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:
Niels Bohr
Danish Physicist:
Niels
Bohr
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Niels
Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to
understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he
received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and
collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his
institute in Copenhagen. He was also part of the team of physicists
working on the Manhattan Project. Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund in 1912,
and one of their sons, Aage Niels Bohr, grew up to be an important
physicist who, like his father, received the Nobel prize, in 1975. Bohr
has been described as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th
century.
Basics:
Born:
7 October 1885(1885-10-07) Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: 18 November 1962 (aged 77) Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality: Danish
Religion: Jewish
Fields: Science
Main Accomplishments: Proposed theory of evolution via
natural selection.
Chronology
of Life Events:
October
7, 1885
Niels
Bohr Born in Copenhagen, Denmark
1895
J.J.
Thomson discovers the electron, the extremely light, negatively charged
particles
orbiting inside the atom which give it its chemical properties.
1896
First
Nobel Prizes Established. "Near the end of the nineteenth century
many physicists
believed that physical theory had been virtually completely
discovered." Website:
1900
Quantum
Theory - Energy as Discrete Packets
Max Planck discovers that heat energy is not continuously variable, as
classical physics assumes.
There is a smallest common coin in the currency, the quantum, and all
transactions are in
multiples of it.
1905
Einstein's
Photoelectric Effect
Albert Einstein realizes that light, too, has to be understood not only as
waves but as quantum
particles, later known as photons.
"Einstein sent to the Annalen der Physik, the leading German physics
journal, a paper with a new
understanding of the structure of light...." Website:
December
5, 1901
Werner
Heisenberg Born in Wurzburg, Germany
1910
Ernest
Rutherford shows that the electrons orbit around a tiny nucleus, in which
almost the entire mass of the atom is concentrated.
"By
the early 20th century, there was rather compelling evidence that matter
could be described
by an atomic theory....
May
1911
Bohr
Receives Doctorate from University of Copenhagen
August
1, 1912
Niels
Bohr and Margrethe Norlund married in a brief civil ceremony. Their
marriage would produce six sons.
1913
Niels
Bohr realizes that quantum theory applies to matter itself. The orbits of
the electrons about the nucleus are limited to a number of separate whole
number possibilities, so that the atom can exist only in a number of
distinct and definite states.
June
28, 1914
Archduke
Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo. World War I begins, casualties quickly
mount.
18
November 1962
He
died (aged 77) Copenhagen, Denmark
Early
Life:
Niels
Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1885. His father,
Christian Bohr, a devout Lutheran, was professor of physiology at the
University of Copenhagen (it is his name which is given to the Bohr
shift), while his mother, Ellen Adler Bohr, came from a wealthy Jewish
family prominent in Danish banking and parliamentary circles. His brother
was Harald Bohr, a mathematician and Olympic soccer player who played on
the Danish national team. Niels Bohr was a passionate soccer player as
well, and the two brothers played a number of matches for Akademisk
Boldklub.
Bohr studied as an undergraduate, graduate and, under Christian
Christiansen, as a doctoral student at Copenhagen University, receiving
his doctorate in 1911. As a post-doctoral student, Bohr first conducted
experiments under J. J. Thomson at Trinity College, Cambridge. He then
went on to study under Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester
in England. On the basis of Rutherford's theories, Bohr published his
model of atomic structure in 1913, introducing the theory of electrons
traveling in orbits around the atom's nucleus, the chemical properties of
the element being largely determined by the number of electrons in the
outer orbits. Bohr also introduced the idea that an electron could drop
from a higher-energy orbit to a lower one, emitting a photon (light
quantum) of discrete energy. This became a basis for quantum theory.
Niels Bohr and his wife Margrethe Nørlund had six children. Two died
young, and most of the others went on to lead successful lives. One, Aage
Niels Bohr, also became a very successful physicist; like his father, he
won a Nobel Prize in 1975.
Wife
Background:
Margrethe
Norlund grew up the daughter of a pharmacist in the small Danish town of
Slagelse, some 50 miles south-west of Copenhagen. She was studying French
for a private teacher's certificate, when in 1910 she met the brothers
Niels and Harald Bohr, friends of her own brothers. A year later she was
engaged to Niels, and in 1912 they were married in a brief civil ceremony.
They had six sons.
After
Niels Bohr's death, a friend of the family spoke about Margrethe and Niels'
marriage: "It was not luck, rather deep insight, which led him to
find in young years his wife, who, as we all know, had such a decisive
role in making his whole scientific and personal activity possible and
harmonious."
In 1984, thirty-one years after the death of her beloved Niels, Margrethe
Bohr passed away at the age of 95.
She is buried with her husband in Copenhagen.
Father
Background:
Christian
Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr (1855-1911, both in Copenhagen) was a
Danish physician, and father of the famous physicist Niels Bohr, as well
as the famous mathematician Harald Bohr. He married Ellen Adler in 1881.
In
1891, he was the first to characterize dead space.
In 1904, Christian Bohr described the phenomenon, now called the Bohr
effect, whereby hydrogen ions and carbon dioxide heterotropically decrease
hemoglobin's oxygen-binding affinity. This regulation increases the
efficiency of oxygen release by hemoglobin in tissues, like active muscle
tissue, where rapid metabolization has produced relatively high
concentrations of hydrogen ions and carbon dioxide.
Christian
Bohr is buried in the Assistens Kirkegård.
Mother
Background:
Ellen
Adler Bohr, mother of Niels Bohr, a woman from a wealthy Jewish family
prominent in Danish banking and parliamentary circles.
SuperAttainer
ANALYSIS
SECTION:
1. Early Success
When
did the SuperAttainer first display ability that was greatly above average
and what were his accomplishments?
REFERENCES:
1.
2. Contrarian
What actions did the SuperAttainer take that demonstrated a mindset that was
very different from those around him?
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1.
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?
REFERENCES:
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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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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