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 Attainer Assessment

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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Profiles in Leadership Achievement

 SuperAttainer: Moshe Dayan

 

 

 

 

Military Leader and Politician of Israel:

 

Moshe Dayan

 

 

 

 

 

Main Life Accomplishments:

 

Was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953-1958), he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel.
 

Basics:

 

Born: Born May 20, 1915 in Degania, The Ottoman Empire (Also recognized as Eretz Israel or Palestine)

Died:  Died October 16, 1981 (66 years old) at Tel Aviv, Israel


Nationality: Israeli


Religion: Jewish


Fields:  Military, Politics


Main Accomplishments:  An Israeli military warrior who became a crusader for peace. He was skilled in both battle and diplomacy

 

Chronology of Life Events:

 

May 20, 1915

Birth of Moshe Dayan
 

1929

He joined the Haganah
 

1939

He was arrested by the British
 

1941

He was released
 

Jun 7, 1941

Dayan lost his left eyhen he was hit by a sniper's rifle bullet while scanning enemy positions with his binoculars.
 

1948

Dayan occupied various important positions, first as the commander of the defense in the Jordan valley
 

1959

Dayan joined Mapai
 

1964

He served as the Minister of Agriculture
 

1976

Dayan claimed that 80 percent of the cross-border clashes between Israel and Syria in the years before the war were a result of Israeli provocation.
 

1977

He became Foreign Minister in the new Likud government led by Menachem Begin.
 

1980

Dayan withdrew because of a disagreement with Begin over whether the Palestinian territories
 

1981

Dayan formed a new party, Telem, which advocated unilateral separation from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
 

Oct 6, 1981

Death of Moshe Dayan
 

Early Life:

 

Moshe Dayan was born in a kibbutz (collective farm), Degania Alef ("Degania A"), Palestine (now Israel), near the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). His parents were Shmuel and Devorah, Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He was the second child (after Gideon Baratz) born in the newly established community. At the age of 14, he joined the Haganah, the underground Jewish militant group which was at a very early stage of its existence. He was greatly influenced by the military teachings of the English Zionist officer Orde Wingate, when Dayan was a sergeant prior to World War II.

As a soldier and statesman, Moshe Dayan was the architect of Israel's military policy in three wars. These were the 1956 (October), 1967 (Six-Day), and 1973 (Yom Kippur) wars with neighboring Arab countries (see Arab-Israeli Wars).
 

Wife Background:

 

Wife #1, marriage of convenience to keep someone in Britain

Ruth Schwartz wife #2, div. 1971, the daughter of Rachel and Zvi Schwartz graduates of the famed Herzliya High School. Active in the development of home industries during the early years of Israel, and was head of the Crafts Department in the Ministry of Labour during 1953-54. She was founder and managing director of government-sponsored Maskit, which produces and markets Israel handicrafts.

 

Father Background:

 

SHEMUEL (1891-1968), pioneer of cooperative settlement in Erez Israel. Dayan was born in Zhashkov, Ukraine, and joined the Zionist movement as a youth, settling in Erez Israel in 1908. There he worked as a labourer in various agricultural settlements and was a founder of the kevuzah [[kibbutz]] *Deganyah Alef and later of Deganyah Bet.

In 1921 he helped found the first *moshav ovedim [[workers' settlements]], *Nahalal. A leader of the *Ha-Po'el ha-Za'ir Party, and later of *Mapai, Dayan represented the moshav movement in yishuv institutions [[institutions before 1948]], in the Histadrut, and at Zionist Congresses. He was a leading member of the Histadrut Agricultural Center (Ha-Merkaz ha-Hakla'i) and a Mapai member in the First, Second, and Third Knesset.
 

Mother Background:

 

DEVORAH (née Zatolowsky; 1890-1956) was a leader of the women's labour movement and an editor of Devar ha-Po'elet (women workers' weekly). Her articles appearing in the labour press were collected in the books Asapper (1952) and Be-Osher u-ve-Yagon (1959; Pioneer, 1968).

 


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