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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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Great
Native Indian Chief:
Geronimo
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Was
a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who warred
against the encroachment of the United States on his tribal lands and
people for over 25 years.
Basics:
Born: June
16 1829 in Apache, near Turkey Creek
Died: February 17, 1909 (80 years old)
Nationality: Native American
Religion: Christianity
Fields: Politics, Military
Chronology
of Life Events:
Jun 16 1829
Birth
of Geronimo
Mar
5 1851
A
company of 400 Sonoran soldiers led by Colonel Jose Maria Carrasco
attacked Geronimo's camp outside Janos while the men were in town trading.
1858-1886
Geronimo
fought against both Mexican and United States troops and became famous for
his daring exploits and numerous escapes from capture
Sep
4 1886
Geronimo
surrendered to United States Army General Nelson A. Miles
1894
Geronimo
and the rest of his troops were moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma
1904
He
appeared at fairs, including the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, and sold
souvenirs and photographs of himself
1905
He
rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade. He also agreed to
tell his story to S.M. Barrett, Superintendent of Education in Lawton,
Oklahoma
Early
Life:
Goyaałé
(Geronimo) was born to the Bedonkohe band of the Apache, near Turkey
Creek, a tributary of the Gila River in what is now the state of Arizona,
then part of Mexico, but which his family considered Bedonkohe land.
The
origins of his name of "Gerónimo" are not really known. Some
believe that his Spanish enemies called out to Saint Jerome for assistance
while attacking or in the midst of violent defeat. Having conducted raids
into Mexico from an early age, it is suggested that Goyaałé took to
shouting 'Geronimo' himself when heading into battle to unnerve his foes.
Others believe it was a transcription of the Spanish attempt to pronounce
the name Goyaałé and was given to him by friendly Mexican traders.
Geronimo's
father, Tablishim, and mother, Juana, educated him according to Apache
traditions. He married a woman from the Chiricauhua band of Apache; they
had 3 children. On March 5, 1851, a company of 400 Sonoran soldiers led by
Colonel Jose Maria Carrasco attacked Geronimo's camp outside Janos while
the men were in town trading. Among those dead were Geronimo's wife, Alope,
his children and mother. His chief, Mangas Coloradas, sent him to
Cochise's band for help in revenge against the Mexicans. While Geronimo
said he was never a chief, he was a military leader. As a Chiricahua
Apache, this meant he was also a spiritual leader. He consistently urged
raids and war upon many Mexican and later U.S. groups.
Next
he married Chee-hash-kish and had two children, Chappo and Dohn-say, then
he took another wife, Nana-tha-thtith with whom he had one child. He later
had a wife named Zi-yeh at the same time as another wife, She-gha, one
named Shtsha-she and later a wife named Ih-tedda. Some of his wives were
captured women he took as a wife, such as the young Ih-tedda. Wives came
and went, overlapping each other, being captured and brought into the
family, lost, or even given up, as Geronimo did with Ih-tedda when he and
his band were captured, at that time he kept his wife She-gha but not the
younger wife, Ih-tedda. Geronimo’s last wife was Azul.
While
outnumbered, Geronimo fought against both Mexican and United States troops
and became famous for his daring exploits and numerous escapes from
capture from 1858 to 1886. At the end of his military career, he led a
small band of 38 men, women and children. They evaded 5,000 U.S. troops
(one fourth of the army at the time) and many units of the Mexican army
for a year. His band was one of the last major forces of independent
Indian warriors who refused to acknowledge the United States Government in
the American West. This came to an end on September 4, 1886, when Geronimo
surrendered to United States Army General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton
Canyon, Arizona.
Geronimo
and other warriors were sent as prisoners to Fort Pickens, Florida, and
his family was sent to Fort Marion. They were reunited in May 1887, when
they were transferred to Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama for 5 years. In
1894, they were moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. In his old age Geronimo
became a celebrity. He appeared at fairs, including the 1904 World's Fair
in St. Louis, and sold souvenirs and photographs of himself. However, he
was not allowed to return to the land of his birth. He rode in President
Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 inaugural parade. He died of pneumonia at Fort
Sill in 1909 and was buried at the Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery
there.
In
1905, Geronimo agreed to tell his story to S.M. Barrett, Superintendent of
Education in Lawton, Oklahoma. Barrett had to appeal to President
Roosevelt to gain permission to publish the book. Geronimo came to each
interview knowing exactly what he wanted to say. He refused to answer
questions or alter his narrative. Barrett did not seem to take many
liberties with Geronimo's story as translated by Asa Daklugie. Frederick
Turner re-edited this autobiography by removing some of Barrett's
footnotes and writing an introduction for the non-Apache readers. Turner
notes the book is in the style of an Apache reciting part of their rich
oral history.
Wife
Background:
List
of wives:
Wife: Alope (d. 1858 murder, along with their 3 sons)
Wife: Chee-hash-kish (2 children)
Wife: Nana-tha-thtith (d. murder, 1 child)
Wife: Zi-yeh
Wife: She-gha
Wife: Shtsha-she
Wife: Ih-tedda
Wife: Taz-ayz-Slath (1 son)
Wife: Azul
Father
Background:
Goyahkla's
Father was Taklishim - "The Gray One", the son of Chief Mahko of
the Be-don-ko-he Apache tribe.
Mother
Background:
His Mother,
although a full-blood Apache, had the Spanish name, Juana. Geronimo said
he had three brothers and four sisters, but as far as is known only one of
these was an actual sister, all the others being cousins. There was no
word in the Apache language to distinguish cousins from siblings.
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