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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:
Ferdinand
Magellan
First
Explorer to Sail Around the World:
Ferdinand
Magellan
Main
Life Accomplishments:
At
a young age of 17 Magellan sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and he
sailed for the king of Spain. He got five ships and left Seville on
September 20, 1519. He sailed around the tip of South America. He found
the westward passage and it was named the Strait of Magellan in his name.
He also found the new ocean and named it the Pacific in honour of its calm
and peaceful waters, and crossed it East to West. His crew moved on to the
Spice Islands and later made it back by sailing around the tip of South
Africa with only 10 men left. Even though he didn't live to the end of the
trip Magellan is still considered the leader of the first circumnavigation
around the world.
Basics:
Born: Spring
1480, Sabrosa, Portugal
Died: April 27, 1521 (41 years) Mactan Island Cebu Philippines
Nationality: Portuguese
Religion: Roman Catholic
Fields: Exploration
Main Accomplishments: He is one of the greatest Portuguese
explorers to ever sail the ocean, first explorer to circumnavigate the
globe and cross the Pacific Ocean
Chronology
of Life Events:
1480
Birth
of Ferdinand Magellan
1505
Ferdinand
Magellan went on his first voyage on the sea at the age of 25 in 1505,
when he was sent to India to install Francisco de Almeida as the
Portuguese viceroy. The voyage gave Magellan his first experience of
battle when a local king, who had paid tribute to Vasco da Gama three
years earlier, refused to pay tribute to Almeida. Almeida's party attacked
and conquered the capital of Kilwa in present-day Tanzania.
1506
Magellan
traveled to the East Indies and joined expeditions to the Spice Islands
(Malacca Island).
Feb.
1509
He
took part in the naval Battle of Diu, which marked the decline of Ottoman
influence in the area.
1510
He
was made a captain. Within a year, however, he had lost his commission
after sailing a ship eastward without permission.
1513
Magellan
was sent to Morocco, where he fought in the Battle of Azamor. In the midst
of the battle, he received a severe knee wound. After taking leave without
permission, he fell out of favor with Almeida, and was also accused of
trading illegally with the Moors. Several of the accusations were
subsequently dropped, but Magellan fell into disfavor at the court of the
new king, Manuel I. He refused to increase Magellan's pension and told him
that there would be no further offers of employment after May 15,
1514
Magellan
therefore decided to offer his services to the court of Spain.
August 10, 1519 ive ships (Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepcion, Victoria,
and Santiago) under Magellan's command left Seville and traveled from the
Guadalquivir River to Sanlúcar de Barrameda at the mouth of the river,
where they remained more than five weeks. Spanish authorities were wary of
the Portuguese admiral and almost prevented Magellan from sailing, and
switched his crew of mostly Portuguese men with men of Spain, but on
September 20, Magellan set sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270
men.
April
27, 1521
Magellan
was killed in the Battle of Mactan against indigenous forces led by
Lapu-Lapu
Early
Life:
Magellan's
parents died when he was ten. At 12, Magellan became a page to King John
II and Queen Eleonora at the royal court at the capital of Lisbon, where
his brother had gone two years before. Here, with his cousin Francisco
Serrano, Magellan continued his education, becoming interested in
geography and astronomy. Some speculate that he may even have been taught
by Martin Behaim. In 1496, Magellan became a squire.
At
age 20, Magellan first went to sea. In 1505 he was sent to India to
install Francisco de Almeida as a Portuguese viceroy there and establish
military and naval bases along the way. It was here that Magellan would
also first experience battle: when a local king refused to pay tribute,
Almeida's party attacked, conquering the Muslim city of Kilwa in
present-day Tanzania.
Magellan
next journeyed to the East Indies in 1506, taking part in expeditions to
the Spice Islands. In 1510, Magellan was promoted to the rank of captain.
However, after secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost
his command and was forced to return to Portugal.
In
1511, Magellan was sent to Morocco where he fought in the Battle of Azamor
(August 28 and 29, 1513) and received a severe knee wound while fighting
against the Moorish-Moroccan stronghold. Although wounded and the
recipient of several medals, Magellan was accused of illegal trade with
the Islamic Moors. He had also been involved in conflict with Almeida:
after Magellan took a leave of the army without permission, Almeida gave a
poor report on the sailor to the Portuguese court. Several of the
accusations were subsequently dropped, but Magellan fell into disfavor
with King Manuel I, who refused to raise Magellan's pension.The King also
told Magellan that he would have no further employment in his country's
service after May 15, 1514. Magellan formally renounced his nationality
and went to offer his services to the court of Spain, changing his name
from "Fernão de Magalhães" to "Hernándo
de Magallanes."
Wife
Background:
He
married a lady named Beatriz Barbosa, who was a Spanish cousin of his
friend named Duarte Barbosa.
Father
Background:
Rui
de Magalhães, son of Pedro Afonso de Magalhães and wife Quinta de Sousa.
Mother
Background:
Magellan's
mother was Alda de Mesquita and nothing is known about her except
her name.
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