What’s my Superpower?

It sounds like one of those really over-the-top self-improvement ideas. But it’s not like that at all. It’s a witty and wise set of observations about people’s strengths and weaknesses.

I enjoyed this set of pages called My Superpower.

It set me wondering what my superpower is. How about procrastination? I’m actually procrastinating now; I should be preparing a presentation on the Bahai Faith that I’m giving at the Home Office on Monday as part of the HO’s diversity week.

Or there’s my ability to collect snippets of useless information and bore people rigid with them. Did you know that the Great Western Railway’s broad gauge (the distance between the rails) until 1872 was 7 feet and a quarter of an inch (please don’t ask what that is in metric). Why the quarter of an inch? Who cares?

Then again, I have a hopeless memory. I can tell that you I read something “somewhere”. But where? Some people have an uncanny knack for remembering book titles and page numbers and even the line on the page, but I can’t even tell you the title of the books I’m reading right now.

But my all-time superpower is my ability to “wing it”. I can join in discussion and give wonderful talks and presentations and make you believe that I know what I’m talking about - usually based on my half remembered collection of useless information that I just KNOW I read somewhere.

Now, how can I capitalize on this wondrous superpower?