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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:
Lee Kuan Yew
Founder
of Singapore:
Lee
Kuan Yew
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
has remained one of the most influential politicians in Singapore. Under
the administration of Singapore's second prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, he
served as Senior Minister. He currently holds the specially created post
of Minister Mentor under his son Lee Hsien Loong, who became the nation's
third prime minister and second from the same family on August 12, 2004.
He is also known informally as "Harry" to his close friends and
family and thus his name is sometimes cited as Harry Lee Kuan Yew,
although this first name is never used in official settings.
Basics:
Born:
16 September 1923 in 92 Kampong Java Road, Singapore
Nationality: Singaporean
Religion:
Fields: Military, Politics
Main Accomplishments: The first prime minister of modern
Singapore.
Chronology
of Life Events:
Sep
16, 1923
Birth
of Lee Kuan Yew
1949
He returned to Singapore to work as a lawyer in Laylcock and Ong
1951
Lee’s
first experience with politics in Singapore
Nov
21, 1954
Lee,
together with a group of fellow English-educated middle-class men formed
the socialist People's Action Party
1955
Lee
contested and comprehensively won the Tanjong Pagar seat
1961
Lee
began to campaign for a merger with Malaysia to end British colonial rule.
Aug
7, 1965
Lee
Kuan Yew signed a separation agreement which discussed Singapore's
post-separation relations with Malaysia in order to continue co-operation
in areas such as trade and mutual defence.
May
25, 1973
Lee
made his first visit to Indonesia
1979
Lee
officially launched the first Speak Mandarin Campaign.
1983
Lee
sparked the 'Great Marriage Debate' when he encouraged Singapore men to
choose women with high education as wives.
Nov
28, 1990
Lee
and Mahathir reached a major agreement in Kuala Lumpur to build the
Linggui dam on the Johor River.
Nov
1992
Lee
stepped down as Prime Minister
Jun
2005
Lee subsequently stepped down as the Secretary-General of the PAP
Lee published a book, Keeping My Mandarin Alive
Jun
12, 2005
Lee stressed the need to have a continuous renewal of talent in the
country's leadership, in an interview
Early
Life:
As
a child Lee was strongly influenced by British culture, due in part to his
grandfather, Lee Hoon Leong, who had given his sons an English education.
His grandfather gave him the name "Harry" in addition to his
Chinese name (given by his father) Kuan Yew.
Lee was educated at Telok Kurau Primary School, Raffles Institution, and
Raffles College. His university education was delayed by World War II and
the 1942–45 Japanese occupation of Singapore. During the occupation, he
operated a successful black market business selling a tapioca-based glue
called Stikfas. Having taken Chinese and Japanese lessons since 1942, he
was able to work as a transcriber of Allied wire reports for the Japanese,
as well as being the English-language editor on the Japanese Hodobu (???
— an information or propaganda department) from 1943 to 1944.
After the war, he studied law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in the
United Kingdom, of which he was subsequently made an honorary fellow,
(graduating with Double Starred First Class honours), and briefly attended
the London School of Economics. He returned to Singapore in 1949 to work
as a lawyer in Laycock and Ong, the legal practice of John Laycock, a
pioneer of multiracialism who, together with A.P. Rajah and C.C. Tan, had
founded Singapore's first multiracial club open to Asians.
Wife
Background:
She
is also the wife of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore and a former
pupil of Singapore's Methodist Girls' School and Cambridge University. In
Lee's biography, he stated that he first met Kwa in 1944 at a party, and
courted her from 1946. Kwa married Lee Kuan Yew on September 30, 1950, and
they have two sons and one daughter. Her eldest son is Lee Hsien Loong and
her second son is Lee Hsien Yang.
During Lee's years as Prime Minister and Senior Minister, Kwa was
frequently seen with her husband, especially on diplomatic trips and
meetings with other foreign ministers.
Father
Background:
Lee
Chin Koon (storekeeper) at Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, and was later
put in charge of various depots in Johor Bahru, Stulang and Batu Pahat.
Mother
Background:
Chua
Jim Neo came from successful middle-class families and were educated in
English schools. Jim
Neo,
to whom Lee attributes much of the family's success in overcoming the
financial difficulties.
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