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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:
Fidel Castro
Founder
of Communist Cuba:
Fidel
Castro
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
is a Cuban revolutionary leader who led his country from December 1959
until his resignation in February 2008.
Castro began his political life with nationalist critiques of Fulgencio
Batista, and of United States political and corporate influence in Cuba.
He gained an ardent, but limited, following and also drew the attention of
the authorities. He eventually led the failed 1953 attack on the Moncada
Barracks, after which he was captured, tried, incarcerated and later
released. He then traveled to Mexico to organize and train for the
invasion of Cuba that took place in December 1956.
Castro came to power as a result of the Cuban revolution that overthrew
the dictator Fulgencio Batista, and shortly thereafter became Prime
Minister of Cuba. In 1965 he became First Secretary of the Communist Party
of Cuba and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist
republic. At his behest, Cuba also evolved into a Soviet client-state
during the Cold War. In 1976 he became President of the Council of State
as well as of the Council of Ministers. He also held the supreme military
rank of Comandante en Jefe ("Commander in Chief") of the Cuban
armed forces.
Basics:
Born: August
13, 1926 (1926-08-13) (age 82), Birán, Holguín Province, Cuba
Nationality: Cuban
Religion: Atheist
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: Founder of Communist Cuba and one of the
longest serving leaders of any modern nation.
Chronology
of Life Events:
August
13, 1926
Castro
is born in Biran, southeastern Cuba; the third of seven children of
Spanish immigrant Angel Castro and Cuban Lina Ruz.
1931-1945
Studies
in Santiago de Cuba at La Salle and the Jesuit college of Dolores. Later
he studies at Havana's Jesuit College of Belen.
1945
Studies
law at Havana University.
1947
Joins
a failed coup attempt against Dominican Republic's dictator Rafael
Trujillo.
October
12, 1948
Marries
Mirta Diaz-Balart from a wealth and influential family. They spend their
honeymoon in the United States.
1949
His
first son, Fidelito, is born. Under death threat from rival politicians,
he flees to New York for a time.
1950
Graduates
with a doctorate in law.
1952
Fulgencio
Batista takes power in a coup, sparking protests from Castro, who goes
underground with his anti-government activities.
1953
Leads
a failed attack on Santiago de Cuba's Moncada military barracks -- 69 of
the 111 men who took part are killed and Castro is arrested. He is
sentenced to 15 years in jail.
1954
Files
for divorce from Mirta and custody battle ensues over Fidelito.
May
15, 1955
Gets
out of jail under amnesty and establishes and heads the July 26 Movement.
July
7, 1955
Flees
to Mexico where he meets Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che"
Guevara and Maria Laborde, who would give birth to son Jorge Angel.
March
3, 1956
Daughter
Alina Fernandez Revuelta is born. Mother is Naty Revuelta.
December
2, 1956
Lands
in southeastern Cuba with 81 fighters and launches a 25-month-long
military campaign in the Sierra Maestra mountains.
February
16, 1957
Meets
Celia Sanchez, his main lifetime partner and right hand person until her
demise in 1980.
January
1, 1959
Batista
flees the country. Castro makes victorious entry in Havana on January 8.
He is appointed prime minister in February.
March
10, 1959
Foils
a US assassination plot against him.
April
15-27, 1959
Meets
US Vice President Richard Nixon in the United States.
1960
Establishes
diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
1961
The
United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba. Castro meets Dalia
Soto del Valle, with whom he has five children.
April
17-19, 1961
Defeats
1,400 anti-Castro fighters in the US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion.
October
22-28, 1962
The
Cuban missile crisis.
April
1963
Castro
makes his first visit to the Soviet Union.
October
15, 1967
Castro
announces "Che" Guevara was killed in Bolivia.
1975
Sends
troops to help Angola independence fighters.
1979
Hosts
non-aligned movement summit and becomes its president until 1982
1980
Gives
green light to refugee exodus of 125,000 on boat lift from Mariel to US.
1985
Stops
smoking his cherished Cohiba cigars.
1988
Criticises
Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika in the Soviet Union.
1990
Cuba
begins "special period" following USSR's dismemberment.
1995
Visits
China for the first time.
1998
Welcomes
John Paul II in his historic visit to Cuba.
1999
Presides
over Latin American Summit in Havana and launches Cuban drive to get
Florida to give up Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian Gonzalez, who after a
seven-month tug of war is returned to his father in Cuba.
June
23, 2001
Passes
out during a public event in Havana.
