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:
Vo
Nguyen Giap
Vietnamese Military Leader:
Vo
Nguyen Giap
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Vietnamese
general and statesman. Principal wars: First Indochina War (1946-1954) and
Second Indochina War (1960-1975). Principal battles: Lang Son (1950); Hoa
Binh (1951-1952); Dien Bien Phu (1954); Tet Offensive (1968); the Nguyen
Hue Offensive (known in the West as the Easter Offensive) (1972); and the
final Ho Chi Minh Campaign (1975). Giap was also a journalist; served as
Interior Minister of in President Hồ Chí Minh's Viet Minh
government; was military commander of the Viet Minh; commander of the
People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN); Defense Minister; and Politburo member of
the Lao Dong Party.
Basics:
Born:
Born circa 1912in
An Xa, Quảng
B́nh province, Vietnam
Nationality: Vietnamese
Fields: Military, Politics
Main Accomplishments: Famous leader of North Vietnamese
military forces for over thirty years. He came in decisive battle of Dien
Bien Phu, which ended that war in 1954.
Chronology
of Life Events:
1911
Birth
of Vo Nguyen Giap
1925
Giáp
became a messenger for the Haiphong Power Company
1930
Vơ Nguyên Giáp was arrested
1931
He joined the Communist Party
1933
Giáp enrolled in Hà Nội University.
1939
He married Nguyen Thi Quang Thi, another socialist,
1944
He returned to Vietnam
1945
He helped organize resistance to the Japanese occupation forces.
Mar
13, 1954
Giáp launched his offensive
1968
Giap
was mainly responsible for the massive casualties incurred by NLF and PAVN
troops during the Tet Offensive
Jul
1976
Giáp
maintained his position as Defense Minister and was made Deputy Prime
Minister
1980
He was removed from this post at the Defense Ministry
1982
He was also removed from his position in the Politburo
Early
Life:
Vơ
Nguyên Giáp was born in the village of An Xa, Quảng B́nh
province. His father and mother, Vo Quang Nghiem and Nguyen Thi Kien,
worked the land, rented some to neighbors, and lived a relatively
comfortable lifestyle. At 14, Giáp became a messenger for the Haiphong
Power Company and shortly thereafter joined the Tân Việt Cách
Mạng Đảng, a romantically-styled revolutionary youth
group. Two years later he entered Quốc Học, a French-run lycée
in Huế, from which two years later, according to his own account, he
was expelled for organizing a student strike. In 1933, at the age of
twenty-one, Giáp enrolled in Hà Nội University.
Giáp was educated at the University of Hanoi where he gained a bachelor's
degree in political economy and a law degree. After graduation, he taught
history for one year at the Thang Long School in Hanoi. During most of
1930s, Giáp remained a schoolteacher and journalist, writing articles for
Tien Dang while actively participating in various revolutionary movements.
He joined the Communist Party in 1931 and took part in several
demonstrations against French rule in Indochina as well as assisting in
founding the Democratic Front in 1933. All the while, Giap was a dedicated
reader of military history and philosophy, revering Napoleon I and Sun
Tzu.
Vơ Nguyên Giáp was arrested in 1930 and served 13 months of a two-year
sentence at Lao Bao Prison. During the Popular Front years in France, he
founded Hon Tre Tap Moi, an underground socialist newspaper. He also
founded the French language paper Le Travail (on which Pham Van Dong also
worked). He married Nguyen Thi Quang Thi, another socialist, in 1939. When
France outlawed communism during the same year, Giáp fled to China
together with Phạm Văn Đồng where he joined up with
Hồ Chí Minh, the leader of the Vietnam Independence League (Việt
Minh). While he was in exile, his wife, sister, father & sister-in-law
were captured and executed.
He returned to Vietnam in 1944, and between then and 1945 he helped
organize resistance to the Japanese occupation forces. When the Japanese
surrendered to the Allies in August 1945, the Japanese decided to allow
nationalist groups to take over public buildings while keeping the French
in prison as a way of causing additional trouble to the Allies in the
postwar period. The Việt Minh and other groups took over various
towns and formed a provisional government in which Giap was named Minister
of the Interior.
In September, 1945, Hồ Chí Minh announced the formation of the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Unknown to the Việt Minh, President
Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph
Stalin had already decided the future of post-war Vietnam at a summit
meeting at Potsdam. They agreed that the country would be occupied
temporarily to get the Japanese out; the northern half would be under the
control of the Nationalist Chinese and the southern half under the
British.
After
the Second World War, France attempted to re-establish control over
Vietnam. In January 1946, Great Britain agreed to remove her troops, and,
later that year, the Chinese left Vietnam in exchange for a promise from
France that she would give up her rights to territory in China.
Wife
Background:
Her
wife died on 1939, She
was executed while Vo Nguyen Giap was in exile.
Father
Background:
Father
named Vo quang Nghiem. He was literate and was a teacher of
Sino-Vietnamese [writing] and of Quoc Nhu [the Romanized Vietnamese
language developed by Alexandre de Rhodes, the Jesuit missionary priest.
He also treated diseases with traditional medicines, but when his daughter
died from dysentery, he gave up this profession.
Vo
Quang Nghiem worked the land, rented some to neighbors, and lived a
relatively comfortable lifestyle
Mother
Background:
Nguyen
Thi Kien She was the daughter of a member of the Can Vuong [Save the King]
Resistance movement, a patriotic effort at the end of the nineteenth
century to support the emperor against French colonialism. Although
illiterate, she was able to recite poems by heart such as Kim van Kieu,
Nhi Do Mai, Tong Chan Cue Hoa, and others. Passionately fond of Vietnamese
history, she was delighted to tell the stories of the Can Vuong Resistance
movement with all the vicissitudes it brought upon our people. She told
these stories first to her children, and then to her grandchildren.
She
was a housekeeper, and in charge of the familial farm. (His father was
often away.) She stayed active until her death at age 84. She was
passionately fond of plants, most happy when she could cultivate
[something green] on her small piece of ground.
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?
REFERENCES:
1.
3. Conceited
What are the actions and documented statements that exhibit an elevated
sense of self importance of the SuperAttainer?
REFERENCES:
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?
REFERENCES:
1.
6. Mentored &
Motivated
Who was vital to developing the SuperAttainer and guiding his career and
what significant actions were taken?
REFERENCES:
1.
7. Discontent
What evidence is there that the SuperAttainer was unsatisfied with even
great personal accomplishment?
REFERENCES:
1.
8. Promoted
What actions or events were responsible for publicizing the tremendous
achievements and abilities of the SuperAttainer?
REFERENCES:
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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