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:
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese Political and Military Leader:
Ho
Chi Minh
Main
Life Accomplishments:
He
was a Communist, Marxist-Leninist Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman,
who later became prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1946–1969)
of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
Ho led the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing
the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and
defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu.
Basics:
Born: May
19, 1890(1890-05-19), Nghệ An Province, Vietnam
Died: September 2, 1969 (aged 79), Hanoi, Vietnam
Nationality: Vietnamese
Religion:
Fields: Politics, Military
Main Accomplishments: He married nationalism to communism and
perfected the deadly art of guerrilla warfare
Chronology
of Life Events:
May
19, 1890
Birth
of Ho Chi Minh
5
June 1911
Hồ
Chí Minh left Vietnam on a French steamer, Amiral Latouche-Tréville,
working as a kitchen helper.
1912
Again
working as the cook's helper on a ship, Hồ Chí Minh traveled to the
United States
1912
to 1913
He
lived in New York (Harlem) and Boston, where he worked as a baker at the
Parker House Hotel.
1919–1923
While
living in France, Hồ Chí Minh embraced communism, through his
friend Marcel Cachin
1921
During
the Congress of Tours, France, Nguyen Ai Quoc became a founding member of
the Parti Communiste Français (French Communist Party) and spent much of
his time in Moscow afterwards, becoming the Comintern's Asia hand and the
principal theorist on colonial warfare.
1923
Hồ
left Paris for Moscow, where he was employed by the Comintern
June
1924
Participated
in the Fifth Comintern Congress
1925-26
He
organized 'Youth Education Classes' and occasionally gave lectures at the
Whampoa Military Academy on the revolutionary movement in Indochina.
April
1927
He
left Canton again,and returned to Moscow, spending some of the summer of
1927 recuperating from tuberculosis in the Crimea, before returning to
Paris once more in November.
July
1928
He
then returned to Asia by way of Brussels, Berlin, Switzerland, Italy, from
where he took a ship to Bangkok in Thailand
1929
He
remained in Thailand, staying in the Thai village of Nachok
June 1931 he was arrested in Hong Kong and incarcerated by British police
until his release in 1933.
1938
He
returned to China and served as an adviser with Chinese Communist armed
forces.
1941
Hồ
returned to Vietnam to lead the Việt Minh independence movement.
1945
After
the August Revolution organized by the Việt Minh, Hồ became
Chairman of the Provisional Government (Premier of the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam) and issued a declaration of independence that borrowed much
from the French and American declarations.
September
2, 1945
After
Emperor Bao Dai's abdication, Hồ Chí Minh read the Declaration of
Independence of Vietnam,[14] under the name of the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam. With violence between rival Vietnamese factions and French forces
spiraling, the British commander, General Sir Douglas Gracey declared
martial law.
September
24
The
Viet Minh leaders responded with a call for a general strike.[15]
September
1945
A
force of 200,000 Chinese Nationalists arrived in Hanoi. Hồ Chí Minh
made arrangement with their general, Lu Han, to dissolve the Communist
Party and to hold an election which would yield a coalition government.
March
6, 1946
When
Chiang Kai-Shek later traded Chinese influence in Vietnam for French
concessions in Shanghai, Hồ Chí Minh had no choice but to sign an
agreement with France,in which Vietnam would be recognized as an
autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. The
agreement soon broke down.
February
1950
Hồ
met with Stalin and Mao in Moscow after the Soviet Union recognized his
government. They all agreed that China would be responsible for backing
the Viet Minh
1954
After
the important defeat of French paratroopers at the Battle of Điện
Biên Phủ, France was forced to give up its empire in Indochina.
1956
The
1954 Geneva Accords, concluded between France and the Vietminh, provided
that communist forces regroup in the North and non-communist forces
regroup in the South. Ho's Democratic Republic of Vietnam relocated to
Hanoi and became the government of North Vietnam, a Communist-led single
party state. The Geneva accords also provided for a national election to
reunify the country but this provision was rejected by South Vietnam and
the United States.
1957
Lê
Duẩn was appointed acting party boss and began sending aid to the
Vietcong insurgency in South Vietnam. This represented a loss of power by
Hồ, who is said to have preferred the more moderate Giáp for the
position.
1959
The
so called Hochiminh Trail was built, to allow aid to be sent to the
Vietcong through Laos and Cambodia, thus escalating the war.
1960
Duẩn
was named permanent party boss¸
1964
North
Vietnamese combat troops were sent southwest into neutral Laos.
September 2, 1969 With the outcome of the Vietnam War still in question,
Ho Chi Minh died on the morning of September 2, 1969, at his home in Hanoi
at age 79 from heart failure.
Early
Life:
Hồ
Chí Minh was born, as Nguyễn Sinh Cung, in 1890 in Hoàng Trù
Village, his mother's hometown. From 1895, he grew up in his paternal
hometown of Kim Liên Village, Nam Đàn District, Nghệ An
Province, Vietnam. He had three siblings, his sister Bạch Liên (or
Nguyễn Thị Thanh), a clerk in the French Army, his brother
Nguyễn Sinh Khiêm (or Nguyễn Tất Đạt), a
geomancer and traditional herbalist, and another brother (Nguyễn
Sinh Nhuận) who died in his infancy. Following Confucian traditions,
at the age of 10 his father named him Nguyễn Tất Thành (Nguyễn
the Accomplished). Ho's father, Nguyễn Sinh Sắc, was a
Confucian scholar, small time teacher and later an imperial magistrate in
a small remote district Binh Khe (Qui Nhon). He was later sacked for
torturing a peasant to death during his drunkenness. Different to his
father, Ho were with french education, attended lycée in Huế, the
alma mater of his later disciples, Phạm Văn Đồng and Vơ
Nguyên Giáp. He later left his studies and chose to teach at Dục
Thanh school in Phan Thiết.
Father
Background:
His
father, Nguyen Sinh Huy was a teacher employed by the French. He had a
reputation for being extremely intelligent but his unwillingness to learn
the French language resulted in the loss of his job. To survive, Nguyen
Sinh Huy was forced to travel throughout Vietnam, offering his services to
the peasants. This usually involved writing letters and providing medical
care.
As a nationalist, Nguyen taught his children to resist the rule of the
French. Not surprisingly, they all grew up to be committed nationalists
willing to fight for Vietnamese independence.
Mother
Background:
Ho's
mother was thrown in jail for stealing weapons from a French barracks
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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1.
4. Hard-Knocked
During what events did the SuperAttainer experience personal misery and
severe anxiety?
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1.
5. Loner
Is there evidence of the SuperAttainer being comfortable spending time apart
from others?
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1.
6. Mentored &
Motivated
Who was vital to developing the SuperAttainer and guiding his career and
what significant actions were taken?
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1.
7. Discontent
What evidence is there that the SuperAttainer was unsatisfied with even
great personal accomplishment?
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1.
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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