Identifying
SuperAttainers
The
SuperAttainment Research Center is funding a multi-year study of high achieving individuals across a great variety of fields and geographies. The purpose is to determine key attributes indicating an propensity toward superior achievement that can be recognized by most people with experience managing other people.
The work is ongoing and is being expanded continuously.
The
SuperAttainment Research Center is an initiative to help people
in management positions identify high potential leaders and channel
them toward meaningful contributions to their organizations and to
society at large.
The
8 attributes of SuperAttainers listed below are considered some of
the
most common and easiest to identify when accompanied by other
aspects of career success.
8
Attributes of
SuperAttainers
1. Early Success
The Early Bird Gets the Worm…and Everything Else
SuperAttainers usually begin doing amazing things early in their life. In fields like music and sport, it has long been
understood that for a child to have a chance at greatness, he needs to begin around age 3 and then work at it for many years. In business and politics, unusual ability is also recognized early in a SuperAttainer’s career and is followed with many years of continued achievement. In the greatness game, it is the rabbit who wins the
race -- as long as he persists like the tortoise.
2. Contrarian
When in Rome, Don’t Do As the Romans
SuperAttainers generally think of themselves as different and apart from other people. They can often be described as rebellious and
disobedient by those who try to rule over them and are never willing crowd followers. Tremendous success seems to require doing things tremendously different.
Doing things a little better will yield results that are only a little better than others and this is not what SuperAttainers are interested in.
3. Conceited
The Pride Before The Rise
In order for someone to be thought of as great in the minds of others, he must first be thought of as great in his own mind. The tremendous achievements of SuperAttainers seem to be merely a realization in the outer world of what is already in their inner world. Predictably, it is uncommon for such people to be overly shy about describing their abundant abilities. Many SuperAttainers 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. Hard-Knocked
Nothing Succeeds Like Suffering
SuperAttainers have often experienced traumatic periods when their careers or even their lives were in great peril. It is during these times that they gain a deep seated feeling of personal vulnerability that can stay with them for the rest of their lives. The advantage to the future SuperAttainer is that they become consumed by the realization that they must accomplish all they can while they have the chance because it can all come crashing down at any time. It is a psychological condition that will drive them to greatness for
the rest of their lives.
5. Loner
One is Company, Two is a Crowd
SuperAttainers are often described by others as dreamers, outsiders, cold-hearted and similar labels often given to loners. They are comfortable spending long periods in the company of themselves to ponder, learn and envisage the future. 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
leading the group.
6. Mentored
& Motivated
Behind Every Great Man are His Parents
Parents often play
the key role in the cultivation and realization of SuperAttainers,
spending immense amounts of time and money to give their offspring
the skills, experiences and relationships required for immense
amounts of success. They tutor baby SuperAttainers from the crib,
send them to the best schools and put them in touch with the best
mentors. It has been shown that mothers, in particular, can play a
strong role if they are supremely confident in their son's innate
abilities and then take devoted and continuing action to develop
them.
7. Discontent
Patience is No Virtue
SuperAttainers have an abnormally intense need for continuous accomplishment. Success does not bring these people a sense of inner peace. There is always someone else to overtake or a higher target to aspire to. They are impatient, dissatisfied and edgy when not engaged in activities that lead to the fulfillment of their personal goals. They seem psychologically unstable in this regard compared with most people.
8. Promoted
Self-Flattery Gets You Everywhere
There have been many great people who have lived and died in the history of our species but nobody knows most of them because their achievements were inadequately documented. In order to be thought of as a great success by large numbers of people, someone needs to be a great success at publicizing the SuperAttainer. In most instances, it is the SuperAttainers
themselves who are great self-promoters. In other cases, another talented person takes on the critically important role.
TWO
TYPES OF SUPERATTAINERS
1. Aristocratic SuperAttainers
Pampered and pompous, these people excel despite having been given it all. They grow up with all the best things, attend the best schools and hobnob with the best minds. Because they are so deeply bonded to a powerful and privileged elite, they are often conservative and elitist. Real change seldom happens with these people in charge. On the plus side, they are less likely to lead themselves and their followers down paths of mutual destruction. Examples of Aristocratic SuperAttainers include: Winston Churchill, Peter the Great, Louis XIV and Frederick the Great.
2. Come-From-
Nothing
SuperAttainers
Rags to riches, these people pull themselves up to greatness 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. Examples of Come-From-Nothing SuperAttainers include: Joseph Stalin,
Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Mao Zedong.
