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How
To Assess Super
Attainers
Main Ingredients for Making SuperAttainers
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:
Hernando Cortes
Famous
Spanish Conqueror:
Hernando
Cortes
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was the conquistador who became famous for leading the military expedition
that initiated the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Cortés was part of the
generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish
colonization of the Americas.
Basics:
Born: 1485
in Medellin, Extremadura, Spain
Died: December 2, 1547 (aged 62) at Castilleja de la Cuesta,
Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Religion: Roman Catholic
Fields: Exploration
Main Accomplishments: He is a Spanish Conquistador, conquered
Mexico
Chronology
of Life Events:
1485
Hernando
Cortes was born in Medellin, Extremadura, Spain
1499
Hernando
Cortes was attended the University of Salamanca
1501
He
failed at Law and left University
1502
Cortes
heard the stories about the New World and joined the expedition to the
West Indies led by Nicolas de Ovando with Diego Velazquez. The Ovando
voyage consisted of 2500 settlers and 30 ships
1460-1532
Cortes
proved to be an excellent soldier under the command of Spanish soldier
named Diego Velazquez
1511
Diego
Columbus, the new governor of Hispaniola, resolved to conquer the island
of Cuba and selected Diego Velazquez as commander of the expedition. The
expedition to Cuba consisted of four vessels with 300 men. Hernando Cortes
was chosen to accompany Velazquez on the expedition
1513
The
town of Bayamo on Cuba was established
1514
The
towns of Trinidad, Santo Espiritu, Puerto Principe, and Santiago de Cuba
were founded. Hernando Cortes settles on the island of Cuba and becomes a
rancher
May
1 1518
A
fleet under Juan de Grijalva left Santiago de Cuba explores the coast of
Mexico and sends back favorable reports to Velazquez
Feb
19 1519
Velazquez
decides to explore further and chooses Hernando Cortes to captain an
expedition to establish a colony in Mexico
Mar
1519
With
a force of 600 men, and less than 20 horses Cortez sets sail for Mexico.
1520
Hernando
Cortes and his soldiers sailed to the Yucatan Penisula and march inland to
Tenochtitlan
1521
Cortes
lands in Mexico, and suppresses the town of Tabasco. He meets a woman
called Malinche who becames his mistress, guide and interpreter
1528
Hernando
Cortes and his soldiers are forced out of Tenochtitlan
1530
Cortes
returns to Spain and was given the title "Marques del Valle de
Oaxaca."
1533
Hernando
Cortes returned to the New World and settles in Cuernavaca, Mexico
1534
Hernando
Cortes explored California for a year before returning to Mexico
1540
Hernando
Cortes returns home to Spain for the last time
1541
Spain
fears the power that Hernando Cortes has in the New World
Dec
2 1547
Cortes
is denied any government post in Mexico and his reputation is smeared by
rumours that he murdered his wife, Catalina Xuarez but he is given
permission to fight against the Moors and the Pirates of Algiers
Early
Life:
Cortés
was born in Medellín, in the province of Extremadura, in the Kingdom of
Castile in Spain on April 23, 1485. At the age of fourteen, Cortés was
sent to study at the University of Salamanca. This was Spain's great
center of learning, and while accounts vary as to the nature of Cortés'
studies, his later writings and actions suggest he studied law and
probably Latin.
After
two years, Cortés, tired of schooling, returned home to Medellín, much
to the annoyance of his parents, who had hoped to see him equipped for a
profitable legal career. However, those two years at Salamanca, plus his
long period of training and experience as a notary, first in Seville and
later in Hispaniola, would give him a close acquaintance with the legal
codes of Castile that was to stand him in good stead in justifying his
unauthorized conquest of Mexico.
At
this point in his life, Cortés was described by Gómara as restless,
haughty, and mischievous. This was probably a fair description of a
sixteen-year-old boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated
by life in his small provincial town.
By
this time, news of the exciting discoveries of Columbus in the New World
was streaming back to Spain.
Wife
Background:
His
has three wives, first, Catalina Xuarez Marcaida (d. 1522), second, Juana
Ramirez de Arellano de Zuniga (m. 1529, four children) and third,
Bernaldina de Porras.
Father
Background:
His
father, Martin Cortés de Monroy, was an infantry captain of distinguished
ancestry but slender means.
Mother
Background:
His mother
was Catalina Pizarro Altamirano. Through his mother, Hernan was second
cousin to Francisco Pizarro, who later conquered the Inca empire of
modern-day Peru (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who
joined Cortés to conquer the Aztecs).
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