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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:
Vladimir Putin
Great
Russian Political Leader:
Vladimir
Putin
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
is the former second President and current Prime Minister of Russia as
well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers
of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31
December 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin, and then won the 2000
presidential election. In 2004, he was re-elected for a second term
lasting until 7 May 2008.
Basics:
Born: 7
October 1952 (1952-10-07) (age 55) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
(now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Nationality: Russian
Religion: Russian Orthodox
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: Throughout his presidential terms and
into his second term as Prime Minister, Putin has enjoyed high approval
ratings amongst the Russian public. During his eight years in office, the
economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase six-fold (72% in
PPP), poverty cut more than half and average monthly salaries increase
from $80 to $640, or by 150% in real rates. At the same time, his conduct
in office has been questioned by domestic dissenters, as well as foreign
governments and human rights organizations, for his handling of internal
conflicts in Chechnya and Dagestan, his record on internal human rights
and freedoms, his relations with former Soviet Republics, and his
relations with the so-called oligarchs: Russian businessmen with a high
degree of power and influence within both the Russian Government and
economy. This was seen by the Kremlin as a series of anti-Russian
propaganda attacks orchestrated by western opponents and exiled oligarchs.
Chronology
of Life Events:
Oct.
7, 1952
Vladimir V. Putin is born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), the only
child of a factory foreman and his wife.
1975
Putin graduates from the law department of Leningrad State University.
1975
Putin joins the KGB's Foreign Intelligence Service.
1983
Putin marries Lyudmila, a specialist in foreign languages. (They now
have two teenage daughters, Katya and Masha.)
1985-90
Putin is assigned to work for the KGB in East Germany.
1990
Putin becomes assistant rector for international affairs at Leningrad
State University. He also serves as an adviser to the chairman of the
Leningrad City Council.
1991-94
Putin serves as chairman of the foreign relations committee of the St.
Petersburg mayor's office.
Aug. 20, 1991
Putin
resigns from the KGB.
1994-96
Putin
serves as first deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg city government and
chairman of the committee for external relations.
August
1996
Putin is transferred to Moscow to work as President Boris Yeltsin's
first deputy manager.
March
1997
Putin becomes Yeltsin's deputy chief of staff in charge of the Main
Control Department.
May
1998
Putin
is named presidential first deputy chief of staff in charge of Russian
regions.
July
1998 - August 1999
Putin
serves as director of the Federal Security Service, a successor agency to
the KGB.
March
- August 1999
Putin
also serves as Russian Security Council secretary.
August
1999
Putin is appointed prime minister.
Dec.
31, 1999
Yeltsin
abruptly resigns, naming Putin acting president pending elections.
March
26, 2000
Putin
is elected president of Russia. He wins in the first round, capturing just
over 50 percent of the vote.
April
2000
During
a visit to London -- his first trip to the West since being elected --
Putin defends Russia's war in Chechnya.
May
7, 2000
Putin
is sworn in as Russia's second democratically elected president. "We
have a common goal: a strong Russia," he says.
June
2000
Putin
holds a summit in Moscow with U.S. President Bill Clinton. The leaders
sign two arms control agreements but disagree on U.S. plans for a national
missile defense system.
July
8, 2000
Putin
gives his first state of the nation address, expressing concerns about
Russia's falling living standards.
July
18, 2000
Putin
and Chinese President Jiang Zemin sign a joint statement opposing U.S.
plans to build missile shields over North America and Asia.
Aug.
12, 2000
The
Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, with a crew of 118
aboard. There are no survivors. Putin says he feels responsible for the
accident but denies delays in rescue efforts.
Dec. 14, 2000
Putin pardons Edmond Pope, freeing the American from a 20-year prison
sentence for espionage.
December
2000
Putin
meets in Cuba with Fidel Castro, re-establishing ties between Havana and
Moscow that broke down when the Soviet Union collapsed.
March
2001
The
United States and Russia expel 50 of each other's diplomats over alleged
espionage. Putin downplays the expulsions' effects on bilateral ties.
March
28, 2001
Putin
announces the biggest Cabinet shakeup since his election. Among the
changes, he appoints Russia's first civilian defense minister.
