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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:
Lech Walesa

Great
Polish Leader & Activist:
Lech
Walesa
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Is
a Polish politician and a former trade union and human rights activist. He
co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first
independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as
President of Poland from 1990 to 1995
Basics:
Born: September
29, 1943, Popowo, Poland
Died:
Nationality: Polish
Religion: Roman Catholic
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments:
Chronology
of Life Events:
1943
Born
in Popow, Poland
1969
Married
Danuta Golos
1980
Walesa
leads Gdansk Shipyard strike
1980
Solidarity
founded
1983
Wins
Nobel Peace Prize
1990
Elected
first non-communist President of Poland
1995
Walesa
loses Presidential Election (loses again in 2000)
2000
to Present
Continues
lecture tours
Early
Life:
Wałęsa
was born in Popowo, Poland, to a carpenter and his wife. He attended
primary and vocational school, before entering Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk
(Stocznia Gdańska im. Lenina, now Stocznia Gdańska) as an
electrical technician in 1970. In 1969 he married Danuta Gołoś,
and the couple now have eight children. His son Jarosław Wałęsa
is a member of Poland's Sejm (lower house of the Polish parliament). Lech
Wałęsa is a devout Roman Catholic, and has said that his faith
always helped him during Solidarity's difficult moments.
Wife
Background:
Danuta
Wałęsa, maiden name Mirosława Danuta Gołoś (born
1950), is the wife of the former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa.
In 1983 she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway on behalf of
her husband, who was imprisoned at the time. They have been married since
September 8, 1969 and have eight children
Father
Background:
Lech
Walesa's father, Boleslaw, was conscripted to dig ditches and died in 1946
from the exposure and beatings he suffered.
Mother
Background:
His
mother, Feliksa, seemed to have the most effect on Walesa. The parish
priest remembers her as "the wisest woman in the parish."

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