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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:
Oliver Cromwell
British
Military & Political Leader:
Oliver
Cromwell
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was an English military and political leader best known for his
involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his
later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was one
of the commanders of the New Model Army which defeated the royalists in
the English Civil War. After the execution of King Charles I in 1649,
Cromwell dominated the short-lived Commonwealth of England, conquered
Ireland and Scotland, and ruled as Lord Protector from 1653 until his
death in 1658.
Basics:
Born: 25
April 1599(1599-04-25), Huntingdon.
Died: 3 September 1658 (aged 59), Whitehall, London
Nationality: English
Religion:
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: Best known for his involvement in making
England into a republican
Chronology
of Life Events:
25th
April 1599
Born
Huntingdon
1616
Enters
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
1628
MP
for Huntingdon
1640
MP
for Cambridge
1642
Raises
troops for Parliament
1643
Colonel in the Eastern Association
1644
Lieutenant-General
of the Eastern Association Army
2nd
July 1644
Battle
of Marston Moor
27th
October 1644
Battle
of Newbury
1645
Lieutenant-General
of the New Model Army
14th
June 1645
Battle
of Naseby
1647
Supports
Parliamentary army in clashes with Parliament
1648
Crushes
royalist rising in South Wales
18th
August 1648
Battle
of Preston
January
1649
Supports
trial and execution of the King
August
1649
Commands
army sent to crush Ireland
July
1650
Commands
army sent to crush Scotland
3rd
September 1650
Battle
of Dunbar .
3rd
September 1651
Battle
of Worcester
20th
April 1653
Dissolves
Parliament
16th
December 1653
Becomes
Lord Protector
September
1654
Meets
first Protectorate Parliament
October
1655
System
of the Major- Generals established
September
1656
Meets
second Protectorate Parliament
March
-June 1657
Rejects
Parliament's offer of the crown and remains Lord Protector
3rd
September 1658
Dies
at Whitehall
30th
January 1661
Exhumed
and posthumously 'executed'
Early
Life:
Relatively
few sources survive which tell us about the first 40 years of Cromwell's
life. He was born in Huntingdon on 25 April 1599, to Elizabeth and Robert
Cromwell (c.1560-1617). He was descended from Catherine Cromwell (born
circa 1482), an older sister of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell. Catherine
was married to Morgan ap Williams, son of William ap Yevan of Wales and
Joan Tudor (reportedly a granddaughter of Owen Tudor, which would make
Cromwell a distant cousin of his Stuart foes). The family line continued
through Richard Cromwell (c. 1500–1544), Henry Cromwell (c. 1524–6
January 1603), then to Oliver's father Robert Cromwell (c. 1560–1617),
who married Elizabeth Steward or Stewart (1564–1654) on the day of
Cromwell's birth. Thus, Thomas was Oliver's second great-granduncle.
The social status of Cromwell's family at his birth was relatively low
within the gentry class. His father was a younger son, and one of 10
siblings who survived into adulthood. As a result, Robert's inheritance
was limited to a house in Huntingdon and a small amount of land. This land
would have generated an income of up to £300 a year, near the bottom of
the range of gentry incomes. Cromwell himself, much later in 1654, said
"I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in considerable height,
nor yet in obscurity".
Records survive of Cromwell's baptism and of his attendance at Huntingdon
Grammar School. He went on to study at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,
which was then a recently founded college with a strong puritan ethos. He
left in June 1617 without taking a degree, immediately after the death of
his father. Early biographers claim he then attended Lincoln's Inn, but
there is no record of him in the Inn's archives. He is more likely to have
returned home to Huntingdon, given that his mother was widowed, his seven
sisters were unmarried, and there was, therefore, a need to take charge of
the family
Wife
Background:
Cromwell
married Elizabeth Bourchier (1598–1665), daughter of Sir James Bourchier,
a London merchant. The marriage was long and stable and produced nine
children.
Father
Background:
Robert
Cromwell (d 1617) was one of the younger sons of Sir Henry.
Mother
Background:
Elizabeth
Steward, sister of Sir Thomas, was the mother of Oliver Cromwell.
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