
was commissioned as lieutenant
1913
Rommel
also had an affair with Walburga Stemmer
1916
He
got married
1929-1933
Rommel
held battalion commands and was an instructor at the Dresden Infantry
School
1937
Rommel
conducted a tour of HJ meetings and encampments
1938
He
was appointed commandant of the War Academy at Wiener Neustadt
Jun
5 1940
Rommel's
panzers reached Arras.
Feb
6 1941
Rommel
resumed his advance in a drive for the Seine river
Dec
30 1941
Rommel
was ordered to lead the Afrika Korps,
May
26 1942
Rommel
was forced to retreat all the way back to the starting positions he had
held in March, reaching El Agheila
Aug
17 1943
Rommel's
army attacked in a classic outflanking Blitzkrieg operation in the Battle
of Gazala.
July
17 1944
Rommel
moved his headquarters from Munich to Lake Garda,
Oct
14 1944
Rommel
ended his own life
Early
Life:
Rommel
was born in Heidenheim, Germany, approximately 45 kilometers from Ulm, in
the state of Württemberg. He was baptized on 17 November 1891. He was the
second son of a Protestant headmaster of the secondary school at Aalen,
Prof. Erwin Rommel the elder and Helene von Luz, a daughter of a prominent
local dignitary. The couple also had three more children, two sons, Karl
and Gerhard, and a daughter, Helene. Later, recalling his childhood,
Rommel wrote that "my early years passed very happily."
At
the age of fourteen, Rommel and a friend built a full-scale glider that
was able to fly short distances. Young Erwin considered becoming an
engineer and would throughout his life display extraordinary technical
aptitude; however, at his father's insistence, he joined the local 124th Württemberg
Infantry Regiment as an officer cadet in 1910 and, shortly after, was sent
to the Officer Cadet School in Danzig. He graduated in November 1911 and
was commissioned as a lieutenant in January 1912.
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Wife
Background:
While
at Cadet School, early in 1911, Rommel met his future wife, 17-year-old
Lucia Maria Mollin (commonly called Lucie). They married in 1916, and in
1928 had a son, Manfred, who would later become the mayor of Stuttgart.
Scholars argue that, during this time, Rommel also had an affair with
Walburga Stemmer in 1913 and that relationship produced a daughter named
Gertrud.
Father
Background:
Erwin
Johannes Eugen Rommel was a local schoolmaster and former artillery
officer.
Mother
Background:
Helena von
Luz was the daughter of the local Regierungs-Prasident.
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