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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:
Sargon the Great
Great
Ruler of Mesopotamia:
Sargon
the Great
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was an Akkadian king famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states
in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC. The founder of the Dynasty of
Akkad, Sargon reigned for 56 years, c. 2270 BC – 2215 BC. e became a
prominent member of the royal court of Kish, ultimately overthrowing its
king before embarking on the conquest of Mesopotamia. Sargon's vast empire
is known to have extended from Elam to the Mediterranean sea, including
Mesopotamia, parts of modern-day Iran and Syria, and possibly parts of
Anatolia and the Arabian peninsula. He ruled from a new capital, Akkad (Agade),
which the Sumerian king list claims he built (or possibly renovated), on
the left bank of the Euphrates.
Basics:
Born: ca.
2300 BC, Azupiranu
Died: ca. 2215 BC, Akkad
Nationality: Akkadian
Religion:
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: Sargon is regarded as one of the first
individuals in recorded history to create a multiethnic, centrally ruled
empire, and his dynasty controlled Mesopotamia for around a century and a
half.
Chronology
of Life Events:
ca.
2300 BC
Birth
of Sargon the Great
ca.
2270 BC – 2215 BC
Reign
of Sargon the Great
ca.
2215 BC
Death
of Sargon
Early
Life:
The
story of Sargon's birth and childhood is given in the "Sargon
legend", a Sumerian text purporting to be Sargon's biography. The
extant versions are incomplete, but the surviving fragments name Sargon's
father as La'ibum. After a lacuna, the text skips to Ur-Zababa, king of
Kish, who awakens after a dream, the contents of which are not revealed on
the surviving portion of the tablet. For unknown reasons, Ur-Zababa
appoints Sargon as his cupbearer. Soon after this, Ur-Zababa invites
Sargon to his chambers to discuss a dream of Sargon's, involving the favor
of the goddess Inanna and the drowning of Ur-Zababa by the goddess. Deeply
frightened, Ur-Zababa orders Sargon murdered by the hands of Beliš-tikal,
the chief smith, but Inanna prevents it, demanding that Sargon stop at the
gates because of his being "polluted with shoes." When Sargon
returns to Ur-Zababa, the king becomes frightened again, and decides to
send Sargon to king Lugal-zage-si of Uruk with a message on a clay tablet
asking him to slay Sargon. The legend breaks off at this point;
presumably, the missing sections described how Sargon becomes king.
Wife
Background:
Tashultum
(fl. late 24th-early 23rd centuries BCE) was the wife of Sargon of Akkad
and the mother of his children Enheduanna, Rimush, Manishtushu, Ibarum and
Abaish-Takal.
Father
Background:
La'ibum
is mentioned in the Sumerian language "Sargon legend" as the
father of Sargon of Akkad. No details about his life or historiocity are
known. He was presumably an Akkadian. A neo-Assyrian text asserts that
Sargon was from Azupiranu; this may have been La'ibum's native town.
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