April
2001
The
Russian government takes over the NTV television station and cracks down
on other independent media outlets. Putin is accused of silencing
independent voices.
June
16, 2001
Putin,
in his first summit with President Bush, says Russia and the United States
"are not enemies. They do not threaten each other. And they could be
fully good allies."
July
18, 2001
Putin
holds his first formal news conference, where he praises Bush as
"sincere."
September
2001
Russia
pledges to help the U.S. anti-terrorism campaign in the wake of the Sept.
11 attacks. Putin promises increased arms supplies to anti-Taliban forces
in Afghanistan.
Nov.
13-15, 2001
Putin,
President Bush hold summit meetings in Washington and at Bush's ranch in
Crawford, Texas.
Early
Life:
His
father subsequently served with the NKVD in a sabotage group during World
War II. Two elder brothers were born in
the mid-1930s; one died within a few months of birth; the second succumbed
to diphtheria during the siege of Leningrad. His paternal grandfather,
Spiridon Putin, had been Vladimir Lenin's and Joseph Stalin's personal
cook.
Putin
graduated from the International Law branch of the Law Department of the
Leningrad State University in 1975. His final thesis was on an
international law theme: Russian: «Принцип
наиболее
благоприятствуемой
нации» ("The principle of most favored
nation").
Thereafter he was recruited to the KGB. At the University he also became a
member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and remained a member
until the party was dissolved in December 1991.
He worked in the Leningrad and Leningrad region Fifth Directorate of the
KGB, which combated the political dissent in the Soviet Union. In 1976 he
completed the KGB retraining course in Okhta, Leningrad. The available
information about his first years at the KGB is somewhat contradictory;
according to some sources, he completed the other retraining course at the
Dzerzhinsky KGB Higher School in Moscow and then in 1985—the Red Banner
Yuri Andropov KGB Institute in Moscow (now the Academy of Foreign
Intelligence), whereupon (or earlier) he joined the KGB First Chief
Directorate (Foreign intelligence branch).
From 1985 to 1990 the KGB stationed Putin in Dresden, East Germany, in
what he regards as a minor position. Following the collapse of the East
German regime, Putin was recalled to the Soviet Union and returned to
Leningrad, where in June 1991 he assumed a position with the International
Affairs section of Leningrad State University, reporting to Vice-Rector
Yuriy Molchanov. In his new position, Putin grew reacquainted with Anatoly
Sobchak, then mayor of Leningrad. Sobchak served as an Assistant Professor
during Putin's university years and was one of Putin's lecturers. Putin
formally resigned from the state security services on 20 August 1991,
during the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev.
Wife
Background:
Lyudmila
Aleksandrovna Putina (Russian:
Людмила
Александровна
Путина, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina,
née Shkrebneva,
Шкребнева; born
January 6, 1958, Kaliningrad, Soviet Union) is the wife of former Russian
President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In her early years
she was an airline stewardess on local flights from Kaliningrad. In 1986
Putina graduated from the Branch of Spanish language and philology of the
Department of Philology of Leningrad State University, where in 1990-1994
she in turn taught German. She married Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on
July 28, 1983; they have two daughters, Maria, born 1985 and Katerina (Katja)
(born 1986 in Dresden). The daughters attended the German School in Moscow
(Deutsche Schule Moskau) until Putin's appointment as Prime Minister in
1999.
In 1993 in Kaliningrad she was involved in a life-threatening car accident
and was seriously injured. After this she converted to the Orthodox faith.
For a few years until 1999 she was a Moscow representative of the JSC
Telecominvest.
Following tradition, Putina maintains a low profile on the Russian
political stage, generally avoiding the limelight except as required by
protocol and restricting her public role to supportive statements about
her husband.
Putina is a curator of a fund aimed to develop Russian language and
sometimes produces statements concerning Russian language and education.
Some claim that a minor orthography reform proposed in early 2000s was
cancelled due to her influence.
Father
Background:
His
father, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin, was conscripted into the Soviet
Navy, where he served in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s.
Mother
Background:
His
mother, Maria Ivanovna, was a factory worker
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