March
2003
Orders
the arrest of 75 opposition leaders.
October
20, 2004
Falls
while giving a speech in Santa Clara, injuring his left knee and right
arm.
April
2005
Signs
an alliance with Venezela's President Hugo Chavez.
July
31, 2006
Announces
a temporary transfer of power to his brother Raul Castro after undergoing
what he called delicate intestinal surgery.
Early
Life:
Fidel
Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on a sugar plantation in Birán, near Mayarí,
in the modern-day province of Holguín – then a part of the now-defunct
Oriente province. He was the third child born to Ángel Castro y Argiz, a
Galician immigrant from the impoverished northwest of Spain who became
relatively prosperous through work in the sugar industry and successful
investing. His mother, Lina Ruz González, who was a household servant,
was also of Galician background. Angel Castro was married to another
woman, Maria Luisa Argota, until Fidel was 17, and thus Fidel as a child
had to deal both with his illegitimacy and the challenge of being raised
in various foster homes away from his father's house.
Castro has two brothers, Ramón and Raúl, and four sisters, Angelita,
Juanita, Enma, and Agustina, all of whom were born out of wedlock. He also
has two half siblings, Lidia and Pedro Emilio who were raised by Ángel
Castro's first wife.
Fidel was not baptized until he was 8, also very uncommon, bringing
embarrassment and ridicule from other children. Ángel Castro finally
dissolved his first marriage when Fidel was 15 and married Fidel’s
mother. Castro was formally recognized by his father when he was 17, when
his surname was legally changed to Castro from Ruz, his mother’s name.
Although accounts of his education differ, most sources agree that he was
an intellectually gifted student, more interested in sports than in
academics, and spent many years in private Catholic boarding schools,
finishing high school at El Colegio de Belén, a Jesuit school in Havana
in 1945. While at Belén, the 21-year-old Castro pitched on the school's
baseball team. There are persistent rumors that Castro was scouted for
various U.S. baseball teams, but there is no evidence that this ever
actually happened.
Wife
Background:
Mirta
Francisca de la Caridad Díaz-Balart y Gutiérrez (born September 30,
1928) was Fidel Castro's first wife, daughter of Rafael José Díaz-Balart
and wife América Gutiérrez. She was a fellow student at the University
of Havana, studying Philosophy, when Fidel married her. She was the
daughter of a prominent Cuban politician and mayor of the town of Banes.
They married on October 11, 1948 and divorced seven years later (while
Castro was in exile) in 1955. They had one child, a son, Fidel Ángel
"Fidelito" Castro Díaz-Balart, born on September 1, 1949. After
the divorce, Castro was granted custody of their son and Mirta remarried
Dr. Emilio Núñez Blanco, the son of a former Cuban Ambassador to the UN,
Emilio Núñez Portuondo (now deceased). A story in the October 8, 2000
edition of the Miami Herald claimed that she was then living in Spain and
that occasional visits to Cuba had been arranged by Raúl Castro, her
former brother-in-law.
Díaz-Balart reportedly returned to Havana in 2002 to live with Fidelito
and his family.
Mirta Díaz-Balart is the aunt of current Republican and anti-Castro U.S.
Congressmen Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart and sister of the
painter Waldo Diaz-Balart and the late Rafael Diaz-Balart. She has two
daughters by her second husband, Mirta and América Silvia Núñez Díaz-Balart,
both residing in Spain with their families. She has numerous
grandchildren.
Father
Background:
Ángel
María Bautista Castro y Argiz was the father of Cuban leaders Fidel and
Raúl Castro.
He was the son of Manuel de Castro y Núñez (Lugo Province, Láncara, c.
1853 – Lugo Province, Láncara, June 12, 1903) and wife (m. Lugo
Province, Láncara, August 16, 1873) Antonia Argiz y Fernández (Lugo
Province, Láncara, 1857 – Lugo Province, Láncara, November 16, 1887).
Ángel Castro was born in Láncara, Galicia in a small fieldstone house
typical of the poor Galician campesinos of that time.[1] When he was
sixteen or seventeen, he was recruited into the Spanish military, and came
to Cuba during the second War of Independence. He was stationed in the
tract of land between Júcaro and Morón[2] Juanita Castro, Ángel's
daughter, has contradicted this claim to assert that their father was
merely an economic migrant to Cuba.
Mother
Background:
Lina
Ruz González, born in Las Catalinas on September 23, 1903 and daughter of
Francisco Ruz Vázquez and wife Dominga González Ramos, whom he later
married on April 26, 1943
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