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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:
Gaspar Corte Real
Great
Portuguese Explorer:
Gaspar
Corte Real
Main
Life Accomplishments:
King
Manuel I of Portugal sent Gaspar to discover lands and search for a
Northwest Passage to Asia. He reached Greenland, believing it to be east
Asia, but chose not to land. He set out on a second voyage to Greenland in
1501, with his brother Miguel Corte-Real and three caravels. Encountering
frozen sea, they changed course to the south and reached land, believed to
be Labrador and Newfoundland. There they captured about sixty native men,
who would later be sold as slaves. Gaspar then sent his brother and two
ships back to Portugal before continuing southwards.
Basics:
Born:
1450 born in Angra do Heroismo, on the Island of Terceira in the Azores
Died:
1501 (aged 51)
Nationality:
Portuguese
Religion:
Fields: Exploration
Main Accomplishments: He is famous for Exploring Greenland and
the coast of Newfoundland
Chronology
of Life Events:
1450
Gaspar
Corte Real was born in Angra do Heroismo, on the Island of Terceira in the
Azores
1480
Gaspar
Corte Real moved from Lisbon to the Azores to administer lands which had
been given to him by his father
1491
The
Duke of Beja became King Manuel I of Portugal
May
12 1500
Gaspar
Corte Real received a charter from King Manuel to discover and claim
jurisdiction over lands in the New World. The Corte Real family were
familiar with the Atlantic routes due to their land in the Azores
1500
Gaspar
Corte Real embarked from Lisbon with one ship
1500
The
Gaspar Corte Real expedition reached a cold, snow-covered land in the
northwestern Atlantic
1501
Gaspar
made his second voyage with three ships and found a land full of tall,
green trees. He named the land "Terra Verde" meaning Greenland
1501
The
three ships separated and Gaspar was seen heading south
1501
Gaspar
Corte Real and his ship and crew disappeared
May
10 1502
Miguel
Corte Real left Lisbon to search for his brother
1503
Vasco
Anes Corte Real the third brother, was refused permission by King Manuel
to continue the search
Early
Life:
He
was an explorer. Little is known of the early years of Corte Real's life,
except what has been deduced by historians. According to Henry Harrisse
(1892) Gaspar Corte Real was born about the year 1450. He was the youngest
of three sons of Joad Vaz Corte Real (who himself may have visited
Newfoundland before John Cabot).
Father
Background:
João
Vaz Corte-Real was a Portuguese explorer in the 15th century. In 1474, he
was granted lands on Terceira Island on the Azores because he had
discovered Terra Nova do Bacalhau (literally, New Land of the Codfish);
there is considerable speculation that this unidentified isle was most
likely Newfoundland. If this is true, Corte-Real would have come to
America about twenty years before Columbus. The plausibility of such a
voyage is not questioned, but the lack of evidence condemns it to remain
conjecture. Off the north-east tip of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula,
however, there is a Baccalao Island.
Corte-Real
was the father of Miguel and Gaspar Corte-Real, who accompanied him on his
trip. Various fragmentary evidence suggests the expedition was a joint
venture between the kings of Portugal and Denmark, and that Corte-Real was
accompanied by the German sailors Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst, and
even the possibly-mythical John of Kolno.
Corte-Real
had made two explorations in the Northwest Atlantic. On the first voyage,
according to some historians, he reached Terra Verde (Green Land) (later
known as Terra Nova, English: Newfoundland) some time before 1472.[1] It
was during the second voyage with his sons that he found the Island of
Bacalhau. For his discovery, he was granted the title of
capitão-donatário of Angra do Heroísmo (then just called Angra) in
1474, and in 1483 he took the same position in the Capitania of São Jorge
Island.
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