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:
Walt Disney
Founder
of Walt Disney Pictures:
Walt
Disney
Main
Life Accomplishments:
Walter
Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer,
director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and
philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of
entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his
brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of
the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he
co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual
revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular
showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He
and his staff created a number of the world's most famous fictional
characters, including the one many consider Disney's alter ego, Mickey
Mouse. He received fifty-nine Academy Award nominations and won twenty-six
Oscars, including a record four in one year, and thus holds the record for
the individual with the most awards and the most nominations. He also won
seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World
Resort theme parks in the United States, Japan, France, and China.
Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, a few years prior to the
opening of his Walt Disney World Resort dream project in Florida.
Basics:
Born:
December 5, 1901 Chicago, Illinois
Died:
December 15, 1966 (aged 65) Burbank, California
Religion:
Congregationalist
Nationality: American
Fields: Business
Main Accomplishments: An American film maker and
entrepreneur, Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) created a new kind of
popular culture in feature-length animated cartoons and live-action
"family" films.
Chronology
of Life Events:
1901
Walt
Disney was born on the 5th of December 1901.Elias Disney, his father, was
an Irish Canadian and Flora Call Disney, his mother, was a
German-American. Walt was one of the five children of Elias and Flora.
1910
The
Disneys moved to Kansas City. Walt attended the Benton Grammar School,
where he met Walter Pfeiffer. The Pfeiffers, who were theatre buffs,
introduced Walt to the world of motion pictures. Walt began to love this
new world.
1917
Walt’s
family migrated to Chicago. While in high school, Walt started taking
courses at the Chicago Art Institute. He wanted to join the Army but was
rejected, as he was only sixteen. Then Walt joined the Red Cross after
which, he was sent to France. He worked as an ambulance driver there.
1920
In
January, he along with the cartoonist, Ubbe Iwerks, established the Iwerks-Disney
Commercial Artists Company.
1923
Walt
moved to Hollywood with a plan in his mind to become a director. In the
October of the same year, Walt and his brother Roy sighed a contract with
M.J. Winkler, a cartoon distributor in New York.
1925
Walt
hired a young lady named Lillian Bounds as an inker. They ended up
marrying each other during the same year.
1926
Disney
renamed his studio. Now it would be called the Walt Disney Studio.
1927
The
studio created the series Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Mintz distribution
acquired all the rights of ‘Oswald’.
1928
Walt
Disney’s imagination gave birth to Mickey Mouse. The cartoons ‘Plane
Crazy’ and ‘Steamboat Willie’ followed. In November 1928, the Colon
Theater in New York showcased Steamboat Willie. It was the first animated
cartoon with sound and gained a positive response from the audience. Walt
Disney had become popular by this time with all the companies wanting the
rights to Mickey Mouse.
1930
Disney
signed a distribution contract with Columbia Pictures.
1932
Flowers
and Trees’, a Silly Symphonies cartoon done in Technicolor, won the
Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. Walt Disney owned the
rights to use Technicolor. Disney received a special award for his Mickey
Mouse during the same year.
1933
The
cartoon called ‘The Three Little Pigs’ became a phenomenal success.
1934
In
the cartoon, Orphan’s Benefit, Donald Duck was introduced into the
Mickey Mouse world. Donald Duck became the second most popular in
Disney’s creations.
1938
Snow
White was released under a deal with RKO Radio Pictures. The film was a
huge success and earned an amount of $8 million. Snow White brought in the
Golden Age of Animation for Disney.
1940
During
the late 1940s, Disney continued the work on ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and
‘Peter Pan’ and commenced work on ‘Cinderella’. He had been to
Chicago in the late 1940s. There he sketched his ideas for an amusement
park, deriving inspiration from the Children’s Fairyland in Oakland,
California. This idea was later expanded to design what is now known as
Disneyland!
1949
The
popularity of Donald Duck increased to a great extent and Donald replaced
Mickey as Disney’s star character.
1950
Treasure
Island’ and ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ were produced. ‘One
Hour In Wonderland’ was featured on television.
1955
Mickey
Mouse Club’ became the first daily television show. On September 8,
1955, Disneyland was proud to welcome its one-millionth visitor!
1960
Walt
Disney was the Head of Pageantry for the Winter Olympics of that year.
1964
Mary
Poppins’ became the most popular Disney film of the 1960s. It received
nominations for 13 academic awards.