Rules
for Managers
Rules
for Self-Help
Rules
for Parents
Men
Vs. Women
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SuperAttainer:
Albert Einstein
Great
Scientist:
Albert
Einstein
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Einstein's
many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity,
which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory
of relativity, which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform
motion, creating a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions
include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence,
classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to
quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules,
atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas,
thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the
foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including
stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the
geometrization of physics.
Einstein published over 300 scientific works and over 150 non-scientific
works.[2][3] Einstein is revered by the physics community,[4] and in 1999
Time magazine named him the "Person of the Century". In wider
culture the name "Einstein" has become synonymous with genius.
Basics:
Born:
March 14, 1879(1879-03-14) Ulm, Württemberg, Germany
Died: April 18, 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Nationality: German
Religion: Atheist
Fields: Science
Main Accomplishments: He was a famous physicist from United
States.
Chronology
of Life Events:
1879
Albert
Einstein is born to Hermann Einstein (a featherbed
salesman) and his wife Pauline in Ulm, Germany.
1884
Around
this time, Albert receives his first compass, beginning his quest to
investigate the natural world.
1896
Albert
graduates from high school at the age of 17 and enrolls at the ETH (the
Federal Polytechnic) in Zurich.
1901
Albert
becomes a Swiss citizen. Unemployed, he searches for work. He and Mileva
meet in northern Italy for a tryst. Mileva becomes pregnant. In the fall,
Albert finds work in Schaffhausen, Switzerland as a tutor. Mileva, visibly
pregnant, moves to Stein Am Rhein, three miles upriver. Mileva then moves
to Hungary to give birth to their baby at her parent's home. Albert moves
to Bern.
1903
Albert
and Mileva marry in January
1905
"Annus
Mirabilis" -- Einstein's "Miracle Year": his Special Theory
of Relativity is born. June 30th, Einstein, submits his paper, "On
the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" to the leading German physics
journal. At age 26, he applies his theory to mass and energy and
formulates the equation e=mc2.
1907
Einstein
begins applying the laws of gravity to his Special Theory of Relativity.
1911
The
Einsteins move to Prague where Albert is given a full professorship at the
German University there. Albert is the youngest to attend the
invitation-only Solvay Conference in Brussels, the first world physics
conference.
1913
Einstein
works on his new Theory of Gravity.
1914
Einstein
becomes director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and professor
of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin. The family moves there
in April, but Mileva and the sons return to Zurich after 3 months. The
divorce prodeedings begin. In August, World War I begins.
1915
Einstein
completes the General Theory of Relativity.
1917
Einstein
collapses and, near death, falls seriously ill. He is nursed back to
health by his cousin, Elsa. He publishes his first paper on cosmology.
1919
Albert
marries Elsa. May 29, a solar eclipse proves Einstein's General Theory of
Relativity works.
1932
Einstein
is 53 and at the height of his fame. Identified as a Jew, he begins to
feel the heat of Nazi Germany.
1933
Albert
and Elsa set sail for the United States. They settle in Princeton, New
Jersey where he assumes a post at the Institute for Advanced Study.
1936
Elsa
dies after a brief illness.
1939
World
War II begins. Einstein writes a famous letter to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt warning of the possibility of Germany's building an atomic bomb
and urging nuclear research.
1940
Einstein
becomes an American citizen; retains Swiss citizenship.
1949
Mileva
dies.
1955
Einstein
dies of heart failure on April 16.
Early
Life:
In
his early years, Albert Einstein's mother was disturbed by how long it
took him to learn how to talk. His elementary school teachers thought that
he was a foolish dreamer, and one teacher had even asked him to drop out
of his class. Young Albert hated sports as a child, and they made him
dizzy and tired, but he made up for his hatred of sports with his love for
music. He would play Mozart sonatas on the violin, usually accompanied by
his mother. He also liked private games, such as building a house of
cards.
For academics, he loved math and science. Max Talmud, a medical student
and a friend to the family, went to dinner with them every Thursday night
and brought Albert science books. Einstein's Uncle Jacob gave him math
problems, and he received a book on geometry when he was 12. Over the next
two years he taught himself calculus.
Even though he loved academics, he disliked school and eventually dropped
out of high school. Without a high school diploma, he had to take special
exams to get into college. He failed the first set and had to re-take
them. After graduation, he couldn't get a job anywhere. He was even
rejected by the Swiss military because he had flat feet, but he eventually
found a tutoring job and earned three francs an hour.
