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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:
Robert Clive
Great
British Military Leader:
Robert
Clive
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Also
known as Clive of India, was a British soldier who established the
military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Southern
India and Bengal. Together with Warren Hastings he was one of the key
figures in the creation of British India.
Basics:
Born: 29-Sep-1725
Moreton Say, Shropshire, England
Died: 22-Nov-1774 London, England
Nationality: British
Religion:
Fields: Politics, MIlitary
Main Accomplishments: He established British rule in India.
Chronology
of Life Events:
29
September 1725
Birth
of Robert Clive
4
September 1746
Madras
was attacked by French Forces led by La Bourdonnais (this dispute was part
of the War of the Austrian Succession) and after several days of
bombardment the English forces surrendered and the French entered the
city.
1748
The
Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle forced him to return to civil duties for a short
time.
summer
of 1751
Chanda
Sahib had left Arcot, the capital of the Carnatic, to attack Mahommed Ali
Wallajah at Tiruchirapalli.
1754
The
first of the Carnatic treaties was made provisionally, between Thomas
Saunders, the Company's resident at Madras, and M. Godeheu, the French
commander, in which the English protegé, Mohammed Ali Khan Walajah, was
virtually recognized as Nawab, and both nations agreed to equalize their
possessions.
1756
When
war again broke out nd the French, during Clive's absence in Bengal,
obtained successes in the northern districts, his efforts helped to drive
them from their settlements.
July
1755
Clive
returned to India to act as deputy governor of Fort St. David, a small
settlement south of Madras.
July
17
His
convoy of ships from England, returning to India for the East India
Company, the lead ship Dodington wrecked near Port Elizabeth, losing a
chest of gold coins belonging to Robert Clive, worth £33000
1756
Siraj
Ud Daulah had succeeded his grand father Alivardi Khan as Nawab of Bengal.
June
1756
Clive
received news, firstly that the new Nawab had attacked the English at
Kasimbazar and he had taken the fort at Calcutta.
Dec.
1756
No
response had been received to diplomatic letters to the Nawab and so
Admiral Charles Watson and Clive were dispatched to attack the Nawab's
army and remove him from Calcutta by force.
2
January 1757
Calcutta
itself was taken with similar ease.
3
February 1757
Clive
encountered the army of the Nawab itself.
5
February 1757
The
British forces attacked and after an initial assault during which around
one tenth of the British attackers were killed, the Nawab sought to make
terms with Clive and surrendered control of Calcutta.
21
June 1757
Clive
arrived on the bank opposite Plassey, in the midst of that outburst of
rain which ushers in the south-west monsoon of India.
1760
The
35-year-old Clive returned to England with a fortune of at least £300,000
and the quit-rent of £27,000 a year.
3
May 1765
Clive
landed at Calcutta to learn that Mir Jafar had died, leaving him
personally £70,000, and had been succeeded by his son, though not before
the government had been further demoralized by taking £100,000 as a gift
from the new Nawab; while Kasim Ali had induced not only the viceroy of
Oudh, but the emperor of Delhi himself, to invade Bihar.
February
1767
Clive
left India for the last time
1769
He
acquired the house and gardens at Claremont near Esher and commissioned
Lancelot "Capability" Brown to remodel the garden and rebuild
the house.
1772
He
had to defend his actions against his numerous and vocal critics in
Britain.
22
November 1774
He
committed suicide at his Berkeley Square home in London by stabbing
himself with a pen-knife.
Early
Life:
Robert
Clive was born at Styche, the family estate, in the parish in Moreton Say,
near Market Drayton, Shropshire. He was briefly educated at Merchant
Taylors' School in London, until his expulsion. From his second speech in
the House of Commons in 1773, it is known that the estate yielded only £500
a year. To supplement this income, his father practised law. The Clives,
or Clyves, were one of the oldest families in the county of Shropshire.
They held the manor of that name in the reign of Henry II. Members of the
family include an Irish chancellor of the exchequer under Henry VIII, a
member of the Long Parliament. Robert's father for many years represented
Montgomeryshire in parliament. His mother was the daughter of Nathaniel
Gaskell of Manchester. Robert was their eldest son. He had five younger
sisters and a brother.
Teachers despaired of the young Clive. He is reputed to have climbed the
tower of St Mary's Parish Church in Market Drayton and perched on a
gargoyle, frightening those down below. He also attempted to set up a
protection racket enforced by a gang of youths. Faced with the choice of
paying up or receiving a visit from Clive and his 'boys', many of Market
Drayton's shopkeepers decided to pay.
If his behaviour generally was bad, in school it was worse - he was
expelled from three schools, including Market Drayton Grammar School. For
all his neglect of studies, he did develop a clear and vigorous writing
style which marked all his despatches, and made Lord Chatham declare that
one of his speeches in the House of Commons was the most eloquent he had
ever heard.
Wife
Background:
His
wife is Margaret Maskelyne. In 1766, she rented Westcomb House, not far
from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, where her brother, Nevil, lived.
Father
Background:
Robert's
father for many years represented Montgomeryshire in parliament.
Mother
Background:
His
mother was the daughter of Nathaniel Gaskell of Manchester.
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