1966
On
November 30, Disney was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital owing to his
weakness. On December 15, Walt Disney died of lung cancer.
Early
Life:
Walt
Disney was born to Elias Disney an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora
Call Disney, who was of German-American descent. Walt Disney's ancestors
had emigrated from Gowran, County Kilkenny in Ireland. Arundel Elias
Disney, great-grandfather of Walt Disney was born in Kilkenny, Ireland in
1801 and was a descendant of Hughes and his son Robert d'Isigny (France)
who settled in England with William the Conquereor in 1066.
His father Elias Disney moved from Huron County, Ontario to the United
States in 1878, seeking first for gold in California but finally farming
with his parents near Ellis, Kansas until 1884. He worked for Union
Pacific Railroad and married Flora Call on January 1, 1888 in Acron,
Florida. The family moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890, where his brother
Robert lived. For most of his early life, Robert helped Elias financially.
In 1906, when Walt was four, Elias and his family moved to a farm in
Marceline, Missouri, where his brother Roy had recently purchased
farmland. While in Marceline, Disney developed his love for drawing. One
of their neighbours, a retired doctor named "Doc" Sherwood, paid
him to draw pictures of Sherwood's horse, Rupert. He also developed his
love for trains in Marceline, which owed its existence to the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway which ran through town. Walt would put his ear
to the tracks in anticipation of the coming train. Then he would look for
his uncle, engineer Michael Martin, running the train.
The Disneys remained in Marceline for four years,[8] before moving to
Kansas City in 1911. There, Walt and his sister Ruth attended the Benton
Grammar School where he met Walter Pfeiffer. The Pfeiffers were theatre
aficionados, and introduced Walt to the world of vaudeville and motion
pictures. Soon, Walt was spending more time at the Pfeiffers' than at
home.
Wife
Background:
Lillian
Marie Bounds (February 15, 1899 – December 16, 1997) was the wife of
Walt Disney from 1925 until his death in 1966. She later married John L.
Truyens in 1969 and remained married to him until his death in 1981.
Lillian
and Walt Disney married in 1925 in Idaho at her parents' house, however,
Walt's parents could not attend. She wore a dress which she had made
herself. Her cousin recalled that she giggled nervously throughout the
service. She and Walt had two daughters - Diane Marie Disney and Sharon
Mae Disney, the latter of whom was adopted. She was the aunt of Roy Edward
Disney and had seven grandchildren, Chris Miller, Joanna Miller, Tamara
Scheer, Jennifer Miller-Goff, Walter Elias Disney Miller, Ronald Miller
and Victoria Brown.
Her filmography includes work as an ink artist on the film Plane Crazy.
She is credited with having named her husband's most famous character,
Mickey Mouse, during a train trip from New York to California in 1928.
Walt showed a drawing of the cartoon mouse to his wife and told her that
he was going to name it "Mortimer Mouse". She replied that the
name sounded "too baby like" and she was very proud to have
suggested the name "Mickey Mouse" instead of Mortimer.
Father
Background:
Elias
Disney (February 6, 1859 – September 13, 1941) was the father of Walt
Disney.
Elias
was born in the rural village of Bluevale, Ontario, Canada, to Irish-born
immigrants Kepple Disney and Mary Richardson. He became a farmer and a
businessman with little success. Elias moved to California with his father
in 1878 in hopes of finding gold. Instead, Kepple was convinced by an
agent of the Union Pacific Railroad to buy 200 acres (800,000 m²) of land
near Ellis, Kansas. Elias was a ardent socialist and a supporter of Eugene
Debs.
Mother
Background:
Flora
Call Disney (April 22, 1868 – November 26, 1938) was the mother of Walt
Disney and his brother Roy.
Flora
died in 1938 in an accident that plagued her son Walt with guilt for the
rest of his life. After the success of their film Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, Walt and Roy presented their parents with a new home in North
Hollywood, near the Disney studios in Burbank, California. Less than a
month after moving in, Flora complained to Walt and Roy of problems with
the gas furnace in her new home. Studio repairmen were sent to the house,
but the problem was not adequately fixed. Flora wrote a letter to her
daughter Ruth describing the wonderful new home, but again complaining of
the fumes from the furnace. A few days later, Flora died of asphyxiation
caused by the faulty furnace.
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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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?
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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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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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