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    Remarkable Visitors to Aotearoa New Zealand: The Remarkables
    Remarkable Visitors to Aotearoa New Zealand: The Remarkables
    Remarkable Visitors to Aotearoa New Zealand: The Remarkables
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    Remarkable Visitors to Aotearoa New Zealand: The Remarkables

    By Stewart Forsyth

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    This volume of the Remarkables series introduces a range of people who have dropped in and connected with Kiwis.  All are examples of people who have achieved much.  In these short biographies we explore how they did that.  Their adventures and their unique approaches provide clues to all of us who want to live a rich and fulfilling life.

    The first visitor to Aotearoa (New Zealand) was the legendary navigator Kupe.  Some 500 years later than Kupe (1769) James Cook arrived, accompanied by the great navigator Tupaia.  Their meeting with the local Māori did not always go well. Cook had a disconcerting inflexibility that made managing conflict difficult.  Tupaia's diplomatic skills helped smooth some of these issues.

    Serious western exploitation was beginning when Charles Darwin arrived in 1835.  He wanted to be home in England, but the hospitality of the English missionaries provided some respite.

    Jean Batten flew to Auckland from England in 1936.  This was a return journey, she epitomised a great New Zealand tradition of leaving the country.

    New Zealand is the world's newest country in terms of human settlement.  It is the oldest in terms of its isolation and the development of a remarkable range of birdlife.  Sirocco is a unique example of the kakapo – a large, flightless, nocturnal, rugby-ball shaped parrot. Sirocco has the endearing habit of climbing up and attempting to mate with humans he meets.  Stephen Fry provides a spectator's view of Sirocco doing his thing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStewart Forsyth
    Release dateDec 15, 2020
    ISBN9780473555399
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      Remarkable Visitors to Aotearoa New Zealand - Stewart Forsyth

      ISBN 978-0-473-55539-9

      Introduction

      This volume of the Remarkables series introduces a range of people who have dropped in and connected with Kiwis. All are examples of people who have achieved much. In these short biographies we explore how they did that. Their adventures and their unique approaches provide clues to all of us who want to live a rich and fulfilling life.

      The first visitor to Aotearoa (New Zealand) was the legendary navigator Kupe. Accompanied by Ngaki (or Ngahue) in another canoe, he found the land while chasing an octopus. His legacy lives on in the names of islands and land around Raukawakawa (Cook Straight) and the Hokianga¹. Kupe can still be seen – surveying Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington harbour) from the waterfront, along with his wife Kuramārōtini (who gave us the name of our country).

      Kupe was possibly inspired by Polynesian folk hero Māui. Sailing out of sight of land for weeks² it would have been comforting to know that Māui, who is credited with fishing habitable islands up out of the sea, had previously shown the Polynesian people (and their ancestors) the way east (and north and south).

      The peopling of the Pacific by the Polynesians represents the final and most ambitious thrust of human colonisation in terms of distances covered – from the Tongan and Samoan island groups north to Hawaii, east to Rapanui (Easter Island, and on to the coast of South and Central America) and south to New Zealand via Hawaiki. Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith provides startling evidence for the nature of this first colonisation.

      Some 500 years later than Kupe (1769) James Cook arrived, accompanied by the great navigator Tupaia. Their meeting with the local Māori did not always go well. Cook had a disconcerting inflexibility that made managing conflict difficult. Tupaia’s diplomatic skills helped smooth some of these issues.

      Serious western exploitation was beginning when Charles Darwin arrived in 1835. He wanted to be home in England, but the hospitality of the English missionaries provided some respite.

      Jean Batten flew to Auckland from England in 1936. This was a return journey, she epitomised a great New Zealand tradition of leaving the country.

      New Zealand is the world’s newest country in terms of human settlement. It is the oldest in terms of its isolation and the development of a remarkable range of birdlife. Sirocco is a unique example of the kakapo – a large, flightless, nocturnal, rugby-ball shaped parrot. Sirocco has the endearing habit of climbing up and attempting to mate with humans he meets. Stephen Fry provides a spectator’s view of Sirocco doing his thing.

      We use the ‘Big Five’ personality framework to illustrate the uniqueness of each of these remarkable leaders. The next section provides an introduction to the Big Five.

      The World’s Fastest Personality Test

      Use the descriptions to position yourself on these five dimensions – put yourself closer to the descriptions that describe you best:

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      We don’t pay so much attention to your middle of the road ratings – what makes you unique is where you are furthest out

      Take the two most far out ratings – they can be low – as in towards the left, or high – leaning right. To get a view of what makes you special – pick out the two that are stretching furthest from the middle. Look at the table on the next page to find where your two strongest personality tendencies locate you.

      You have now identified the personality compound that best describes you – of the 40 possible this is likely to provide indications of your thoughts, feelings and behaviour across many parts of your life.

      On the same matrix, you can see where the six Visitors land – in terms of their predominant personality traits.  You might match one of them, or you might match one of the other remarkable people covered in this series – in which case it will be interesting to see how your approach to life (and leadership) matches theirs

      The Personality of Remarkable Visitors to Aotearoa

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      If you have any questions or comments about personality or these compounds - drop me a note, I love chatting about this stuff.

      If you want to sign up to the regular Newsletter – put Remarkable in the subject line.

      - stewart@fxc.co.nz

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      The World’s Fastest Personality Test

      The Personality of Remarkable Visitors to Aotearoa

      Kupe

      Charismatic

      James Cook

      Diligent

      Focused-Openminded

      Spontaneous-Conscientious

      Independent-Extrovert

      Competitive-Agreeable

      Emotionally steady-Nervous

      Suggestions for development

      Tupaia

      Intense

      Focused-Openminded

      Spontaneous-Conscientious

      Independent-Extroverted

      Competitive-Agreeable

      Emotionally steady-Nervous

      Suggestions for development

      Jean Batten

      Audacious

      Focused-Openminded

      Spontaneous-Conscientious

      Independent-Extroverted

      Competitive-Agreeable

      Emotionally steady-Nervous

      Suggestions for development

      Stephen Fry

      Actor

      Focused-Openminded

      Spontaneous-Conscientious

      Independent-Extrovert

      Competitive-Agreeable

      Emotionally steady-Nervous

      Suggestions for development

      Thank you for reading this book

      Stewart Forsyth

      The Kiwi Diaspora: An excerpt

      Kupe

      About 750 years ago, on a little island at the north end of Te Wai Pounamu (the South Island) – people gathered to manufacture stone tools, exchange resources, and of course, eat. They could be described as following the ‘see food (and eat it)

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