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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:
James Cook
Great
British Explorer:
James
Cook
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to
the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook was the first to map
Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during
which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of
Australia and the Hawaiian Islands as well as the first recorded
circumnavigation of New Zealand.
Basics:
Born: 7
November 1728, Marton, Yorkshire, England
Died: February 14, 1779 (aged 50) Hawaii
Nationality: British
Religion:
Fields: Exploration
Main Accomplishments: Cook was the first to map Newfoundland
prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean.
Chronology
of Life Events:
27
October 1728
Birth
of James Cook at Marton, Yorkshire, England
22
October 1729
Birth
of Johann Reinhold Forster, at Dirschau (Tschew), Polish Prussia
26
November 1754
Birth
of Georg Forster (JR Forster's son) at Nassenhüben, near Danzig, Germany
1758
During
service in the Royal Navy along the Canadian coastline, James Cook learns
military surveying using the plane table
1763-1767
James
Cook surveys the cost of Newfoundland during a number of summer voyages
April
1768
Lt.
James Cook appointed to lead British expedition to the Pacific in HMB
Endeavour
August
1768
Cook's
first Pacific voyage begins HMB Endeavour departs from Plymouth - visits
Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia
3
June 1769
Observation
of the transit of Venus at Tahiti
1769-1770
Circumnavigation
of New Zealand
28
April 1770
Cook
anchors at Botany Bay, Australia
10
June 1770
HMB
Endeavour strikes the Great Barrier Reef, repaired at site of Endeavour
River, near Cooktown
13
September 1770
At
Possession Island, James Cook claims British possession of the east coast
of the Australian continent
July
1771
Cook's
first Pacific voyage ends
June
1772
Following
the withdrawal of Joseph Banks, Johann Reinhold Forster is appointed
naturalist for Cook's second Pacific voyage
July
1772
Cook's
second Pacific voyage begins. HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure depart -
travels in Antarctic Circle, New Zealand, Polynesia and Melanesia
1773
Publication
of official account of first voyage - edited by John Hawkesworth
July
1775
Second
voyage ends with arrival of HMS Resolution in England
July
1776
Cook's
third Pacific voyage begins. HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery depart from
Plymouth - search for Northwest passage in northern Pacific passage visits
New Zealand, Hawaii, Polynesia
March
1777
Publication
of George Forster's 'Voyages round the world'
May
1777
Publication
of official account of second voyage - written by James Cook, edited by
John Douglas
1778
Publication
of JR Forster's 'Observations made during a voyage round the world'
May
1777
Publication
of official account of second voyage - written by James Cook, edited by
John Douglas
14
February 1779
James
Cook killed at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii
January
1780
News
of Cook's death reaches London
October
1780
Cook's
third Pacific voyage ends HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery arrive back in
England
1782
With
the assistance of King George III, Göttingen University acquires a large
Pacific ethnographic collection from England
1784
Publication
of official account of third voyage - written by James Cook, edited by
John Douglas
10
January 1794
Death
of Georg Foster in Paris, France
9
December 1798
Death
of Johann Reinhold Forster in Halle, Germany (Prussia)
1799
Göttingen
University purchases a Pacific ethnographic collection from Johann
Reinhold Forster's estate
Early
Life:
Cook
was born in relatively humble circumstances in the village of Marton in
Yorkshire, today a suburb belonging to the town of Middlesbrough. He was
baptised in the local church of St. Cuthbert's where today his name can be
seen in the church register. Cook was one of five children of James Cook,
a Scottish farm labourer, and his locally-born wife Grace. In 1736, his
family moved to Airey Holme farm at Great Ayton, where his father's
employer, Thomas Skottowe paid for him to attend the local school (now a
museum). In 1741, after 5 year's schooling, he began work for his father,
who had by now been promoted to farm manager. When he had time off from
the farm, he'd take himself off up nearby Roseberry Topping, climbing
which gave him his first taste for adventure and exploration which was to
stay with him for life. Cook's Cottage, his parents' last home, which he
is likely to have visited, is now in Melbourne, having been moved from
England and reassembled brick by brick in 1934.
In 1745, when he was 16, Cook moved 20 miles to the fishing village of
Staithes to be apprenticed in a grocery/haberdashery business, where he
first felt the lure of the sea while gazing out of the shop window.
After 18 months, not proving suitable for shop work, his boss William
Sanderson took Cook to the nearby port town of Whitby and introduced him
to John and Henry Walker. The Walkers were prominent local ship-owners and
Quakers, and were in the coal trade. Their house is now the Captain Cook
Memorial Museum. Cook was taken on as a merchant navy apprentice in their
small fleet of vessels plying coal along the English coast. His first
assignment was aboard the collier Freelove, and he spent several years on
this and various other coasters sailing between the Tyne and London.
As part of this apprenticeship, Cook applied himself to the study of
algebra, geometry, trigonometry, navigation and astronomy, all skills he
would need one day to command his own ship.
His three-year apprenticeship completed, Cook began working on trading
ships in the Baltic Sea. He soon progressed through the merchant navy
ranks, starting with his 1752 promotion to Mate (officer in charge of
navigation) aboard the collier brig Friendship. In 1755, within a month of
being offered command of this vessel, he volunteered for service in the
Royal Navy, as Britain was re-arming for what was to become the Seven
Years' War.
Despite the need to start back at the bottom of the naval hierarchy, Cook
realised his career would advance more quickly in military service. On
June 17 he began as able seaman aboard HMS Eagle under the command of
Captain Hugh Palliser. He was very quickly promoted to Master's Mate. By
1757, within two years of joining the Royal Navy, he passed his master's
examination qualifying him to navigate and handle a ship of the King's
fleet.
Wife
Background:
In
1762, James Cook married Elizabeth Batts at Barking, just to the east of
London. Traditionally, information about Elizabeth's origins has been
limited and sketchy. She was known to be the daughter of Mary and Samuel
(many works continue to call him John or even James) Batts who ran the
Bell Alehouse at Execution Dock in Wapping. Mary, herself, was the
daughter of Charles Smith, a Bermondsey currier. Samuel Batts died in 1742
and three years later Mary married a man called John Blackburn. Apart from
these facts, little else was known.
Father
Background:
James
Cook, a Scottish farm labourer
Mother
Background:
Thornaby, a
settlement from the arrival of the Danes in 800 AD is the birthplace of
Cook's mother Grace Pace.
On October 10th 1725 she married James Cook, a day farm labourer, who had
come south from the banks of the River Tweed in Roxburghshire, Scotland,
following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. The centre of Thornaby has moved
in recent years and is now part of Stockton-on-Tees. In Stockton parish
church there is a memorial to Captain James Cook and an altarpiece made of
wood from the Resolution.
Grace and James Cook had eight children. Four died in childhood. Only the
second son James and his sisters Margaret and Christiana survived.
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