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:
Mother Teresa
Religious
Leader:
Mother
Teresa
Main
Life Accomplishments:
She
had become internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the
poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something
Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in
1979 and India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her
humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to
expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123
countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy
and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling
programs, orphanages, and schools.
Basics:
Born: August
26, 1910(1910-08-26), Üsküp, Ottoman Empire (today's Skopje, Republic of
Macedonia)
Died: 5 September 1997 (aged 87), Calcutta, India
Nationality: Albanian till 1948, Indian from 1948
Religion: Roman Catholic
Fields: Religion
Main Accomplishments: She founded the Missionaries of Charity
in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over forty five years she
ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the
Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in
other countries.
Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the
title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Chronology
of Life Events:
Aug
27 1910
Born
as Agnes Gionxhu Bejuxhiu in Skopje in the former Yugoslavia.
1928
Becomes
Roman Catholic Loretto nun and begins noviate training in Loretto Abbey,
Dublin, Ireland. Takes name Sister Teresa.
1929
Arrives
in Calcutta, India, teaches geography at St. Mary's High School.
1937
Takes
final vows as a nun.
Sep
1946
On a train to Darjeeling, to recover from suspected tuberculosis,
receives
calling to serve among the poor. Leaves the convent to serve the poor in
Calcutta.
1947
Permitted
to leave order and moves to slums to start school.
1948
Transfers
her citizenship from Yugoslavia to India. Left the convent to
work alone in the slums. Receives medical training in Paris.
1950
Founds
the Missionaries of Charity.
1952
Opens
Nirmal Hriday ("Pure Heart"), home for the dying.
1953
Opens
orphanage.
1957
Begins
her work with lepers for which her order becomes well known around the
world.
1958
Order's
first facility outside of Calcutta opens in Drachi, India.
1962
Wins
first prize for work among the poor: Padma Shri award.
1965
The
Catholic Church grants the order permission to organize missions outside
of India. The first opens that year in Venezuela.
1971
Receives
the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and uses the $25,000 to build a leper
colony.
1979
Awarded
Nobel Peace Prize for work with destitute and dying.
1982
Persuades
the Israelis and Palestinians to cease fire long enough to rescue 37
retarded children from Beirut.
1983
Has
heart attack while visiting Pope John Paul II.
1985
Awarded
Medal of Freedom.
1989
Suffers
second heart attack, fitted with pacemaker.
1990
Re-elected
superior general of her order of the Missionaries for Charity, despite her
wish to step down.
1992
Enters
the hospital in La Jolla, California for treatment of pneumonia and
congestive heart failure.
1993
Falls
and breaks three ribs in May, hospitalized for malaria in August,
undergoes surgery for blocked blood vessel in September.
1996
Falls
and breaks collarbone in April, suffers malarial fever and left ventricle
failure in August, receives honorary citizenship on November sixteenth.
March
13, 1997
Steps
down as the head of her order, is succeeded by Sister Nirnala
September
5, 1997
Dies
of a massive heart attack in Calcutta at the age of 87.
Early
Life:
Agnes
Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, now the capital of
the Republic of Macedonia. Although she was born on August 26, 1910, she
considered August 27, 1910, the day she was baptized, to be her "true
birthday." (2002). "Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)".
Vatican News Service. Retrieved May 30, 2007. Although some sources state
that she was 10 when her father died, in an interview with her brother,
the Vatican documents her age at the time as "about eight". She
was the youngest of the children of a family from Shkodër, Albania, born
to Kolë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu ( Albanian Dranafile for "rose",nicknamed
"Drone"). Her father, Kolë Bojaxhiu was involved in Albanian
politics. In 1919, after a political meeting, which left Skopje out of
Albania) he fell ill and died when Anjeza was about eight years old.[8]
After her father's death, her mother raised her as a Roman Catholic.
According to a biography by Joan Graff Clucas, in her early years Agnes
was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service,
and by age 12 was convinced that she should commit herself to a religious
life. She left home at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a
missionary. She never again saw her mother or sister.
Agnes initially went to the Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland to learn
English, the language the Sisters of Loreto used to teach school children
in India. She arrived in India in 1929, and began her novitiate in
Darjeeling, near the Himalayan mountains. She took her first religious
vows as a nun on May 24, 1931. At that time she chose the name Teresa
after Thérèse de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries. She took her
solemn vows on May 14, 1937, while serving as a teacher at the Loreto
convent school in eastern Calcutta.
Although Teresa enjoyed teaching at the school, she was increasingly
disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta. A famine in
1943 brought misery and death to the city; and the outbreak of
Hindu/Muslim violence in August 1946 plunged the city into despair and
horror.
Father
Background:
Her
father, Kolë Bojaxhiu was involved in Albanian politics. In 1919, after a
political meeting, which left Skopje out of Albania) he fell ill and died
when Anjeza was about eight years old.
Mother
Background:
Her
mother, a devoutly religious woman, to open an embroidery and cloth
business to support the family.
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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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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