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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: Vo
Nguyen Giap
Great
Vietnamese Military Leader:
Vo
Nguyen Giap
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Vietnamese
general and statesman. Principal wars: First Indochina War (1946-1954) and
Second Indochina War (1960-1975). Principal battles: Lang Son (1950); Hoa
Binh (1951-1952); Dien Bien Phu (1954); Tet Offensive (1968); the Nguyen
Hue Offensive (known in the West as the Easter Offensive) (1972); and the
final Ho Chi Minh Campaign (1975). Giap was also a journalist; served as
Interior Minister of in President Hồ Chí Minh's Viet Minh
government; was military commander of the Viet Minh; commander of the
People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN); Defense Minister; and Politburo member of
the Lao Dong Party.
Basics:
Born:
Born circa 1912in
An Xa, Quảng
Bình province, Vietnam
Nationality: Vietnamese
Fields: Military, Politics
Main Accomplishments: Famous leader of North Vietnamese
military forces for over thirty years. He came in decisive battle of Dien
Bien Phu, which ended that war in 1954.
Chronology
of Life Events:
1911
Birth
of Vo Nguyen Giap
1925
Giáp
became a messenger for the Haiphong Power Company
1930
Võ Nguyên Giáp was arrested
1931
He joined the Communist Party
1933
Giáp enrolled in Hà Nội University.
1939
He married Nguyen Thi Quang Thi, another socialist,
1944
He returned to Vietnam
1945
He helped organize resistance to the Japanese occupation forces.
Mar
13, 1954
Giáp launched his offensive
1968
Giap
was mainly responsible for the massive casualties incurred by NLF and PAVN
troops during the Tet Offensive
Jul
1976
Giáp
maintained his position as Defense Minister and was made Deputy Prime
Minister
1980
He was removed from this post at the Defense Ministry
1982
He was also removed from his position in the Politburo
Early
Life:
Võ
Nguyên Giáp was born in the village of An Xa, Quảng Bình
province. His father and mother, Vo Quang Nghiem and Nguyen Thi Kien,
worked the land, rented some to neighbors, and lived a relatively
comfortable lifestyle. At 14, Giáp became a messenger for the Haiphong
Power Company and shortly thereafter joined the Tân Việt Cách
Mạng Đảng, a romantically-styled revolutionary youth
group. Two years later he entered Quốc Học, a French-run lycée
in Huế, from which two years later, according to his own account, he
was expelled for organizing a student strike. In 1933, at the age of
twenty-one, Giáp enrolled in Hà Nội University.
Giáp was educated at the University of Hanoi where he gained a bachelor's
degree in political economy and a law degree. After graduation, he taught
history for one year at the Thang Long School in Hanoi. During most of
1930s, Giáp remained a schoolteacher and journalist, writing articles for
Tien Dang while actively participating in various revolutionary movements.
He joined the Communist Party in 1931 and took part in several
demonstrations against French rule in Indochina as well as assisting in
founding the Democratic Front in 1933. All the while, Giap was a dedicated
reader of military history and philosophy, revering Napoleon I and Sun
Tzu.
Võ Nguyên Giáp was arrested in 1930 and served 13 months of a two-year
sentence at Lao Bao Prison. During the Popular Front years in France, he
founded Hon Tre Tap Moi, an underground socialist newspaper. He also
founded the French language paper Le Travail (on which Pham Van Dong also
worked). He married Nguyen Thi Quang Thi, another socialist, in 1939. When
France outlawed communism during the same year, Giáp fled to China
together with Phạm Văn Đồng where he joined up with
Hồ Chí Minh, the leader of the Vietnam Independence League (Việt
Minh). While he was in exile, his wife, sister, father & sister-in-law
were captured and executed.
He returned to Vietnam in 1944, and between then and 1945 he helped
organize resistance to the Japanese occupation forces. When the Japanese
surrendered to the Allies in August 1945, the Japanese decided to allow
nationalist groups to take over public buildings while keeping the French
in prison as a way of causing additional trouble to the Allies in the
postwar period. The Việt Minh and other groups took over various
towns and formed a provisional government in which Giap was named Minister
of the Interior.
In September, 1945, Hồ Chí Minh announced the formation of the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Unknown to the Việt Minh, President
Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph
Stalin had already decided the future of post-war Vietnam at a summit
meeting at Potsdam. They agreed that the country would be occupied
temporarily to get the Japanese out; the northern half would be under the
control of the Nationalist Chinese and the southern half under the
British.
After
the Second World War, France attempted to re-establish control over
Vietnam. In January 1946, Great Britain agreed to remove her troops, and,
later that year, the Chinese left Vietnam in exchange for a promise from
France that she would give up her rights to territory in China.
Wife
Background:
Her
wife died on 1939, She
was executed while Vo Nguyen Giap was in exile.
Father
Background:
Father
named Vo quang Nghiem. He was literate and was a teacher of
Sino-Vietnamese [writing] and of Quoc Nhu [the Romanized Vietnamese
language developed by Alexandre de Rhodes, the Jesuit missionary priest.
He also treated diseases with traditional medicines, but when his daughter
died from dysentery, he gave up this profession.
Vo
Quang Nghiem worked the land, rented some to neighbors, and lived a
relatively comfortable lifestyle
Mother
Background:
Nguyen
Thi Kien She was the daughter of a member of the Can Vuong [Save the King]
Resistance movement, a patriotic effort at the end of the nineteenth
century to support the emperor against French colonialism. Although
illiterate, she was able to recite poems by heart such as Kim van Kieu,
Nhi Do Mai, Tong Chan Cue Hoa, and others. Passionately fond of Vietnamese
history, she was delighted to tell the stories of the Can Vuong Resistance
movement with all the vicissitudes it brought upon our people. She told
these stories first to her children, and then to her grandchildren.
She
was a housekeeper, and in charge of the familial farm. (His father was
often away.) She stayed active until her death at age 84. She was
passionately fond of plants, most happy when she could cultivate
[something green] on her small piece of ground.
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