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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:
Otto von Bismarck
Great
German Statesman:
Otto
von Bismarck
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was a Prussian and German statesman of the 19th century. As
Minister-President of Prussia from 1862–90, he oversaw the unification
of Germany. From 1867 on, he was Chancellor of the North German
Confederation. When the second German Empire was formed in 1871, he served
as its first Chancellor and practiced Realpolitik which gained him the
nickname "Iron Chancellor". As Chancellor, Bismarck held an
important role in German government and greatly influenced German and
international politics both during and after his time of service.
Basics:
Born: 1
April 1815 Schönhausen, Prussia
Died: 30 July 1898 (aged 83) Friedrichsruh, Germany
Nationality: Prussian and German
Religion:
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments:
Chronology
of Life Events:
1815
Born
April 1
1847
Married
and Appointed to Newly Created Prussian legislature,Vereinigter Landtag
1849
Elected
to the New Post-Revolution Prussian legislature, Landtag
1849
Prussia's
Representatives at the Erfurt Parliament, an Assembly of German States
1851
Elected
to be Prussia's Envoy Diet of the German Confederation in Frankfurt
1858
Appointed
Prussia's Ambassador to the Russian Empire
1862
Appointed
the Ambassador to France
1862
Appointed
Bismarck Minister-President and Foreign Minister
1871
Raised
to the Rank of Fürst (Prince) von Bismarck
1878
Instituted
the Anti-Socialist Laws
1883
Appeased
Socialists and Allowed Health Insurance Act
1884
Accident
insurance was 'Allowed' by Bismarck: and Old Age Pensions Followed
1898
Died
on July 30, in Friedrichsruh, Germany
Early
Life:
Bismarck
was born in Schönhausen, the wealthy family estate situated west of
Berlin in the Prussian Province of Saxony. His father, Karl Wilhelm
Ferdinand von Bismarck (Schönhausen, November 13, 1771 - November 22,
1845), was a landowner and a former Prussian military officer; his mother,
Wilhelmine Luise Mencken (Potsdam, February 24, 1789 - Berlin), the
educated daughter of a politician. A.J.P. Taylor later remarked on the
importance of this dual heritage: although Bismarck physically resembled
his father, and appeared as a Prussian Junker to the outside world - an
image which he often encouraged by wearing military uniform, even though
he was not a regular officer - he was also more cosmopolitan and highly
educated than was normal for men of such background. He was fluent in
English, and as a young man would often quote Shakespeare or Byron in
letters to his wife.
Bismarck was educated at the Friedrich-Wilhelm and the Graues Kloster-Gymnasium.
From 1832-33 he studied law at the University of Göttingen, where he
spent only a year as a member of the Corps Hannovera before enrolling in
the University of Berlin (1833-35).
Whilst at Göttingen, Bismarck had become the lifelong friend of an
American student John Lothrop Motley, who described Bismarck as Otto v.
Rabenmark in his novel Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial
(1839). Motley was later an eminent historian.
Although Bismarck hoped to become a diplomat, he started his practical
training as a lawyer in Aachen and Potsdam, and soon resigned, having
first placed his career in jeopardy by taking unauthorised leave to pursue
two English girls, first Laura Russell, niece of the Duke of Cleveland,
and then Isabella Loraine-Smith, daughter of a wealthy clergyman. He did
not succeed in marrying either. He also served in the army for a year and
became an officer in the Landwehr (reserve), before returning to run the
family estates at Schönhausen on his mother's death in his mid-twenties.
Round about the age of thirty Bismarck had an intense friendship with
Marie von Thadden, newly-married to a friend of his. Under her influence,
he became a Pietist Lutheran, and later recorded that at Marie's deathbed
(from typhoid) he prayed for the first time since his childhood. Bismarck
married Marie's cousin, the noblewoman Johanna von Puttkamer (Viartlum,
April 11, 1824 - Varzin, November 27, 1894) at Alt-Kolziglow on July 28,
1847. Their long and happy marriage produced one daughter (Marie) and two
sons (Herbert and Wilhelm, known as "Bill"), all of whom
survived into adulthood. Johanna was a shy, retiring and deeply religious
woman - although famed for her sharp tongue in later life - and in his
public life Bimarck was sometimes accompanied by his sister Malwine
("Malle") von Arnim.
Whilst on holiday alone in Biarritz in the summer of 1862 (prior to
becoming Prime Minister of Prussia), Bismarck would later have a romantic
liaison with Kathy Orlov, the twenty-two year old wife of a Russian
diplomat - it is not known whether or not their relationship was sexual.
Bismarck kept his wife informed of his new friendship by letter, and in a
subsequent year Kathy broke off plans to meet Bismarck on holiday again on
learning that his wife and family would be accompanying him this time.
They continued to write to one another until Kathy's premature death in
1874.
Wife
Background:
Johanna
von Puttkamer (11 April 1824 - 27 November 1894) was a Prussian
noblewoman, also known as Johanna von Bismarck. She was the sister of
statesman Robert von Puttkamer.
She married Otto von Bismarck in 1847. They had three (3) children: one
daughter and two sons (Herbert and Wilhelm).
Father
Background:
His
father, Ferdinand von Bismarck-Schönhausen, was a Junker squire descended
from a Swabian family that had ultimately settled as estate owners in
Pomerania. Ferdinand was a typical member of the Prussian landowning
elite. The family’s economic circumstances were modest—Ferdinand’s
farming skills being perhaps less.
Mother
Background:
His
mother, Wilhelmine Mencken, from Leipzig, was born February 21, 1790,
originally belonged to a well-off commoner family.
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