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How
To Assess Super
Attainers
Main Ingredients for Making SuperAttainers
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:
Nadir Shah
Great
Persian Leader:
Nadir
Shah
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Ruled
as Shah of Iran (1736–47) and was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty.
Because of his military genius, some historians have described him as the
Napoleon of Persia or the Second Alexander. Nader Shah was a member of the
Turkmen Afshar tribe of northern Persia, which had supplied military power
to the Safavid state since the time of Shah Ismail I. Nader rose to power
during a period of anarchy in Persia after a rebellion by Afghans had
overthrown the weak Shah Soltan Hossein, and both the Ottomans and the
Russians had seized Persian territory for themselves. Nader reunited the
Persian realm and removed the invaders. He became so powerful that he
decided to depose the last members of the Safavid dynasty, which had ruled
Persia for over 200 years, and become shah himself in 1736. His campaigns
created a great Iranian Empire that briefly encompassed what is now Iran,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, parts of the Caucasus region, and parts of Central
Asia, but his military spending had a ruinous effect on the Persian
economy. Nader idolized Genghis Khan and Timur, the previous
conquerors from Central Asia. Nader imitated their military prowess
and—especially later in his reign—their cruelty. Nader Shah's
victories briefly made him the Middle East's most powerful sovereign, but
his empire quickly disintegrated after he was assassinated in 1747. Nader
Shah has been described as "the last great Asian military
conqueror".
Basics:
Born:
August 6, 1698
Died: June 19, 1747
Nationality: Persian
Religion: Islam
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: He is credited for restoring Iranian
power as an eminence between the Ottomans and the Mughals.
Chronology
of Life Events:
August
6, 1698
Birth
of Nadir Shah
1722
Under their leader Mahmud, the rebellious Afghans moved westwards
against the shah himself and they defeated a vastly superior force at the
Battle of Golnabad and then besieged the capital, Isfahan.
late
1726
Nader
recaptured Mashhad.
May
1729
He
defeated the Abdali Afghans near Herat.
September
1729
The
new Ghilzai Afghan shah, Ashraf, decided to move against Nader but Nader
defeated him at the Battle of Damghan and again, decisively, in November
at Murchakhor.
1738
Nader
Shah besieged and destroyed Kandahar. This was the ultimate defeat of any
remaining Afghan forces. Nader Shah built a new city near Kandahar, which
he named Naderabad.
spring
of 1730
Nader
attacked the Ottomans and regained most of the territory lost during the
recent chaos.
1732
He
forced Tahmasp to abdicate in favor of the Shah’s baby son, Abbas III,
to whom Nader became regent.
1733
Nader
decided he could win back the territory in Armenia and Georgia by seizing
Ottoman Baghdad and then offering it in exchange for the lost provinces,
but his plan went badly amiss when his army was routed by the Ottoman
general Topal Osman Pasha near the city
summer
of 1735
Nader
scored a great victory over a superior Ottoman force at Baghavard
March
1735
He
signed a treaty with the Russians in Ganja by which the latter agreed to
withdraw all of their troops from Persian territory.
January
1736
Nader
held a qoroltai (a grand meeting in the tradition of Genghis Khan and
Timur) on the Moghan Plain in Azerbaijan.
March
8, 1736
Nader
was crowned Shah of Iran
1738
Nader
Shah conquered Kandahar, the last outpost of the Ghilzai Afghans.
February,
1739
He
defeated the Mughal army at the huge Battle of Karnal
March
22
During
the course of one day 20,000 to 30,000 Indians were killed by the Persian
troops, forcing Mohammad Shah to beg for mercy.
May
1739
The
Persian troops left Delhi
1741
While
Nader was passing through the forest of Mazanderan on his way to fight the
Daghestanis, an assassin took a shot at him but Nader was only lightly
wounded.
1743
He
conquered Oman and its main capital the city of Muscat.
1743
Nader
started another war against the Ottoman Empire.
1746
Signing of a peace treaty, in which the Ottomans agreed to let Nader
occupy Najaf.[
19
June 1747
Nader
Shah was assassinated at Fathabad in Khorasan.
Early
Life:
Nader
Shah was born in Dastgerd into the Qereqlu clan of the Afshars, a
semi-nomadic tribe in Khorasan, a province in the north-east of the
Persian Empire. His father, a poor peasant, died while Nader was still a
child. According to legends, Nader and his mother were carried off as
slaves by marauding Uzbek or Turkmen tribesmen, but Nader managed to
escape. He joined a band of brigands while still a boy and eventually
became their leader. Under the patronage of Afshar chieftains, he rose
through the ranks to become a powerful military figure. Nader married the
two daughters of Baba Ali Beg, a local chief.
Wife
Background:
Nader
married the two daughters of Baba Ali Beg, a local chief.
Father
Background:
Nadir
as the son of a poor peasant, who lived in Khurasan and died while Nadir
was still a child.
Mother
Background:
His
mother were carried off as slaves by the Özbegs.
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