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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:
Simon Bolivar
Liberator
of Latin America:
Simon
Bolivar
Main Life Accomplishments:
Was a leader of several independence movements
throughout South America, collectively known as Bolivar's War.
Credited with leading the fight for independence in what are now the
countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia, he
is revered as a hero in these countries and throughout much of the rest of
Hispanic America.
Basics:
Born:
Born July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela
Died: Died December 17, 1830 (47 years old) at Santa Marta,
Colombia
Nationality: Venezuelan
Fields: Military, Politics
Main Accomplishments: South America Liberator
Chronology of Life Events:
Jul 24, 1783
Birth of Simon Bolivar
1792
His parents died
1799
He went to Spain
1802
He married Maria Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y
Alaysa
1803
Maria Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa
succumbed to yellow fever
1804
Bolívar returned to Europe
1807
Simon Bolivar was a Freemason who was raised
in the Scottish Rite. He returned to Valenzuela
1808
He participated in the resistance juntas in
South America
1810
Bolívar was sent to Britain on a diplomatic
mission.
1811
He went back to Valenzuela
1812
Bolívar was forced to leave Venezuela because
of an earthquake that destroyed Caracas. Bolívar had to flee to Cartagena
de Indias
1813
He led the invasion of Venezuela
May 23, 1813
He entered Mérida where he was proclaimed as
El Libertador, following the occupation of Trujillo on June 9
Jun 15, 1813
He dictated his famous Decree of War to the
Death (Decreto de Guerra a Muerte)
Aug 6, 1813
Caracas was retaken and Bolívar was ratified
as "El Libertador", thus proclaiming the Venezuelan Second Republic
1815
Bolivar fled to Jamaica
1817
Bolívar landed in Venezuela and captured
Angostura
Sep 7, 1821
The Gran Colombia was created, with Bolívar as
president and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
Aug 1821
Bolívar took over the task of fully liberating
Peru.
1824
Simon also founded the Lodge Order and Liberty
No. 2 in Peru
Aug 6, 1825
The Congress of Upper Peru, the Republic of
Bolivia was created.
Aug 27, 1830
Bolívar proclaimed himself dictator through
the "Organic Decree of Dictatorship".
Apr 27, 1830
Bolívar finally resigned his presidency,
intending to leave the country for exile in Europe, possibly in France.
Dec 17, 1830
Bolivar died after fighting a painful battle
with tuberculosis
Early
Life:
Simon Jose Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad
Bolivar was born in Caracas on July 24, 1783, to don Juan Vicente Bolívar
y Ponte and Dona Maria de la Concepción Palacios y Blanco. An aristocrat
by birth, Simón Bolívar received an excellent education from his tutors,
especially Simón Rodríguez. Thanks to his tutors, Bolívar became familiar
with the works of the Enlightenment as well as those of classical Greece
and Rome.
By the age of nine, however, Bolívar lost both his parents and was left in
the care of his uncle, don Carlos Palacios. At the age of fifteen, don
Carlos Palacios sent him to Spain to continue his education.
Bolívar left for Spain in 1799 with his friend, Esteban Escobar. En route,
he stopped in Mexico City where he met with the viceroy of New Spain who
was alarmed with the young Bolívar argued with confidence on behalf of
Spanish American independence. Bolívar arrived in Madrid on June of that
same year and stayed with his uncle, Esteban Palacios.
In Spain, Bolívar met Maria Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa whom he
married soon afterwards in 1802. Shortly after returning to Venezuela, in
1803, Maria Teresa died of yellow fever. Her death greatly affected
Bolívar and he vowed never to marry again. A vow which he kept for the
rest of his life.
After losing his wife, Bolívar returned to Spain with his tutor and
friend, Simón Rodríguez, in 1804. While in Europe he witnessed the
proclamation of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France and later the
coronation of Napoleon as King of Italy in Milan. Bolívar lost respect for
Napoleon whom he considered to have betrayed the republican ideals. But it
was in while in Italy that Bolívar made his famous vow atop Mount Aventin
of Rome to never rest until America was free.
