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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:
Zhuge Liang
Great
Chinese Statesman:
Zhuge
Liang
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was Chancellor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He is
often recognized as the greatest and most accomplished strategist of his
era.
Basics:
Born: 181
Yinan, Shandong, China
Died: 234 Wuzhang Plains, Shaanxi, China
Nationality: Chinese
Religion:
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: He was believed to be the inventor of
the mantou, the landmine and a mysterious, efficient automatic
transportation device (initially used for grain) described as a
"wooden ox and floating horse" (木牛流馬),
which is sometimes identified with the wheelbarrow.
Chronology
of Life Events:
181
Birth
of Zhuge Liang
207
Zhuge
Liang joined Liu Bei Zhuge Liang joined Liu Bei
208
In
the Battle of Red Cliffs the allied armies of Liu Bei and Sun Quan
defeated Cao Cao, thus enabling Liu Bei to establish his own territories.
219
The
union with Sun Quan broke down when Wu general Lü Meng invaded the Jing
Province when its defender Guan Yu was at the Battle of Fancheng.
228
until his death in 234
Zhuge
Liang launched five Northern Expeditions against Cao Wei, but all except
one failed, usually because his food supplies ran out rather than failure
on the battlefield.
Early
Life:
Zhuge
Liang was born in Yangdu County (陽都)
in Langya Commandery (琅琊),
at present-day Yinan County (沂南),
Shandong Province. He was the second of three brothers and was orphaned
early on; his mother died when he was nine, and his father when he was
twelve. His uncle raised him and his siblings.[3] When Cao Cao invaded
Shandong in 195, his family was forced to flee south, and his uncle soon
died of illness.
Although both his sisters married into important families with numerous
connections in the area, for ten years he resided in Longzhong Commandery
(隆中;
in present-day Hubei province)[3] with his brothers Zhuge Jin and Zhuge
Jun (諸葛均)
in a simple peasant life – farming by day and studying by night.
He
developed friendships among the local intelligentsia. His reputation soon
grew, and he was named the Crouching (or Sleeping) Dragon, an indication
that he was viewed as wise among his peers in many areas.
Wife
Background:
He
married the daughter of another renowned scholar Huang Chengyan, whose
wife was the sister of Lady Cai, wife of the warlord Liu Biao, and Cai
Mao, one of Liu Biao's most powerful generals. Zhuge Liang's wife's name
is rumored to be Huang Yueying. The Huang family was also connected to
several other well established clans in the region.
Father
Background:
His
father died when he was twelve.
Mother
Background:
His
mother died when he was nine years old
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