- What if you decided…
- …finally..
- …at last..
- …without further ado,
- that:
- …GASP!!!…
- the world really needs to know about your particular super-power?
- That, you can no longer…
- KEEP IT A SECRET.
- After all, humanity needs you.
- The planet needs you.
- You have simply got to make the world a better place!!!!!
- Oh, what super power, are you wondering?
- A little confused?
- Sure, you didn’t get a bite from a radioactive spider;
- nor get jettisoned in a pod from a planet far, far away-
- (or best to keep it quiet if you did).
- And heck:
- green kryptonite-to be really honest-is easy peasy for you to deal with.
- And no XXXXXXXXXL super robust shirts for you.
- And the fuel consumption on that BatMobile is awful.
- Nahhh. Yours is a more discerning, easy-oasy, Sunday morning kinda super power.
- Discrete.
- Difficult to observe in action.
- No need for plain glass spectacles.
- And yet.
- It is absolutely life-changing.
- And World saving.
- And ecological, too.
- It just doesn’t need a
- Ker pow!!!;
- or Zappp!!!!…….;
- or darkened city back-drop;
- or even a brooding baddie hanging around in a dark alley-way stalking the blonde in the gabardine trench-coat
- to announce its entrance.
- Of course,
- like all super heroes….
- you have your issues.
- They have
- green kryptonite OR
- their bracelets being tied together by a man (of course)*
- or simply their bad temper, to worry about.
- *Wonder Woman, in case you were wondering.
- You perhaps have:
- your hellish commute
- your college debt
- a declining market.
- But you can manage, heck conquer them.
- So when are you going to let on about your super power?
- Are you embarrassed because you only have one, not ten?
- And you don’t have a utility belt?
- Nor an invisible car?
- It’s time to tell them. Time to tell the world.
- That you can do what is now a lost art. You can:
- THINK!
- Yes: THINK.
- You can: get pulses of electricity to move from synapse to synapse in your brain and take different routes from (i) a previous day (ii) another person (ii) and sometimes just to leap to the other side of your brain and create a B R E A K T H R O U G H!! And you can do this effortlessly and consistently.
- WOW!!!!!.
- I know. There, sitting up on high looking down from the Chrysler building, (Big Ben, UK version; Eiffel Tower, Euro version)) you notice that the majority of humanity has stopped.
- Thinking that is.
- It did have the power.
- But TV, corn syrup, The Blackberry, free newspapers, open-plan cubicle offices, The Bill (UK police ‘drama’), escalators & lifts, 98.6% of all politicians, 99.2% of all meetings, worrying about stuff which is out of their control, following celebrities…..have caused the art to be lost.
- Your mission is:
- to save the planet (er, should you accept it…)
- by getting people thinking again.
- You’ll challenge stuff in meetings.
- Their crazy language such as
- ‘they wont like it’(who exactly is ‘they'?)
- ‘that’s not the way we do things around here’ (what about if we did?)
- You’ll ask them why they are worrying about what the competition is doing instead of making a strategic breakthrough in their own business?
- Bing? Er, bong.
- You’ll suggest using the marketing spend in another way rather than two billion dollars on a ‘me-too’ twitter campaign.
- You‘ll ask ‘how does this pension scheme actually work?’
- You’ll go to shareholder meetings and ask difficult but vital questions…
- ..write to politicians asking for explanations…
- …challenge your clients…
- And. You’ll challenge your own thinking.
- Why exactly am I encouraging my daughter to do a business degree?
- Could she just use the same money to actually start a business?
- You’ll sign your kids up to the public library as soon as they can walk. Heck, as soon as they open their eyes.
- You’re not bothered who your daughter marries so long as he’s got an awfully big..
- ..library.
- ‘Are you crazy? I want a really good super power’, he screamed across the room…
- ‘a flame thrower or an invisible car or something which allows me to by-pass airport security’
- Trivial: thinking will get you any of those.
- It’s the ultimate, definitive uber, meta, hyper, super, supra, con-catenated super-power
- You’ve been a secret super-hero for too long;
- it’s been bad for your health;
- you missed out on one or two really nice girls (or boys)
- and some good career opportunities.
- No more Mr Nice Guy.
- No more Ms Meek.
- No more cover up.
- So, get to it: there’s a planet to be saved.
- Don’t expect quick and easy praise.
- And don’t even think about re-ordering that Lycra suit.
- Just start thinking.
- Really thinking.
- Creatively, laterally, radically, incisively, fully, synergistically, resourcefully.
- For yourself.
- You’ll like it, superhero.