Bolívar returned to Venezuela in 1807 after a brief visit to the United
States. In 1808 Napoleon installed his brother, Joseph, as King of Spain.
This launched a great popular revolt in Spain known as the Peninsular War.
In America, as in Spain, regional juntas were formed to resist the new
king. Unlike the Spanish junts, however, the American juntas fought
against the power of the Spanish king, not only the person of Joseph
Bonaparte.
That year, the Caracas junta declared its independence from Spain and
Bolívar was sent to England along with Andres Bello and Luis Lopez Mendez
on a diplomatic mission. Bolívar returned to Venezuela on June 3, 1811,
and delivered his discourse in favor of independence to the Patriotic
Society. On August 13 patriot forces under the command of Francisco de
Miranda won a victory in Valencia.
On July 24, 1812, Miranda surrendered after several military setbacks and
Bolívar soon had to flee to Cartagena. From there, Bolívar wrote his
famous Cartagena Manifesto in which he argued that New Granda should help
liberate Venezuela because their cause was the same and Venezuela's
freedom would secure that of New Granada. Bolívar received assistance from
New Granada and in 1813 he invaded Venezuela. He entered Merida on May 23
and was proclaimed "Libertador" by the people. On June 8 Bolívar
proclaimed the "war to the death" in favor of liberty. Bolívar captured
Caracas on August 6 and two days later proclaimed the second Venezuelan
republic.
After several battles, Bolívar had to flee once more and in 1815 he took
refuge in Jamaica from where he wrote his Jamaica Letter. That same year,
Bolívar traveled to Haiti and petitioned its president, Alexander Sabes
Petión, to help the Spanish American cause. In 1817, with Haitian help,
Bolívar returned to the continent to continue fighting.
The Battle of Boyaca of August 7, 1819
resulted in a great victory for Bolívar and the army of the revolution.
That year, Bolívar created the Angostura Congress which founded Gran
Colombia (a federation of present-day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and
Ecuador) which named Bolívar president. Royalist opposition was eliminated
during the following years. After the victory of Antonio José de Sucre
over the Spanish forces at the Battle of Pichincha on May 23, 1822, all of
northern South America was liberated. With that great victory, Bolívar
prepared to march with his army across the Andes and liberate Peru.
On July 26, 1822, Bolívar met with José de San Martin at Guayaquil to
discuss the strategy for the liberation of Peru. No one knows what took
place in the secret meeting between the two South American heroes, but San
Martin returned to Argentina while Bolívar prepared to fight against last
Spanish bastion in South America.
In 1823 Bolívar took command of the invasion of Peru and in September
arrived in Lima with Sucre to plan the attack. On August 6, 1824, Bolívar
and Sucre jointly defeated the Spanish army in the Battle of Junín. On
December 9 Sucre destroyed the last remnant of the Spanish army in the
Battle of Ayacucho, eliminating Spain's presence in South America.
On August 6, 1825, Sucre called the Congress of Upper Peru which created
the Republic of Bolivia in honor of Bolívar. The Bolivian Constitution of
1826, while never enacted, was personally written by Bolívar. Also in
1826, Bolívar called the Congress of Panama, the first hemispheric
conference.
But by 1827, due to personal rivalries among the generals of the
revolution, civil wars exploded which destroyed the South American unity
for which Bolívar had fought. Surrounded by factional fighting and
suffering from tuberculosis, El Libertador Simón Bolívar died on December
17, 1830
Wife
Background:
In May 26 of 1802, he married Maria Teresa.
The young newlyweds traveled to Venezuela, but their bliss was
short lived, for she passed away in January of 1803.
The widowed youth returned to Europe at the end of the same year, passing
through Cadiz and Madrid, and established residence in Paris in the spring
of 1804.
Maria Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa died
of yellow fever. Her death greatly affected Bolívar and he vowed never to
marry again. A vow which he kept for the rest of his life.
Father
Background:
Juan Vicente de Bolívar y Ponte, 1st Marques de
San Luisdescended remotely from King Fernando III of Castile and Count
Amedeo IV of Savoy, and was provenient in male line of the family de
Ardanza.
Mother
Background:
Maria de la Concepción de Palacios y Blanco
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