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.
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SuperAttainer:
Friedrich
Nietzsche
German Philosopher:
Friedrich
Nietzsche
Main
Life Accomplishments:
During
his childhood he seems to have developed an aversion to such things as
piety, nationalism, bourgeois provincialism and domineering women. From
1858 he attended the academically distinguished Pforta boarding school
where he began to suffer from the migraine attacks that were to be a
burden to him for the rest of his life. He was also affected by having
poor eyesight. Pforta had turned out many famous men in the past and was
run along "Prussian" lines of discipline, piety, and hard work.
After (gladly) leaving Pforta in 1864 he studied theology and classical
philology at the university of Bonn he was, however, turning away from the
religious atmosphere in which he had been raised. He transferred his
studies to Leipzig the following year and this time was committed to the
study of classical philology only. Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will
and Idea greatly influenced him during his time at Leipzig!
Nietzsche was considered to be a most particularly brilliant student and
was appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Basel
at the young age of 24 - at which time he had not yet been awarded a
doctoral degree! When his doctoral degree was awarded it was actually
awarded without examination.
Basics:
Born: 15
October 1844 (Röcken bei Lützen, Prussian Province of Saxony)
Died: August
25, 1900 (aged 55) (Weimar, German Empire)
Nationality: German
Fields: Philosophy
Main Accomplishments: German philosopher whose writing was
flamboyant and deliberately provocative, repudiating the whole
Judeo-Christian tradition and liberal ethics.
Chronology
of Life Events:
1844
Born
(15 Oct) at in Röcken, Germany.
1849
Death
of his father, a Lutheran pastor, on July 30.
1850
Family
moves to Naumburg.
1858 - 1864
Attends
boarding school at Schulpforta.
1864
Studies
classical philology at Bonn University.
1865
Continues
studies at Leipzig and accidentally discovers Schopenhauer’s main work
in a second-hand bookstore.
1868
First
meeting with Richard Wagner.
1869
Professor
extraordinarius of classical philology at the University of Basel,
Switzerland.
1869
- 1870
First
lecture course on Pre-Platonic philosophy (no information survives).
1870
Promoted
to full professor. As a Swiss subject, volunteers as a medical orderly in
the Franco-Prussian war and serves briefly with the Prussian forces.
Returns to Basel in October, his health shattered.
1874
Schopenhauer
als Erzieher (“Schopenhauer as Educator”) is published as the third
Untimely Meditation.
1879
Resignation
from the university with pension. Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche (Mixed
Opinions and Maxims) published as Anhang (appendix) of Human, All Too
Human. Summer in St. Moritz in the Engadin.
1889
Nietzsche
becomes insane early in January in Turin. Overbeck, a friend and former
colleague, brings him back to Basel. He is committed to the asylum in
Jena, but soon released in care of his mother, who takes him to Naumburg.
Die Götzen-Dämmerung (Twilight of the Idols), written in 1888, appears
in January.
1897
Nietzsche’s
mother dies. His sister moves him to Weimar.
1900
Dies
(25 August) in Weimar.
Early
Life:
Born
on October 15, 1844, Nietzsche grew up in the small town of Röcken, near
Leipzig, in the Prussian Province of Saxony. He was named after King
Frederick William IV of Prussia, who turned 49 on the day of Nietzsche's
birth. (Nietzsche later dropped his given middle name,
"Wilhelm".) Nietzsche's parents, Carl Ludwig Nietzsche
(1813–1849), a Lutheran pastor and former teacher, and Franziska Oehler
(1826–1897), married in 1843, the year before their son's birth, and had
two other children: a daughter, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, born in
1846, and a second son, Ludwig Joseph, born in 1848. Nietzsche's father
died from a brain ailment in 1849; his younger brother died in 1850. The
family then moved to Naumburg, where they lived with Nietzsche's paternal
grandmother and his father's two unmarried sisters. After the death of
Nietzsche's grandmother in 1856, the family moved into their own house.
Nietzsche
attended a boys' school and later a private school, where he became
friends with Gustav Krug and Wilhelm Pinder, both of whom came from
respected families. In 1854 he began to attend the Domgymnasium in
Naumburg, but after he showed particular talents in music and language,
the internationally-recognized Schulpforta admitted him as a pupil, and
there he continued his studies from 1858 to 1864. Here he became friends
with Paul Deussen and Carl von Gersdorff. He also found time to work on
poems and musical compositions. At Schulpforta, Nietzsche received an
important introduction to literature, particularly that of the ancient
Greeks and Romans, and for the first time experienced a distance from his
family life in a small-town Christian environment.
After graduation in 1864 Nietzsche commenced studies in theology and
classical philology at the University of Bonn. For a short time he and
Deussen became members of the Burschenschaft Frankonia. After one semester
(and to the anger of his mother) he stopped his theological studies and
lost his faith.[3] This may have happened in part due to his reading about
this time of David Strauss' Life of Jesus, which had a profound effect on
the young Nietzsche,[3] though in an essay entitled Fate and History
written in 1862, Nietzsche had already argued that historical research had
discredited the central teachings of Christianity.[4] Nietzsche then
concentrated on studying philology under Professor Friedrich Wilhelm
Ritschl, whom he followed to the University of Leipzig the next year.
There he became close friends with fellow-student Erwin Rohde. Nietzsche's
first philological publications appeared soon after.
In
1865 Nietzsche thoroughly studied the works of Arthur Schopenhauer. In
1866 he read Friedrich Albert Lange's History of Materialism. His
encounter with Schopenhauer's ideas had an influence on him until the end
of his sentient life. Lange's descriptions of Kant's anti-materialistic
philosophy, the rise of European Materialism, Europe's increased concern
with science, Darwin's theory, and the general rebellion against tradition
and authority greatly intrigued Nietzsche. The cultural environment
encouraged him to expand his horizons beyond philology and to continue his
study of philosophy.
In 1867 Nietzsche signed up for one year of voluntary service with the
Prussian artillery division in Naumburg. However, a bad riding accident in
March 1868 left him unfit for service.[5] Consequently Nietzsche turned
his attention to his studies again, completing them and first meeting with
Richard Wagner later that year.
Father
Background:
Karl
Ludwig Nietzsche (b. 1813, d. 30-Jul-1849 brain cancer).
His
father Ludwig, also a minister, died at the age of thirty-six, having
sustained head injuries through a fall about a year previously. Nietzsche
was five years old at the time of his father's death and was raised by his
mother in a home that included his grandmother, two maiden aunts, and a
sister. His father was a Lutheran pastor and former teacher. After his
father's death in 1849, his family went to live with his maternal
grandmother and two of his father's unmarried sisters in Naumburg. When
his grandmother died in 1856, the family moved into their own house.
Mother
Background:
Nietzsche
was five years old at the time of his father's death and was raised by his
mother in a home that included his grandmother, two maiden aunts, and a
sister. After his father's death in 1849, his family went to live with his
maternal grandmother and two of his father's unmarried sisters in Naumburg.
When his grandmother died in 1856, the family moved into their own house.
Her mother died in 1897.
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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