Einstein finally got a job at a Swiss patent office, and earned just
enough money so that his parents didn't have to support him, his young
wife, and their new-born baby. Then, he started to work in solitude in the
patent office, in between patent applications, on problems that had
intrigued him as a child.
Wife
Background:
Mileva
Marić (December 19, 1875 – August 4, 1948; Serbian Cyrillic:
Милева
Марић) was the Serbian first wife
(1903-1919) of Albert Einstein, and mother of three children with him. It
has been claimed that she contributed to Einstein's early research, but
this has not been sufficiently substantiated.
Elsa
Einstein (18 January 1876 - 20 December 1936) was the second wife and
cousin of Albert Einstein. She was the daughter of Rudolf Einstein and
Fanny (née Koch) and was born in Hechingen, Germany.[1] Mrs. Einstein had
the surname of Einstein at birth, lost it when she took the name of her
first husband Max Löwenthal, and regained it in 1919 when she married her
cousin Albert.
Father
Background:
Hermann
Einstein (August 30, 1847 – October 10, 1902) was the father of Albert
Einstein.
Hermann
married 18-year-old Pauline Koch in Cannstatt, Wuerttemberg on August 8,
1876.[2] After their wedding, the young couple lived in Ulm, where Hermann
became joint partner in the bed feathers shop of his cousins Moses and
Hermann Levi. In Ulm their son Albert was born on March 14, 1879. On the
initiative of Hermann’s brother Jakob, the family moved to Munich in the
summer of 1880. There the two brothers founded the electrical engineering
company Einstein & Cie, with Hermann being the merchant and Jakob the
technician. The second child of Hermann and Pauline, their daughter Maria
(called Maja) was born in Munich on November 18, 1881.
Hermann's
health deteriorated after 1900 and he died very painfully of heart failure
in 1902, aged 55.
Mother
Background:
Pauline
Einstein, nee Koch, the mother of the great physicist Albert Einstein, was
born in Cannstatt, Wuerttemberg, on February 8, 1858. She was Jewish and
had an older sister, Fanny, and two older brothers, Jacob and Caesar. Her
parents were Julius Derzbacher (1816–1895), who had accepted the family
name Koch in 1842 and Jette Bernheimer (1825–1886). They had married in
1847. Pauline’s father was from Jebernhausen and came from simple
circumstances. Later he lived in Cannstatt and he succeeded together with
his brother Heinrich to make a considerable fortune with corn trade. They
even became “Royal Wuerttemberg Purveyor to the Court”. Their mother
was from Cannstatt and was a quiet and caring person.
The only 18-year-old Pauline married the merchant Hermann Einstein
(1847–1902) who lived in Ulm, in Cannstatt on August 8, 1876. After the
marriage the young couple lived in Ulm, where Hermann Einstein became
joint partner in a bed feathers company. Their son Albert (1879–1955)
was born on March 14, 1879. On the initiative of Hermann’s brother Jakob
the family moved to Munich in the summer of 1880, where the two brothers
together founded an electrical engineering company. The second child of
Hermann and Pauline, their daughter Maria – called Maja –
(1881–1951) was born in Munich on November 18, 1881.
SuperAttainer
ANALYSIS SECTION:
1. Early Success
When did the SuperAttainer first display ability
that was greatly above average and what were his accomplishments?
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2. Contrarian
What actions did the SuperAttainer take that demonstrated a mindset that was very different from those around him?
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3. Conceited
What are the actions and documented statements that exhibit an elevated sense of self importance of the
SuperAttainer?
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4. Hard-Knocked
During what events did the SuperAttainer experience personal misery and severe anxiety?
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5. Loner
Is there evidence of the SuperAttainer being comfortable spending time apart from others?
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6. Mentored & Motivated
Who was vital to developing the SuperAttainer and guiding his career and what significant actions were taken?
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7. Discontent
What evidence is there that the SuperAttainer was unsatisfied with even great personal accomplishment?
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8. Promoted
What actions or events were responsible for
publicizing the tremendous achievements and abilities of the SuperAttainer?
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Overall
Score:
x
out of 8 = xx%
PASS
SuperAttainer
Type:
Describe the factors in the SuperAttainer’s background to indicate
whether he is a Come-From-Nothing or Aristocratic type..
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