|
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.
+632 892 6703
 +632 892 6704
leaders@chalre.com
www.chalre.com
|
|
SuperAttainer:
Horatio Nelson
Britain's
Greatest Naval Hero:
Horatio
Nelson
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was an English admiral famous for his participation in the Napoleonic
Wars, most notably in the Battle of Trafalgar, where he lost his life.[1]
It was as a result of these wars that he became one of the greatest naval
heroes in the history of the United Kingdom, eclipsing Admiral Robert
Blake in fame.
Basics:
Born: 29
September 1758 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk
Died: 21 October 1805 (47 years old) at Cape Trafalgar, Spain
Nationality: British
Religion:
Fields: Politics/Military
Main Accomplishments: He was directly responsible for three
major naval victories, and played an important role in winning a fourth.
Chronology
of Life Events:
Sep
29 1758
Birth
of Horatio Nelson
1767
His
mother died
1770
Nelson
was briefly educated at Paston Grammar School, North Walsham, and Norwich
School
Jan
1 1771
His
naval career began
1777
Nelson
had risen to the rank of lieutenant and was assigned to the West Indies
1779
He
was made post
1780
He
was involved in an action against the Spanish fortress of San Juan in
Nicaragua
1783
Nelson
led a 100 man force in an unsuccessful attempt to dislodge a French force
from the Turks Islands.
1784
He
was given command of the frigate Boreas
1787
Nelson
and Fanny were married
1793
He
was given command of the 64-gun Agamemnon
1794
He
was wounded in the face by stones and debris
Feb
14 1797
He
was largely responsible for the British victory at the Battle of Cape St.
Vincent
April
1797
He
was promoted to Rear Admiral of the Blue
1798
Nelson was once again responsible for a
great victory over the French
1799
Nelson
was promoted to Rear Admiral of the Red
Jan
1 1801
Nelson
was promoted to Vice Admiral of the Blue
May
22 1801
He
was created Viscount Nelson, of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in the
County of Norfolk
Aug
18 1801
He
was created Baron Nelson, of the Nile and of Hilborough in the County of
Norfolk
1803
Nelson
joined the blockade of Toulon, France.
1804
Nelson
was promoted to Vice Admiral of the White
Oct
21 1805
Nelson
engaged in his final battle, the Battle of Trafalgar. Death of Horatio
Early
Life:
Horatio
Nelson was born on 29 September 1758 in a rectory in Burnham Thorpe,
Norfolk, the sixth of eleven children of The Reverend Edmund Nelson and
Catherine Nelson. His mother, who died when he was nine, was a grandniece
of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, the de facto first prime
minister of the British Parliament.
Nelson
was briefly educated at Paston Grammar School, North Walsham, and Norwich
School, and by the time he was twelve he had enrolled in the Royal
Navy.[3] His naval career began on 1 January 1771 when he reported to the
third-rate Raisonnable as an Ordinary Seaman and coxswain. Nelson’s
maternal uncle, Captain Maurice Suckling, commanded the vessel. Shortly
after reporting aboard, Nelson was appointed a midshipman and began
officer training. Ironically, Nelson found that he suffered from
seasickness, a chronic complaint that dogged him for the rest of his life.
Suckling
became Comptroller of the Navy in 1775 and used his position to help
Nelson's rapid advance. By 1777 Nelson had risen to the rank of lieutenant
and was assigned to the West Indies. During his service as lieutenant he
saw action on the British side in the American Revolutionary War. By the
time he was 20, in June 1779, he was made post. The 28-gun frigate
Hinchinbroke, newly captured from the French, was his first command as
post-captain.
In
1780 he was involved in an action against the Spanish fortress of San Juan
in Nicaragua. Though the expedition was ultimately a major debacle, none
of the blame was attributed to Nelson, who was praised for his efforts. He
fell seriously ill, probably contracting malaria, and returned to England
for more than a year to recover. He eventually returned to active duty and
was assigned to Albemarle, in which he continued his efforts against the
American rebels until the official end of the war in 1783.
Wife
Background:
Nelson
met Frances (Fanny) Nisbet, a widow native to Nevis. Nelson and Fanny were
married on 11 March 1787 at the end of his tour of duty in the Caribbean.
Father
Background:
Edmund
Nelson, father of the famous English naval general, Horatio Nelson was a
country parson who lived in Burnham Thrope in Norfolk. That is where he
raised Horatio along with his wife Catherine.
Mother
Background:
On moving to
Beccles on her father's death, Catherine Suckling met and married the
former curate of Beccles, the Reverend Edmund Nelson. They moved to
Hilborough, Norfolk where Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe,
Norfolk, on 29 September 1758.She was grand niece to Sir Robert Walpole
and sister to Captain Maurice Suckling who was responsible for the early
training of Horatio and aunt to Captain Maurice William Suckling.Catherine
Suckling died in 1767, when Nelson was nine years old.
Executive Search
& Management Consulting:
Chalre
Associates provides its Executive Search & Management
Consulting services throughout the emerging countries of the Asia Pacific
region with specific focus on Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam
and Singapore.
Regional
Managers use us to help bridge the gap between local environments and
the world-class requirements of multinational corporations.
|
