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:
Edwin Hubble
American Scientist:
Edwin
Hubble
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Edwin
Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American
astronomer. He profoundly changed astronomers' understanding of the nature
of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides
the Milky Way. He also discovered that the degree of redshift observed in
light coming from a galaxy increased in proportion to the distance of that
galaxy from the Milky Way. This became known as Hubble's law, and would
help establish that the universe is expanding.
Basics:
Born:
November 20, 1889(1889-11-20) Marshfield, Missouri, U.S.
Died: September 28, 1953 (aged 63) San Marino, California
Nationality: American
Fields: Science
Main Accomplishments: Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer
who made vital contributions to the study of galaxies, establishing the
existence of galaxies outside of the Milky Way and proving that the
universe is expanding.
Chronology
of Life Events:
November
20, 1889
(1889-11-20)
Marshfield, Missouri, U.S.
1920
Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae (Univ. of Chicago Press,
Chicago). [Ph.D. dissertation]
1922
A General Study of Diffuse Galactic Nebulae
February
26, 1924
He
got married with his wife Grace Burke.
1925
NGC 6822, a Remote Stellar System
1926
A Spiral Nebula as a Stellar System
1929
A Spiral Nebula as a Stellar System, Messier 31
1930
Distribution of Luminosity in Elliptical Nebulae
1932
Nebulous Objects in Messier 31 Provisionally Identified as Globular
Clusters
1934
The Distribution of Extra-Galactic Nebulae
1935
Angular Rotations of Spiral Nebulae
1936
The Luminosity Function of Nebulae. I. The Luminosity Function of Resolved
Nebulae as Indicated by Their Brightest Stars
1937
Redshifts and the Distribution of Nebulae
1942
The Problem of Expanding Universe
1943
The Direction of Rotation in Spiral Nebulae
1953
The Law of Red Shifts (Lecture)
September
28, 1953
He
dies (aged 63) San Marino, California
Early
Life:
He
was born to an insurance executive in Marshfield, Missouri and moved to
Wheaton, Illinois in 1889. In his younger days he was noted more for his
athletic prowess than his intellectual abilities, although he did earn
good grades in every subject except for spelling. He won seven first
places and a third place in a single high school track meet in 1906. That
year he also set a state record for high jump in Illinois.
His studies at the University of Chicago concentrated on mathematics,
astronomy, and philosophy which led to a BS degree in 1910. Hubble also
became a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity and in 1948 was named Kappa
Sigma "Man of the Year". He spent the next three years as one of
Oxford's first Rhodes Scholars, where he originally studied jurisprudence,
before switching his major to Spanish and receiving the MA degree, after
which he returned to the United States. Some of his British mannerisms and
dress stayed with him all his life, occasionally irritating his American
colleagues.
Returning to the United States he worked as a high school teacher and a
basketball coach at New Albany High School in New Albany, Indiana (near
Louisville, Kentucky), and was a member of the Kentucky bar, although he
reportedly never actually practiced law in Kentucky.[1] He served in World
War I and quickly advanced to the rank of major. He returned to astronomy
at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, where he earned a
PhD in 1917 with a dissertation entitled "Photographic Investigations
of Faint Nebulae".
In 1919 Hubble was offered a staff position by George Ellery Hale, the
founder and director of Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory,
near Pasadena, California, where he remained until his death. He also
served in the US Army at the Aberdeen Proving Ground during World War II.
For his work there he received the Legion of Merit. Shortly before his
death, Palomar's 200-inch Hale Telescope was completed; Hubble was the
first to use it. Hubble continued his researches at the Mount Wilson and
Palomar Observatories, where he remained active until his death.
Hubble died of a cerebral thrombosis on September 28, 1953, in San Marino,
California. No funeral was held and his wife, Grace, did not reveal what
happened to his body.
Wife
Background:
Grace
Hubble was a faithful chronicler of Hubble's life during their marriage
and after his death. In diaries and journals, she described daily
happenings at home in San Marino, Calif., and vacations in Colorado,
Arizona, the East Coast, Great Britain, and Europe. These diaries discuss
the Hubbles' activities, friends, acquaintances, and people they met on
their travels. After Hubble's death, Mrs. Hubble prepared rough
biographical memoirs of her husband. Divided into topical chapters, the
notes and short essays include transcripts of some early Hubble
correspondence which is not available elsewhere in the collection. These
journals and memoirs supplement the more public record of Hubble's life
provided by his own papers.
Father
Background:
His
father was John Powell Hubble, from Missouri, where Edwin himself was born
in Marshfield on November 20, l889, during a visit of the parents to his
grandparents.
John
P. Hubble, an agent in a fire insurance firm.
Mother
Background:
Virginia
Lee James Hubble, a descendant of the American colonist Miles Standish.
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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1.
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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