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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Famous Italian Renaissance Sculptor:
Donatello
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Donatello, diminutive of Donato, Italian
sculptor, was the son of Niccolò di Betto Bardi, a member of the
Florentine Woolcombers/ Gild, and was born in Florence probably in 1386.
The date is conjectural, since the scanty contemporary records of
Donatello's life are contradictory, the earliest documentary reference to
the master bearing the date 1406, when a payment is made to him as an
independent sculptor. That Donatello was educated in the house of the
Martelli family, as stated by Giorgio Vasari, and that he owed to them his
introduction to his future friend and patron, Cosimo de Medici, is very
doubtful, in view of the fact that his father had espoused the cause of
the Albizzi against the Medici, and was in consequence banished from
Florence, where his property was confiscated. It is, however, certain that
Donatello received his first training, according to the custom of the
period, in a goldsmith's workshop, and that he worked for a short time in
Lorenzo Ghiberti's studio. He was too young to enter the competition for
the baptistery gates in 1402, from which Ghiberti issued victorious
against Filippo Brunelleschi, Jacopo Della Quercia, Niccolò d'Arezzo and
other rivals. But when Brunelleschi in his disappointment left Florence
and went to Rome to study the remains of classic art he was accompanied by
young Donatello. While pursuing their studies and excavations on classic
soil, which made them talked about amongst the Romans of the day as
"treasure seekers", the two young men made a living by working at the
goldsmith's shops. This Roman sojourn was decisive for the entire
development of Italian art in the 15th century, for it was during this
period that Brunelleschi undertook his measurements of the Pantheon dome
and of other Roman buildings, which enabled him to construct the noble
cupola of S. Maria del Fiore in Florence, while Donatello acquired his
knowledge of classic forms and ornamentation. The two masters, each in his
own sphere, were to become the leading spirits in the art movement of the
15th century. Brunelleschi's buildings and Donatello's monuments are the
supreme expression of the spirit of the early Renaissance in architecture
and sculpture and exercised a potent influence upon the painters of that
age.
Basics:
Born:
c. 1386 Florence
Died: 13
December 1466 Florence
Religion: Roman Catholic
Nationality: Italian
Fields: Arts
Main Accomplishments: Donatello was a famous early
Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part,
known for his work in basso rilievo, a form of shallow relief sculpture
that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century
developments in perspectival illusionism.
Chronology
of Life Events:
1386
Born of Donatello.
1406
He began to work on the Cathedral.
1427
He invented the technique known as schiacciato (shallow relief), in
which he ingeniously achieved effects of spatial depth.
1427
He completed the worked on the famous scene Salome for the Siena
baptistery.
1430 - 1432
He went to Rome with Brunelleschi and became one of the first
Renaissance artists interested in ancient monuments.
1447 - 1453
He designed the equestrian statue of Gattamelata and the high altar
for Sant' Antonio.
1966
He carved the acutely expressive Magdalen, which was greatly damaged
by the flood in this year.
Early
Life:
Donatello was the son of Niccolo di Betto
Bardi, who was a member of the Florentine Wool Combers Guild, and was born
in Florence, most likely in 1386. Donatello was educated in the house of
the Martelli family. He apparently received his early artistic training in
a goldsmith's workshop, and then worked briefly in the studio of Lorenzo
Ghiberti. Lorenzo Ghiberti on Gates of Paradise, Baptistery, Florence,
self portrait. ...
While undertaking study and excavations with Filippo Brunelleschi in Rome
(1404-1407), work that gained the two men the reputation of treasure
seekers, Donatello made a living by working at goldsmiths' shops. Their
Roman sojourn was decisive for the entire development of Italian art in
the 15th century, for it was during this period that Brunelleschi
undertook his measurements of the Pantheon dome and of other Roman
buildings. Brunelleschi's buildings and Donatello's sculptures are both
considered supreme expressions of the spirit of this era in architecture
and sculpture, and they exercised a potent influence upon the painters of
the age.
Father
Background:
Niccolo di Betto Bardi, a Florentine wool
carder. It is not known how he started his career but probably learned
stone carving from one of the sculptors working for the cathedral of
Florence about 1400.
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..
Conclusion:
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