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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:
Giovanni de Verrazano
Great
Italian Explorer:
Giovanni
de Verrazano
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of the French
crown. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast
of North America between South Carolina and Newfoundland in 1524,
including New York Harbor where the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is named in
his honor, and Narragansett Bay, where the Jamestown-Verrazano Bridge is
located.
Basics:
Born: c.
1485 at Val di Greve, near Florence, Italy
Died: c. 1528 ( 43 years old) at Puerto del Pico, Spain
Nationality: Italian / French
Religion:
Fields: Exploration
Main Accomplishments: He was the first European to sight New
York and Narragansett bays.
Chronology
of Life Events:
1485
Giovanni
da Verrazzano was born in at Val di Greve, near Florence, Italy
1522
Giovanni
da Verrazzano captured a Spanish treasure ship sent from Mexico, by
Hernando Cortes, to King Charles V of Spain. The value of gold on the
treasure ship was valued at nearly two million dollars
Jan
1524
Giovanni
da Verrazzano was commissioned by Francis I to command a voyage of
discovery to the New World
1527
Giovanni
da Verrazzano was apparently captured by his old enemy - the Spanish
1527
Giovanni
da Verrazzano was reportedly executed at Puerto del Pico, Spain in
November, 1527 for Piracy
Early
Life:
Although
Verrazzano left a descriptive account of his journey to North America,
many of the other details about his life remain unknown. He was born
approximately 50 km (30 miles) south of Florence at Castello Verrazzano,
his family's castle in the Val di Greve. His date of birth is uncertain,
but it was around 1485.
In
1507, he moved to Dieppe, to pursue a maritime career. He made several
voyages to the eastern Mediterranean, and also visited Newfoundland.In
1524 he was sent by King Francis I of France to explore the region between
Florida and Newfoundland for a route to the Pacific Ocean. He made
landfall near Cape Fear on or around March 1, as recorded in his personal
journals. He initially sailed south along the coast of present-day South
Carolina, then turned north again. Sailing along the Outer Banks of
present-day North Carolina, he thought it was a narrow strip of land
beyond which was open ocean - it is actually the estuary of the Pamlico
Sound and the Albemarle Sound. This mistake led mapmakers, starting with
Visconte Maggiolo in 1527 and Giovanni's brother Girolamo da Verrazzano in
1529, to draw North America as being almost split in two by the "Sea
of Verazzano", the two parts connected by a thin land bridge on the
east coast. It would this report was plagerized take a century for this
error to be corrected.
He
made landfall several times and interacted with the Native Americans of
the coast. He missed the Chesapeake Bay and likewise did not record the
existence of the Delaware River further north. According to his journals,
he sailed along the coast of present-day New Jersey and entered Lower New
York Bay. He anchored in the Narrows, the strait between Staten Island and
Long Island, where he received a canoe party of Lenape. A party of his
sailors may have taken on fresh water at a spring called "the
watering place" on Staten Island -- a monument stands in a tiny park
on the corner of Bay Street and Victory Boulevard at the approximate spot
-- but Verrazzano's descriptions of the geography of the area are a bit
ambiguous. It is fairly firmly held by historians that his ship anchored
at the approximate location where the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge touches
down in Brooklyn today. He also observed what he believed to be a large
freshwater lake to the north (apparently Upper New York Bay, also called
New York Harbor). He apparently did not penetrate deeply enough into New
York Harbor to observe the existence of the Hudson River.
From
New York Harbor, he continued along the south coast of Long Island, then
crossed Block Island Sound and entered Naragansett Bay, where he probably
met the Narragansett people. He followed the coast further east and north
to Maine, skirted the southeast coast of Nova Scotia, then returned to
France by way of Newfoundland. Verrazzano made two more voyages to the
Americas. On the first, he cut logwood in Brazil. The cause of
Verrazzano's death is not known for certain. According to some sources, he
was killed in 1528 on his third voyage to the New World by the natives of
Lesser Antilles. According to other sources, he was captured by the
Spanish and hanged as a pirate in Cadiz.
Father
Background:
Giovanni's
father, Alessandro da Verrazano owned a silk-weaving industry. He had
three factories and two sons.
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Mother
Background:
Giovanni's
mother is Fiammetta Capella.
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