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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:
Peter The Great
Tsar
of Russia:
Peter
the Great
Main Life Accomplishments:
In 1629, a young and determined prince named
Peter Alexeyevich Romanov took the crown of Russia. However, Peter
inherited a state where the real power was held by a large group of
traditional landowning elite, known as the boyard nobility. After a weak
rule by Michael Romanov and his son, who was backed up by the nobility,
the traditional Russian service system was breaking down, as the nobility
attempted to avoid duty in the army. As a result, the whole country was in
decay and the army in tatters. Peter the Great, however, decided to
reverse the trend and decided to consolidate what little power was given
to him by his weak predecessors. In an attempt to make Russia a great
Baltic power, Peter the Great would permanently change the Russian
military and the social structure of his country
Basics:
Born:
June 6, 1672 Moscow, Russia
Died:
February
8, 1725
Nationality: Russian
Religion: Russian
Orthodox
Fields: Military, Politics
Main Accomplishments: The czar who modernized 18th century
Russia
Chronology of Life Events:
1672
Born in Moscow, Russia
1682
He married his first wife
Evdokia Lopukhina
Apr 27, 1682
He was crowded tsar of
Russia
1696
He began his plan to
Westernize Russia
1698
He traveled to
Europe
1700
Great Northern War against
Sweeden
1703
St. Petersburg created in
Russia
1707
Second Marriage
1710
War started by Turkey
against Russia
1712
St. Petersburg is
proclaimed capital of Russia
1713
The Turkey vs. Russia war
ended
Oct 22 1721
He was announced Emperor
of Russia
1725
Died in St. Petersburg
Early
Life:
Peter was the youngest child of Czar Alexis,
by Alexis's second wife, Natalya Naryshkin. From Alexis's first marriage
(with Maria Miloslavsky) were born Feodor III, Sophia Alekseyevna, and the
semi-imbecile Ivan. On Feodor III's death (1682), a struggle broke out for
the succession between the Naryshkin and Miloslavsky factions. The
Naryshkins at first succeeded in setting Ivan aside in favor of
10-year-old Peter. Shortly afterward, however, the Miloslavsky party
incited the streltsi (semimilitary formations in Moscow) to rebellion. In
the bloody disorder that followed, Peter witnessed the murders of many of
his supporters. As a result of the rebellion Ivan, as Ivan V, was made
(1682) joint czar with Peter, under the regency of Sophia Alekseyevna.
A virtual exile, Peter spent most of his childhood in a suburb of Moscow,
surrounded by playmates drawn both from the nobility and from the roughest
social elements. His talent for leadership soon became apparent when he
organized military games that became regular maneuvers in siegecraft. In
addition, Peter began to experiment with shipbuilding on Lake Pereyaslavl
(now Lake Pleshcheyevo). Peter learned the rudiments of Western military
science from the European soldiers and adventurers who lived in a foreign
settlement near Moscow. His most influential foreign friends, Patrick
Gordon of Scotland, François Lefort of Geneva, and Franz Timmermann of
Holland, came from this colony. In 1689, Sophia Alekseyevna attempted a
coup against Peter; this time, however, aided by the loyal part of the
streltsi, he overthrew the regent. For several years, until Peter assumed
personal rule, the Naryshkins ran the government. Ivan V, whose death in
1696 left Peter sole czar, took no part in the government.
Wife
Background:
Peter's first wife was Eudoxia. They married
in 1689 and Peter sent her to a convent in 1698 (as you do.) Peter's
second wife was Catherine I, aka Peasant Martha. They got married in 1712,
and she was crowned empress in 1724.
Children wise, there was Alexis (by Eudoxia), who was tried for treason
and died in prison in 1718. Peter also had two more children by Eudoxia as
well as nine more by Catherine.
Catherine's and Peter's first child was Elizabeth, who was born out of
wedlock in 1709.
Father
Background:
Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov, he became a Tzar of
Russia in 1645-76
Born Mar 19, 1629 and died Feb 8, 1676
Mother
Background:
Natalia Kirilovna Narishkin, the death of his
mother (January 25, 1694) left the young tsar absolutely free to follow his
natural inclinations. Tiring of the great lake at Pereyaslavl, he had
already seen the sea for the first time at Archangel in July 1683, and on
the 1st of May 1694 returned there to launch a ship built by himself the
year before.
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