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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:
Pedro Alvares Cabral
Great
Portuguese Explorer:
Pedro
Alvares Cabral
Main Life Accomplishments:
He was a Portuguese navigator and explorer,
generally regarded as the first European discoverer of the sea route to
Brazil (April 22, 1500). He is thought to have been born in Belmonte, in
the Beira Baixa province of Portugal. He was the third son of Fernão
Cabral (c.1427-c.1492), Governor of Beira and Belmonte, and Isabel de
Gouveia de Queirós (c.1433-c.1483; descendant of the first King of
Portugal, Afonso I), and married Isabel de Castro, the daughter of the
distinguished Fernão de Noronha (also descendant of King Afonso I). He
must have had excellent training in navigation and large experience as a
seaman, for King Manuel I of Portugal considered him competent to continue
the work of Vasco da Gama.
Basics:
Born:
Born 1467
Died:
Died 1520 (51 years old)
Nationality: Portugese
Religion: Christian
Fields: Exploration
Main Accomplishments: The first European explorer to see Brazil
in 1500
Chronology of Life Events:
1467
Pedro Alvares Cabral was born in Portugal
Oct 10, 1500
King John II of Portugal appoints Pedro
Alvares Cabral leader of an expedition to sail for the Indies following
the success of the Portuguese explorers Christopher Columbus, Vasco de
Gama and Bartolomeu Dias - but the expedition sails West for the New World
before heading for the Indies around the Cape of Good Hope
1500
Dias accompanied Pedro Alvares Cabral on the
voyage. Vasco da Gama himself gave the directions necessary for the course
of the voyage
Mar 9, 1500
Pedro Alvares Cabral embarked from the River
Tagus below Lisbon on his voyage of exploration with 13 ships and 1500 men
May 3, 1500
Pedro Alvares Cabral resumed the voyage of
discovery back to the Indies via the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of
Good Hope
Jul 20, 1500
Pedro Alvares Cabral reached Mozambique
Aug 2, 1500
Pedro Alvares Cabral reached Melinde where he
employed a pilot to take them to India
Sep 13, 1500
Pedro Alvares Cabral arrived in Calicut in
India where he traded for spices
Jan 16, 1501
Pedro Alvares Cabral started on the journey home to Portugal
Jun 23, 1501
Pedro Alvares Cabral arrived in Lisbon with
just four ships of the thirteen that had started the adventure
1520
Nothing more of Pedro Alvares Cabral is known.
But it is believed that he died
Early
Life:
His commission was to establish permanent
commercial relations and to introduce Christianity wherever he went, using
force of arms when necessary to gain his point. The nature of the
undertaking led rich Florentine merchants to contribute to the equipment
of the ships, and priests to join the expedition. Among the captains of
the fleet, which consisted of 13 ships with 1,500 men, were Bartolomeu
Dias, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, and Nicolau Coelho, the latter the companion of
Vasco da Gama. Vasco da Gama himself gave the directions necessary for the
course of the voyage.
The fleet left Lisbon on March 9, 1500, and following the course laid
down, sought to avoid the calms off the coast of Gulf of Guinea. On
leaving the Cape Verde Islands, where Luís Pires was forced by a storm to
return to Lisbon, they sailed in a decidedly southwesterly direction. On
April 22 a mountain was visible, to which the name of Monte Pascoal was
given; on the April 23 Cabral landed on the coast of Brazil, and on the
April 25 the entire fleet sailed into the harbor called Porto Seguro.
Cabral perceived that the new country lay east of the line of demarcation
made by Pope Alexander VI (see Treaty of Tordesillas), and at once sent
André Gonçalves (according to other authorities Gaspar de Lemos) to
Portugal with the important tidings. Believing the newly-discovered
country to be an island he gave it the name of Island of the True Cross
(or Island of Vera Cruz) and took possession of it by erecting a cross and
holding a religious service. The service was celebrated by the Franciscan,
Father Henrique, afterwards Bishop of Ceuta.
Cabral resumed his voyage on May 3 1500. By the end of the month the fleet
approached the Cape of Good Hope, where it was struck by a storm in which
four vessels, including that of Bartolomeu Dias, were lost. With the ships
now reduced to one-half of the original number, Cabral reached Sofala on
July 16 and Mozambique on July 20. In the latter place he received a
cordial greeting. On July 26 he came to Kilwa where he was unable to make
an agreement with the ruler. On August 2 he reached Melinde; here he had a
friendly welcome and obtained a pilot to take him to India. On August 10,
the ship commanded by Diogo Dias, separated by weather, discovered an
island they named after St Lawrence, later known as Madagascar.
Cabral continued to India to trade for pepper and other spices,
establishing a factory at Calicut, where he arrived on September 13. In
Cochin and Cananor Cabral succeeded in making advantageous treaties. After
a chain of bad luck, culminating in a two-day bombardment of the city,
Cabral started on the return voyage on January 16, 1501, and returned with
only 4 of 13 ships to Portugal, on June 23, 1501.
Cabral was buried in a monastery in Santarém, Portugal. He died forgotten.
Father
Background:
Fernao Cabral was the Governor of Beira and
Belmonte and Isabel de Gouvea who was related to the royal family
Mother
Background:
Isabel de Gouveia de Queirós born
c. 1433 & died
c. 1483 (aged 50)
Isabel de Gouveia de Queirós was the descendant of the first King of
Portugal, Afonso I
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