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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:
Frederick the Great
First
Modern Military Celebrity:
Frederick
the Great
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Under
his rule Prussia was transformed into a modernized state; he also built
the beautiful palace of Sanssouci ("without cares"). He
skillfully employed the limited Prussian resources to make his kingdom the
most powerful German state during the Seven Year War (1756-63). In 1772 he
participated in the first partition of Poland, and by the time he died he
had doubled the area of his country.
Basics:
Born: January
24, 1712 in Berlin, Prussia
Died: August 17, 1786 ( 74 years old) at Potsdam, Prussia
Nationality: Prussian
Religion: Atheist
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: Legend has it that he was the first head
of state in Europe to introduce potatoes as a main crop, hence avoiding an
imminent farming.
Chronology
of Life Events:
Jan
24 1712
Birth
of Frederick the Great
1730
Queen
Sophia Dorothea attempted to orchestrate a dual marriage of Frederick and
his sister Wilhelmina with Amelia
1728
Frederick
had formed an attachment to the king's 17-year old page, Peter Christopher
Keith
1730
Frederick
plotted to flee to England with Hans Hermann von Katte and other junior
army officers
Nov
12, 1730
Frederick
was granted a royal pardon and released from his cell
Nov
20 1730
He
was forced to remain in Küstrin and began rigorous schooling in
statecraft and administration for the War and Estates Departments
Nov
20 1731
Frederick
was allowed to visit Berlin on the occasion of his sister Wilhelmina's
marriage to Margrave Frederick of Bayreuth
Feb
26 1732
Frederick
returned to Berlin after finally being released from his tutelage at
Küstrin
1739
Frederick
finished his Anti-Machiavel — an idealistic writing in which he opposes
Machiavelli.
1740
Frederick
ascended the throne as "King in Prussia"
Aug
29 1756
His
well-prepared army crossed the frontier and preemptively invaded Saxony,
thus beginning the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).
1778
Frederick
also involved Prussia in the low-scale War of the Bavarian Succession
Aug
17 1786
Frederick
died in an armchair in his study in the palace of Sanssouci
Early
Life:
Frederick
was born in Berlin, the son of King Frederick William I of Prussia and
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. The so-called "Soldier-King",
Frederick William had developed a formidable army and efficient civil
service, but is otherwise recorded in a negative light. He was known to
strike men in the face with his cane and kick women in the street,
justifying his outbursts as religious righteousness. In contrast, Sophia
was well-mannered and well-educated. Her father, George, Elector of
Hanover, was the heir of Queen Anne of Great Britain. George succeeded as
King George I of Great Britain in 1714.
At
the time of Frederick's birth, the Houses of Brandenburg and Hanover were
enjoying great prosperity; the birth of Frederick was welcomed by his
grandfather with more than usual pleasure, as two of his grandsons had
already died at an early age. Frederick William wished his sons and
daughters to be educated not as royalty, but as simple folk. He had been
educated by a Frenchwoman, Madame de Montbail, who later became Madame de
Rocoulle, and he wished that she should educate his children. Frederick
was brought up by Huguenot governesses and tutors and learned French and
German simultaneously.
Although
Frederick William was raised a devout Calvinist, he feared he was not of
the elect. To avoid the possibility of Frederick having the same fears,
the king ordered that his heir not be taught of predestination. Although
he was largely irreligious, Frederick adopted this tenet of Calvinism,
despite the king's efforts. It is unknown if the crown prince did this to
spite his father or out of genuine religious belief.
Interested
primarily in the arts during his youth, Frederick unsuccessfully attempted
to flee from his authoritarian father, the "Soldier-King"
Frederick William I, after which he was forced to watch the execution of a
childhood friend. Upon ascending to the Prussian throne, he attacked
Austria and claimed Silesia during the Silesian Wars, winning military
acclaim for himself and Prussia. Near the end of his life, Frederick
united most of his disconnected realm through the First Partition of
Poland.
As
an enlightened monarch, Frederick patronized writers and philosophers such
as Voltaire and Immanuel Kant. He modernized the Prussian bureaucracy and
civil service and promoted religious toleration throughout his realm.
Frederick is buried at his favorite residence, Sanssouci in Potsdam. He
was succeeded by his nephew, Frederick William II of Prussia.
Wife
Background:
Elizabeth
Christine of Brunswick-Bevern, Queen of Prussia (November 8, 1715,
Wolfenbüttel – January 13, 1797) was the daughter of Ferdinand Albert
II, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg.
On June 12, 1733 she married Frederick II of Prussia and lived with him in
Neu-Ruppin and later in the castle at Rheinsberg.
This was an involuntary marriage, and did not result in children, as
Frederick almost completely ignored Elizabeth. Directly following his
father's death, Frederick initiated the break up between the two. Some
sources (Voltaire) lead one to believe that Frederick the Great was
homosexual. This however has never been proved and neither has the story
ever been confirmed that the king was impotent due to a venereal disease,
as was rumoured by his enemies. Nowadays it is considered more likely that
Frederick was asexual and just had no concern for dynastic obligations, as
his succession was already secured by the offspring of his younger brother
August Wilhelm and his wife Luise Amalie, Elisabeth Christine's younger
sister.
After Frederick became King in 1740, Elisabeth lived apart from him in
Niederschöenhausen Castle, north of Berlin.
Father
Background:
He
was born in Berlin to Frederick I of Prussia and Sophia Charlotte of
Hanover. His father had successfully acquired the title King for the
margraves of Brandenburg.Frederick William's contributions to the state of
Prussia primarily consisted of civil service reforms, developing the
international reputation of the Prussian military, and increasing the
overall efficiency and discipline of his military, which in turn placed
Prussia as an entity on a par with Early Modern France, the Kingdom of
Great Britain, and other politically dominant states in Europe during the
18th century.
Mother
Background:
His mother
is Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. She was the only daughter of Georg Ludwig
of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Sophia Dorothea of Celle.When her father's
territory designation changed to include Hanover, she became styled HSH
Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
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