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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:
Gustavus Adolphus
Great
Swedish King:
Gustavus
Adolphus
Main
Life Accomplishments:
During
his reign, Gustav Adolf founded the city of Gothenburg as well as a number
of smaller cities. He is also the founder of the University of Tartu in
Tartu, Estonia, which then belonged to the Kingdom of Sweden. At this
time, the three largest cities in the Swedish kingdom were Riga (the
capital of Latvia), Stockholm and Tallinn (capital of Estonia).
Basics:
Born
December 9, 1594 in Stockholm, Sweden:
Died: November 6, 1632 ( 38 years old)
Nationality: Swedish
Religion:
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: He is the only Swedish king to be styled
"the Great" and he was one of the major participants in the
Thirty Years' War.
Chronology
of Life Events:
Dec
9 1594
Birth
of Gustavus Adolphus II
Jul
1626
Gustav
Adolf and his army disembark at Pillau, Prussia during the Polish-Sweden
War of 1625-1629
Aug
18 1627
The
King is seriously wounded by a Polish soldier in the battle of Tczew.
May
1630
Gustav
Adolf lands with his army in Pomerania. On July 6 he lands in Germany.
Sep
1631
At
the Battle of Breitenfeld, Gustav Adolf decisively defeats the Catholic
forces led by Tilly, even after the allied Protestant Saxon army had been
routed and fled with the baggage train.
Apr
1632
At
the Battle of Lech, Gustav Adolf defeats Tilly once more, and in the
battle Tilly sustains a fatal wound
May
1632
Munich
yields to the Swedish army.
Sep
1632
Gustav
Adolf attacks the stronghold of Alte Veste, which is under the command of
Wallenstein, but is repulsed, marking the first defeat in the Thirty
Years' War of the previously invincible Swedes. This leads to defection of
some mercenary elements in the Protestant army.
Nov
1632
At
the Battle of Lützen, Gustav Adolf is killed but the Swedes win the day,
thanks to Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, who assumed command, and defeat
Wallenstein. The Swedish war effort was kept up by generals Gustav Horn,
Johan Banér, Lennart Torstenson and chancellor Axel Oxenstierna until the
Peace of Westphalia.
Early
Life:
Gustavus
Adolphus was born in Stockholm as the oldest son of King Charles IX of
Sweden of the Vasa dynasty and his second wife, Christina of Holstein-Gottorp.
He inherited the throne upon his father's death at the age of seventeen in
1611, as well as an ongoing succession of dynastic disputes that
periodically broke out in warfare with his Polish cousin, Sigismund III of
Poland, who in the preliminary religious strife before the Thirty Years'
War, was forced to let go of the throne of Sweden to Gustav's father.
Sigismund III wanted to regain the throne of Sweden and tried to force
Gustav Adolph to renounce the title.
In a round of this dynastic dispute, he invaded Livonia when he was 31,
beginning the Polish-Swedish War (1625–1629). He intervened on behalf of
the Lutherans in Prussia, who opened the gates to their cities. His reign
became famous from his actions a few years later when in June 1630 he
landed in Germany, continuing Sweden's involvement in the ongoing Thirty
Years' War. Gustavus intervened on the anti-Imperial side, which at the
time was losing to the Holy Roman Empire and its Catholic allies; the
Swedish forces would quickly reverse that situation.
He was married to Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, the daughter of John
Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and chose the Prussian city of Elbing
as the base for his operations in Germany. He died in the Battle of
Lützen in 1632. His early death was a great loss to the Lutheran side, it
prolonged the war for many years. It resulted in large parts of Germany
and other countries, who for a large part had become Lutheran in faith,to
be forced into Catholicism (via Counter-Reformation). His involvement in
the Thirty Years' War gave rise to the old prophecy that he was the
incarnation of "the Lion of the North", or as it is called in
German "Der Löwe von Mitternacht" (Literally: "The Lion
from Midnight").
Wife
Background:
She
was the daughter of Elector Johann Sigismund of Brandenburg and Anna,
Duchess of Prussia, daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia.
In
the year 1620 Maria Eleonora married, with her mother's consent but
against her brother's will, the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus. She bore a
daughter, Christina, in 1626.
She
was described as the most beautiful queen in Europe, and, as her daughter
later said, had "all the virtues and vices" associated with her
gender.
The
romantic circumstances of her marriage, in which she and her husband had
to elope to escape her brother's care, was said to have fostered in her a
genuine love for her husband, a very unusual condition for a queen of her
time. She displayed her love very openly and inappropriately according to
the etiquette of the time, which made people consider her to be emotional
and hysterical and very "feminine", which meant she was not
considered as very intelligent. Her husband wrote specifically that, if he
should die when his heir was still a minor, his widow was not to be
allowed any political influence whatsoever. He continued to be in love
with Ebba Brahe their entire marriage, but it does not appear that Maria
Eleonora noticed this.
When
her husband died in 1632, Queen Eleonora displayed a grief that made
people consider her hysterical tendencies had finally broke out in
insanity; she refused to allow her husband to be buried and hugged and
touched and kissed the dead body, even after it had began to rot, in an
intimate way that made witnesses feel sick. After the king was finally
buried, she was discovered to have broken into the burial place to try to
get access to the body.
In
1636, she had the custody of her daughter Queen Christina of Sweden taken
from her, and after she fled to Denmark she was accused of attempted
treachery, stripped of her allowance and officially banned from Sweden;
she returned to Brandenburg in 1643.
She
eventually returned to Sweden in 1648, but the relationship between her
and her daughter was never very good.
Father
Background:
Was
King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son of
Gustav Vasa and Margareta Leijonhufvud. By his father's will he got, by
way of appanage, the Duchy of Södermanland, which included the provinces
of Närke and Värmland; but he did not come into actual possession of
them till after the fall of Eric XIV of Sweden in 1569.
Mother
Background:
Queen
Christina was a dominating and strong willed woman. Her marriage was
considered happy, as she and her husband were very similar in personalit.
She often accompanied him on his journeys, among them to Estonia and
Finland in 1600-1601. He was most certainly not faitful to her. Although
she did not dominate her husband, who was just as dominating as she, and
did not have any political influence on him, she was highly regarded,
respected and feared. She did however, act as regent during her husbands
absence in 1605, and she was also known to have prevented her younger son
from becoming Russian Czar in 1610-1612 by keeping him at home, and as
widow, she also acted as regent for her younger son, Carl Philip, over
Södermanland, until he died, in 1611-1622. As a dowager queen, she is
known for preventing her son from marrying his mistress, Ebba Brahe.
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