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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:
Mahatma Ghandi
Great
Indian Nationalist Leader:
Mahatma
Ghandi
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Was
a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian
independence movement.
He was the pioneer of Satyagraha — the resistance of tyranny through
mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence
— which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil
rights and freedom across the world.
Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for the alleviation of poverty, for the
liberation of women, for brotherhood amongst differing religions and
ethnicities, for an end to untouchability and caste discrimination, and
for the economic self-sufficiency of the nation, but above all for Swaraj
— the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led
Indians in the disobedience of the salt tax on the 400 kilometre (248
miles) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and in an open call for the British to
Quit India in 1942.
Basics:
Born:
Born October 02, 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat
Died: Died January 30, 1948 (aged 78) at New Delhi, India
Nationality: Indian
Religion: Hinduism
Fields: Politics
Main Accomplishments: Famous activist from India of Hindu
religion.
Chronology
of Life Events:
Oct
2, 1869
Birth
of Mahatma Gandhi
1883
Gandhi
was married through his parents' arrangements to Kasturba Makhanji
Sep
4, 1888
Gandhi
went to University College London to train as a barrister.
1918
Gandhi's first major achievements with the Champaran agitation and Kheda
Satyagraha,
Dec
1921
Gandhi
was invested with executive authority on behalf of the Indian National
Congress
Mar
10, 1922
Gandhi
was arrested
Feb
1924
He was released after an operation for appendicitis
1928
Gandhi
pushed through a resolution at the Calcutta Congress
Mar
1931
The
Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed
Sep
1932
Gandhi embarked on a six-day fast
May 8, 1933
Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification to help the Harijan
movement.
1936
Three
unsuccessful attempts were made on his life.
Gandhi
returned to the head with the Nehru presidency and the Lucknow session of
the Congress
1938
Gandhi
had a clash with Subhas Bose, who had been elected to the presidency
Aug
9, 1942
Gandhi
and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in Bombay by the
British
Feb
1944
His
wife died
May
6, 1944
He was released before the end of the war because of his failing health
and necessary surgery
1946
Gandhi
advised the Congress to reject the proposals the British Cabinet Mission
offered
Jan
30, 1948
Gandhi
was shot and killed while having his nightly public walk on the grounds of
the Birla Bhavan (Birla House)
Early
Life:
Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi was born into the Hindu Modh family in Porbandar, in
1869. He was the son of Karamchand Gandhi, the diwan (Prime Minister) of
Porbandar, and Putlibai, Karamchand's fourth wife, a Hindu of the Pranami
Vaishnava order. Karamchand's first two wives, who each bore him a
daughter, died from unknown reasons (rumored to be in childbirth). Living
with a devout mother and surrounded by the Jain influences of Gujarat,
Gandhi learned from an early age the tenets of non-injury to living
beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification, and mutual tolerance
between members of various creeds and sects. He was born into the vaishya,
or business, caste.
In May 1883, at the age of 13, Gandhi was married through his parents'
arrangements to Kasturba Makhanji (also spelled "Kasturbai" or
known as "Ba"). They had four sons: Harilal Gandhi, born in
1888; Manilal Gandhi, born in 1892; Ramdas Gandhi, born in 1897; and
Devdas Gandhi, born in 1900. Gandhi was a mediocre student in his youth at
Porbandar and later Rajkot. He barely passed the matriculation exam for
Samaldas College at Bhavanagar, Gujarat. He was also unhappy at the
college, because his family wanted him to become a barrister.
At the age of 18 on September 4, 1888, Gandhi went to University College
London to train as a barrister. His time in London, the Imperial capital,
was influenced by a vow he had made to his mother in the presence of the
Jain monk Becharji, upon leaving India, to observe the Hindu precepts of
abstinence from meat, alcohol, and promiscuity. Although Gandhi
experimented with adopting "English" customs — taking dancing
lessons for example — he could not stomach his landlady's mutton and
cabbage. She pointed him towards one of London's few vegetarian
restaurants. Rather than simply go along with his mother's wishes, he read
about, and intellectually embraced vegetarianism. He joined the Vegetarian
Society, was elected to its executive committee, and founded a local
chapter. He later credited this with giving him valuable experience in
organizing institutions. Some of the vegetarians he met were members of
the Theosophical Society, which had been founded in 1875 to further
universal brotherhood, and which was devoted to the study of Buddhist and
Hindu Brahmanistic literature. They encouraged Gandhi to read the Bhagavad
Gita. Not having shown a particular interest in religion before, he read
works of and about Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and other
religions. He returned to India after being called to the bar of England
and Wales by Inner Temple, but had limited success establishing a law
practice in Bombay. Later, after applying and being turned down for a
part-time job as a high school teacher, he ended up returning to Rajkot to
make a modest living drafting petitions for litigants, but was forced to
close down that business as well when he ran afoul of a British officer.
In his autobiography, he describes this incident as a kind of unsuccessful
lobbying attempt on behalf of his older brother. It was in this climate
that (in 1893) he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian firm to a
post in Natal, South Africa.
Wife
Background:
Kastürbā
Gāndhi was born to wealthy businessman Gokuladas Makharji of
Porbandar, Kasturba married Mohandas Gandhi in May 1882, through
arrangement. They were both 13 years old. At the time, she was illiterate,
and so Gandhi taught her to read and write — a potentially radical move,
given the position of women in India at that time. When Gandhi left to
study in London in 1888, she remained in India to raise their newborn son
Harilal. She had three more sons - Manilal (1892), Ramdas (1897), and
Devdas (1900).
In 1906, Mohandas Gandhi decided to practice brahmacharya, and the couple
became celibate. Although she stood by her husband, she did not always
easily accept his ideas. Gandhi had to work hard to persuade her to see
(and agree to) his side of the viewpoint. Kasturba was deeply religious.
Like her husband, she renounced all caste distinctions and lived in
ashrams.
Kasturba often joined her husband in political protests. She traveled to
South Africa in 1897 to be with her husband. From 1904 to 1914, she was
active in the Phoenix Settlement near Durban. During the 1913 protest
against working conditions for Indians in South Africa, Kasturba was
arrested and sentenced to three months in a hard labour prison. Later, in
India, she sometimes took her husband's place when he was under arrest. In
1915, when Gandhi returned to India to support indigo planters, Kasturba
accompanied him. She taught hygiene, discipline, reading and writing to
women and children.
Kasturba suffered from chronic bronchitis. Stress from the Quit India
Movement's arrests and ashram life caused her to fall ill. After
contracting pneumonia, and being denied penicillin by her husband, she
died from a severe heart attack on February 22, 1944.
Father
Background:
His
father is the prime minister of the principality.
Mother
Background:
His mother
is a deeply religious Hindu. The entire family follows a branch of
Hinduism that advocates nonviolence and tolerance between religious
groups.
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