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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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Sultan
of Egypt & Muslin Hero:
Saladin
Main Life Accomplishments:
Sultan of Egypt and Syria, was an illustrious
twelfth century Kurdish Muslim general and warrior from Tikrit, in present
day northern Iraq. He founded the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt, Syria, Yemen
(except for the Northern Mountains), Mesopotamia, Mecca, Hejaz and Diyar
Bakr. Although he is known worldwide as Saladin his real name was Yousuf.
Muslim leader of the Third Crusade. The
capture of Jerusalem in 1187. The chivalrous relationship between the
Christian King Richard the Lionheart and the Muslim leader Saladin
Basics:
Born:
Born c. 1138 into a Kurdish
Died: Died March 4, 1193 at Damascus
Nationality: Kurd
Religion: Muslim
Fields: Military, Politics
Main Accomplishments: He was the most famous Muslim hero and a
consummate military tactician.
Chronology of Life Events:
c. 1138
Birth of Saladin
1169
Saladin eventually succeeded the defeated
faction and his uncle as vizier
1171
Saladin had the imams pronounce the name of
Al-Mustadi, the Sunni and, more importantly, Abbassid caliph
1171 & 1172
Saladin retreated from an invasion of the
Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Nov 25, 1177
He was defeated by the combined forces of
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Raynald of Chatillon and the Knights Templar
1178
A truce was declared between Saladin and the
Crusader States
1179
Saladin spent the subsequent year recovering
from his defeat and rebuilding his army, renewing his attacks
1187
Saladin conquered most of the Kingdom of
Jerusalem.
Jul 4, 1187
1187, he faced at the Battle of Hattin the
combined forces Guy of Lusignan, King consort of Jerusalem, and Raymond
III of Tripoli.
Aug 29, 1179
He captured the castle at Bait al-Ahazon and
approximately 700 prisoners were taken and executed.
Oct 2, 1187
He recaptured Jerusalem
1188
Saladin released Guy of Lusignan and returned
him to his wife
1189
They sought to reclaim Tyre for their kingdom
Sep 7, 1191
Saladin was defeated by King Richard I of
England at the Battle of Arsuf
Mar 4, 1193
Saladin died at Damascus
Early Life:
Saladin was born c. 1138 into a Kurdish[5]
family in Tikrit and was sent to Damascus to finish his education. His
father, Najm ad-Din Ayyub, was governor of Baalbek. For ten years Saladin
lived in Damascus and studied Sunni Theology, at the court of Nur ad-Din
(Nureddin).
After an initial military education under the
command of his uncle, Nur ad-Din's lieutenant Shirkuh, who was
representing Nur ad-Din on campaigns against a faction of the Fatimid
caliphate of Egypt in the 1160s, Saladin eventually succeeded the defeated
faction and his uncle as vizier in 1169. There, he inherited a difficult
role defending Egypt against the incursions of the Latin Kingdom of
Jerusalem, under Amalric I. His position was tenuous at first; no one
expected him to last long in Egypt where there had been many changes of
government in previous years due to a long line of child caliphs fought
over by competing viziers. As the leader of a foreign army from Syria, he
also had no control over the Shi'ite Egyptian army, which was led in the
name of the now otherwise powerless caliph Al-Adid.
When the caliph died, in September 1171,
Saladin had the imams pronounce the name of Al-Mustadi, the Sunni and,
more importantly, Abbassid caliph in Baghdad, at sermon before Friday
prayers; authority simply deposed the old line. Now Saladin ruled Egypt,
but officially as the representative of Nur ad-Din, who himself
conventionally recognised the Abbassid caliph. Saladin revitalized the
economy of Egypt, reorganized the military forces and, following his
father's advice, stayed away from any conflicts with Nur ad-Din, his
formal lord, after he had become the real ruler of Egypt. He waited until
Nur ad-Din's death before starting serious military actions: at first
against smaller Muslim states, then directing them against the Crusaders.
With Nur ad-Din's death (1174), he assumed the title of sultan in Egypt.
There he declared independence from the Seljuks, founded the Ayyubid
dynasty and restored Sunnism in Egypt. He extended his territory westwards
in the maghreb, and when his uncle was sent up the Nile to pacify some
resistance of the former Fatimid supporters, he continued on down the Red
Sea to conquer Yemen. He is also regarded as a Waliullah which means
someone who is religiously close to God to the Sunni Muslims.
Father
Background:
Ayyub was the son of Shadhi ibn Marwan and
brother of Shirkuh. The family belonged to the Kurdish tribe of Rawadiya,
itself a branch of the Hadhabani tribe. They were closely connected to the
Shaddadid dynasty, and when the last Shaddadid was deposed in Dvin in 1130,
Shadhi moved the family first to Baghdad and then to Tikrit, where he was
appointed governor by the regional administrator Bihruz. Ayyub succeeded his
father as governor of Tikrit when Shadhi died soon after.
In 1132 Ayyub was in the service of Zengi, and participated in a battle
against the Seljuk Sultan near Tikrit. Najm ad-Din saved Zengi's life when
he assisted Zengi's retreat across the Tigris. In 1136, Shirkuh killed a
Christian with whom he was quarrelling in Tikrit, and the brothers were
exiled (Ayyub's son Yusuf, later known as Saladin, was supposedly born the
night they left). Zengi appointed Ayyub governor of Baalbek, and when the
town was besieged in 1146 by Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the atabeg of the Burid emir
of Damascus, Ayyub surrendered it and retired to Damascus. Shirkuh,
meanwhile, entered the service of Zengi's son Nur ad-Din, who had designs on
Damascus; when the Second Crusade besieged the city in 1148, Nur ad-Din
forced Mu'in ad-Din and the Burids into a reluctant alliance. Soon Nur
ad-Din demanded the city be handed over to him, and Ayyub and Shirkuh
negotiated the surrender of the city in 1154. Ayyub remained governor of
Damascus under Nur ad-Din's rule. He was held in such honour that he was the
only one of Nur ad-Din's officials allowed to remain seated in his presence.
Ayyub's son Saladin also took up service with Nur ad-Din, and he was sent to
Egypt to take control in Nur ad-Din's name during the period of joint
crusader-Byzantine invasions. In 1170 Ayyub joined him there, either
summoned by Saladin himself, or sent by Nur ad-Din to convince Saladin to
depose the last Fatimid caliph. Saladin offered the vizierate to him, but he
refused, and instead was granted Alexandria, Damietta, and Al Buhayrah as
personal fiefs. Many of Saladin's other relatives also joined him in Egypt.
Nur ad-Din did not trust Saladin and his family, correctly assuming that
they were consolidating power against him; Ayyub publicly supported Nur
ad-Din, but privately warned his son that Nur ad-Din should never be allowed
to take Egypt from him.
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