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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:
Louis-Nicolaus Davout
Marshal
of France:
Louis-
Nicolaus
Davout
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Was
a Marshal of France during the Napoleonic Era. Because of his prodigious
talent for war and his reputation as a stern disciplinarian, he was also
known as the "Iron Marshal". By 1815, he was the only Napoleonic
Marshal never to have been defeated in battle. Davout was also commonly
spelled "Davoust", which is how it appears on the Arc de
Triomphe and in correspondence between Napoleon and his generals.
Basics:
Born:
Born May 10, 1770 in Annoux (Yonne)
Died: Died June 1, 1823 (53 years old)
Nationality: French
Fields: Military, Politics
Main Accomplishments: A marshal of France. Because of
his prodigious talent for war, he was also known as the "Iron
Marshal".
Chronology
of Life Events:
May
10, 1770
Birth
of Louis
1788
He
joined the French army as a sub-lieutenant
1792
He was chef de bataillon in a volunteer corps in the campaign of 1792, and
distinguished himself at the Battle of Neerwinden the following spring.
1794
- 1797
He
nevertheless served in the campaigns of 1794-1797 on the Rhine, and
accompanied Desaix in the Egyptian expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte.
1801
He
was given a command in the consular guard
1807
Napoleon
left him as governor-general in the grand-duchy of Warsaw when the Treaty
of Tilsit put an end to the war
1808
He
became Duke of Auerstädt (Duc d'Auerstaedt)
1809
Davout
took part in the actions which culminated in the Battle of Eckmühl, and
also distinguished himself in the Battle of Wagram
1813
He
commanded the Hamburg military district, and defended Hamburg
1817
His
rank and titles were restored
1819
He
became a member of the chamber of peers.
1822
- 1823
He
was elected mayor of Savigny-sur-Orge
Early
Life:
Davout
was known as a very methodic person in both military and personal affairs.
Within the army and among his social peers, he was often considered cold
and distant; while respected, he was certainly not well-liked. Indeed,
during times of peace, he preferred to spend time with his family and
caring for his home rather than cultivate his high social standing.
Because of his stubborn personality and poor social skills, he had many
enemies and antagonists within the army's officer corps, most importantly
and strongly Bernadotte, Murat, with whom he clashed strongly during the
1812 campaign, Berthier and Thiébault, who later smeared Davout in his
memoirs. Out of the other Marshals, he had the best relations with Ney,
Oudinot and Saint-Cyr. His best friend was possibly General Etienne Gudin,
one of his subordinates, who was killed in battle in 1812.
He was also noted for his loyalty to his long-time wife Aimée Davout
(née Leclerc), whom he married in 1801 and who remained with him until
his death. Their marriage was loving and, most notably, the couple seem to
have been faithful to each other despite very long periods of separation.
However, their family life was marred by tragedy as several of their
children died in their infancy or childhood.
Wife
Background:
Aimée
Davout married Louis in 1801. she remained with him until his death.
They
have seems faithful to each other despite very long periods of separation.
However, their family life was marred by tragedy as several of their
children died in their infancy or childhood.
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