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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:
Mao Tse Tsung
Founder
of Communist China:
Mao
Tse Tsung
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Mao's
supporters view him as a great revolutionary leader whose thought was the
highest expression of Marxism. Supporters within China consider Mao as a
successful military and political leader who led the rise of 20th Century
China. He instigated several major socio-political programmes (some
through collectivisation), including the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the Great
Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
Basics:
Born:
Born December 26, 1893 in Shaoshan, Xiangtan County Hunan province
Died: Died 82 ( years old) at Beijing
Nationality: Chinese
Fields: Chinese Army
Main Accomplishments: Mao Tse-tsung was a founding member of
the Chinese Communist Party.
Chronology
of Life Events:
Dec
1983
Born
Sep
9, 1976
Died
1954
- 1959
Mao was the Chairman of the PRC. During this period, Mao was called
Chairman Mao or the Great Leader Chairman Mao (. The Communist Party
assumed control of all media in the country and used it to promote the
image of Mao and the Party
1927
Mao returned to Hunan where, in an urgent meeting held by the Communist
Party, he made a report based on his investigations of the peasant
uprisings in the wake of the Northern Expedition. This is considered the
initial and decisive step towards the successful application of Mao's
revolutionary theories.
1927
Mao conducted the famous Autumn Harvest Uprising in Changsha, Hunan, as
commander-in-chief. Mao led an army, called the "Revolutionary Army
of Workers and Peasants
Jul
23, 1921
Mao, aged 27, attended the first session of the Congress of the Communist
Party of China in Shanghai. Two years later, he was elected as one of the
five commissars of the Central Committee of the Party during the third
Congresses.
1919
Mao traveled with Professor Yang Changji, his high school teacher and
future father-in-law, to Beijing during the May Fourth Movement in
Professor
Yang held a faculty position at Peking University. Because of Yang's
recommendation, Mao worked as an assistant librarian at the University
with Li Dazhao as curator. Mao registered as a part-time student at
Beijing University and audited many lectures and seminars by famous
intellectuals, such as Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, Qian Xuantong, etc. During his
stay in Beijing, he read as much as possible, and through his readings, he
was introduced to Communist theories. He married Yang Kaihui, Professor
Yang's daughter and also his fellow student, despite an existing marriage
arranged by his father at home. Mao never acknowledged this marriage
Early
Life:
Due
to his family's relative wealth, his father was able to send him to school
and later to Changsha for more advanced schooling.
During the 1911 Revolution, Mao served in a local regiment in Hunan.
However, he disliked military service and later returned to school in
Changsha.After graduating from the First Provincial Normal School of Hunan
in 1918,
During his stay in Beijing, he read as much as possible, and through his
readings, he was introduced to Communist theories. He married Yang Kaihui,
Professor Yang's daughter and also his fellow student, despite an existing
marriage arranged by his father at home. Mao never acknowledged this
marriage.
Mao became a Marxist gradually. During the year 1920 in Hunan Mao
contributed a number of essays to newspapers advocating the autonomy of
Hunan Province Mao also developed his theory of violent revolution theory
was inspired by the Russian revolution and was likely influenced by the
Chinese literary works: Outlaws of the Marsh and Romance of the Three
Kingdoms
Mao led several labor struggles based upon his studies of the propagation
and organization of the contemporary labor movements. However, these
struggles were successfully subdued by the government, and Mao fled from
Changsha after he was labeled a radical activist. He pondered these
failures and finally realized that 1) industrial workers were unable to
lead the revolution because they made up only a small portion of China's
population and 2) unarmed labor struggles could not resolve the problems
of imperial and feudal suppression.
Wife
Background:
First
wife of Mao Zedong (born 1889
d: 1910) The marriage
broke up, and for many decades the identity of the bride was kept secret
in order to spare her family embarrassment.
Father
Background:
Mao
Zedong's parents altogether had six sons and two daughters. Two of the
sons and both daughters died young, leaving the three brothers Mao Zedong,
Mao Zemin, and Mao Zetan. Like all three of Mao Zedong's wives, Mao Zemin
and Mao Zetan were communists. Like Yang Kaihui, both Zemin and Zetan were
killed in warfare during Mao Zedong's lifetime
Mao was born in the village of Shaoshan in the Hunan Province of China. At
the age of six he began to work on his parents' farm. His father, Mao Jen-sheng,
was a peasant farmer, who beat his sons regularly. After only five years
of school, however, his father had him return to the farm to work in the
fields by day and manage the account books at night. In 1909 Mao, who
hated farming, fled the family farm for the next country
Mother
Background:
Wen
Qimei (b: 1867, d: 1919)
Her
Mother is devout Buddhist inspite of being illiterate.
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