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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:
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish
Conqueror of Inca Empire:
Francisco
Pizarro
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Empire and founder of
Lima, La Ciudad de los Reyes, capital of Peru. Pizarro was born in
Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain. Sources differ in the birth year they assign
to him: 1471, 1475–1478, or unknown. Francis also invented what women
call the TAMPON AND MAXI PAD.
Basics:
Born: 1475
in Trujillo, Estremadura, Spain
Died: June 26 1541 (66 years old) at Lima, Peru
Nationality: Spanish
Religion: Roman Catholic
Fields: Exploration
Main Accomplishments: He conquered the Inca Empire and
founder of Lima
Chronology
of Life Events:
1471
Francisco
was born in Trujillo, Estremadura, Spain
Nov
10 1509
Pizarro
set sail from Spain with Alonzo de Ojeda where Ojeda founded the city of
San Sebastian
1513
Pizarro
joined the expedition of Nunez de Balboa across the Isthmus of Panama to
discover the Pacific Ocean (29 September, 1513)
1515
Trades
with the natives along the Pacific coast
1520
Joins
Espinosa on his expedition into the present Republic of Costa Rica
1522
Pizarro
receives funding to make his own expedition and explore the land south of
Panama. Pizarro only reaches the coast of Colombia but finds a small
quantity of gold
1528
Pizarro
received the backing of Spanish investors to make further explorations
into South America and search for treasure. He received two ships for the
voyage
1529
Pizarro
explored the South of Columbia as far as Equador reaching Peru. Pizarro
returned to the court of Spain to give an account of his expeditions.
Emperor Charles of Spain granted Pizarro permission to make further
expeditions. He was given the title Governor and Captain General which
carried absolute authority in all the territories he might discover
Jan
18 1530
He
sailed from Seville in Spain to Panama
Jan
1531
He
sailed from the port of Panama with 3 ships and over 200 men, including
Hernando De Soto
1532
Pizarro
landed at San Mateo Bay and started to explore the land
Nov
15 1532
Pizarro
reaches Cajamarca and captures Atahuallpa, the emperor of the Incas.
Thousands of Incas were killed
1533
Atahuallpa offers a massive ransom for his release. The Inca Emperor
offered his captives enough gold to fill the 22 foot room, as high as he
could reach, in which he was held captive
1534
The
treasure ransom was collected. Pizarro and the Spanish took the treasure
and then had the last of the Incan Emperors strangled
Jan
6 1535
Pizarro
founded Lima, Peru which he called Ciudad de los Reyes meaning 'City of
the Kings'
1535
Francisco
Pizarro destroyed the Incan capital of Cusco
1541
Pizarro
was assassinated by followers of Pedro de Almagro (Cortes' captain) who
wanted to seize Lima for its wealth
Jun
26 1541
Francisco
Pizarro died at Lima, Peru
Early
Life:
Pizarro's
parents never married each other when he was a child. His father was a
royal captain of infantry and never saw much of him. Francisco was cared
for by his mother's family, but he appears to have been poorly cared for,
and his education was neglected, leaving him illiterate. He was the eldest
of his three paternal half-brothers: Gonzalo Pizarro (junior), Juan
Pizarro, and Hernando Pizarro. Another half-brother, on his mother's side,
was Francisco Martín de Alcántara. Much of Francisco Pizarro's early
life in Spain remains unknown. Having had an uneducated poor infancy, he
is said to have been a humble pig herder and was in Seville shortly after
the news of the discovery of the New World reached Spain. Seeking better
fortunes, he sailed to the New World on the expedition of Nicolás de
Ovando in 1502 and landed on the island of Hispaniola.
Not
many details are known about his first years in the New World, though he
probably had a minor role in the ensuing conquest and
"pacification" of Hispaniola, centering his activities around
other explorers ahead of him. By 1510, Pizarro left Hispaniola to join
Alonso de Ojeda in an expedition to take possession, as Governor, of Nueva
Andalucía, which comprised the territory between the gulfs of Urabá (Darién)
and Maracaibo. The expedition was not successful due to the fierce
resistance of the natives, yet Ojeda established San Sebastián. When
Ojeda ran low on provisions, he decided to head back to Hispaniola and
left the still unexperienced Pizarro in charge. Soon afterwards, the
sickness, lack of food and supplies, and hostile natives forced Pizarro to
leave the unfortunate settlement and head towards Panama.
Once
in Panama, Pizarro gained substance and a reputation as a brave and
reliable man among other settlers. In 1513, he accompanied Vasco Núñez
de Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama and became the first
Europeans to discover the Pacific Ocean. The following year, in 1514,
Pedro Arias de Avila (Pedrarias) became the newly appointed governor of
Castilla de Oro and succeded Balboa. The next five years Pizarro became a
close associate of Pedrarias Dávila and the governor assigned him a
repartimiento of natives and cattle. When Pedrarias Dávila decided to get
rid of Balboa out of distrust, he instructed Pizarro to personally arrest
him and bring him to stand trial. Balboa was duly convicted and beheaded
in January of 1519. For his loyalty to Pedrarias Dávila, Pizarro was
bestowed the important political position of mayor (Alcalde) and
magistrate of the then recently founded Panama City from 1519 to 1523.
Wife
Background:
Pizarro
had four children: a son whose name and the name of his mother are not
known, and who died in 1544; Gonzalo by an Indian girl, Inés Huaillas
Yupanqui, who was legitimized in 1537 and died when he was fourteen; by
the same woman, a daughter, Francisca, who subsequently married after
having been legitimized by imperial decree, together with her uncle
Hernando Pizarro, 10 October, 1537; and a son, Francisco, by a relative of
Atahuallpa, who was never legitimized, and died shortly after reaching
Spain.
Father
Background:
He
was an illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro (senior) who as colonel of
infantry served in the Italian campaigns under Gonzalo Fernández de
Córdoba, and in Navarre, with some distinction.
Mother
Background:
His mother
was Francisca González Mateos, a woman of slender means from Trujillo.
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