SuperHero101

1. What if you decided…
2. …finally..
3. …at last..
4. …without further ado,
5. that:
6. …GASP!!!…
7. the world really needs to know about your particular super-power?
8. That, you can no longer…
9. KEEP IT A SECRET.
10. After all, humanity needs you.
11. The planet needs you.
12. You have simply got to make the world a better place!!!!!
13. Oh, what super power, are you wondering?
14. A little confused?
15. Sure, you didn’t get a bite from a radioactive spider;
16. nor get jettisoned in a pod from a planet far, far away-
17. (or best to keep it quiet if you did).
18. And heck:
19. green kryptonite-to be really honest-is easy peasy for you to deal with.
20. And no XXXXXXXXXL super robust shirts for you.
21. And the fuel consumption on that BatMobile is awful.
22. Nahhh. Yours is a more discerning, easy-oasy, Sunday morning kinda super power.
23. Discrete.
24. Difficult to observe in action.
25. No need for plain glass spectacles.
26. And yet.
27. It is absolutely life-changing.
28. And World saving.
29. And ecological, too.
30. It just doesn’t need a
31. Ker pow!!!;
32. or Zappp!!!!…….;
33. or darkened city back-drop;
34. or even a brooding baddie hanging around in a dark alley-way stalking the blonde in the gabardine trench-coat
35. to announce its entrance.
36. Of course,
37. like all super heroes….
38. you have your issues.
39. They have
40. green kryptonite OR
41. their bracelets being tied together by a man (of course)*
42. or simply their bad temper, to worry about.
43. *Wonder Woman, in case you were wondering.
44. You perhaps have:
45. your hellish commute
46. your college debt
47. a declining market.
48. But you can manage, heck conquer them.
49. So when are you going to let on about your super power?
50. Are you embarrassed because you only have one, not ten?
51. And you don’t have a utility belt?
52. Nor an invisible car?
53. It’s time to tell them. Time to tell the world. 
54. That you can do what is now a lost art. You can:
55. THINK!
56. Yes: THINK.
57. 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.
58. WOW!!!!!.
59. 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.
60. Thinking that is.
61. It did have the power.
62. 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.
63. Your mission is:
64. to save the planet (er, should you accept it…)
65. by getting people thinking again.
66. You’ll challenge stuff in meetings.
67. Their crazy language such as
68. ‘they wont like it’(who exactly is ‘they'?)
69. ‘that’s not the way we do things around here’ (what about if we did?)
70. You’ll ask them why they are worrying about what the competition is doing instead of making a strategic breakthrough in their own business?
71. Bing? Er, bong.
72. You’ll suggest using the marketing spend in another way rather than two billion dollars on a ‘me-too’ twitter campaign.
73. You‘ll ask ‘how does this pension scheme actually work?’
74. You’ll go to shareholder meetings and ask difficult but vital questions…
75. ..write to politicians asking for explanations…
76. …challenge your clients…
77. And. You’ll challenge your own thinking.
78. Why exactly am I encouraging my daughter to do a business degree?
79. Could she just use the same money to actually start a business?
80.  You’ll sign your kids up to the public library as soon as they can walk. Heck, as soon as they open their eyes.
81. You’re not bothered who your daughter marries so long as he’s got an awfully big..
82. ..library.
83. ‘Are you crazy? I want a really good super power’, he screamed across the room…
84. ‘a flame thrower or an invisible car or something which allows me to by-pass airport security’
85. Trivial: thinking will get you any of those.
86. It’s the ultimate, definitive uber, meta, hyper, super, supra, con-catenated super-power
87. You’ve been a secret super-hero for too long;
88. it’s been bad for your health;
89. you missed out on one or two really nice girls (or boys)
90. and some good career opportunities.
91. No more Mr Nice Guy.
92. No more Ms Meek.
93. No more cover up.
94. So, get to it: there’s a planet to be saved.
95. Don’t expect quick and easy praise.
96. And don’t even think about re-ordering that Lycra suit.
97. Just start thinking.
98. Really thinking.
99. Creatively, laterally, radically, incisively, fully, synergistically, resourcefully.
100. For yourself.
101. You’ll like it, superhero.