Thursday, October 30, 2014

Finally, a power for my superhero

The superhero assignment was the hardest one I've had yet. I was completely blocked at coming up with a power for her. I made a nice, unassuming woman, but couldn't come up with a single power I wanted her to have. I was incapable of wishing anything sincere for her and couldn't think of anything funny. If it had been funny (as so many of the powers people in class mentioned were), it would also have had to be symbolic to me, and that just wasn't happening. I am not used to being left "speechless," and that's what my poor superhero was -- speechless because I couldn't give her a power.
Yesterday I was riding the subway with my kids, and I had, once again, been wrong about something, and my oldest son said, "See, I'm always right." It's kind of a joke because I often point out my fallibility, and he's trying on some infallibility. So, I thought, a really great superpower might be to always be right. Just always, have no doubt in yourself because if you think it, it must be right. Then I thought that might be kind of a burden -- really, who likes someone who is always right? And so my superhero had an instant weakness built into her strength.
In any case, I thought I'd mention it because this work had still been on my mind three weeks after we did it. It's a reminder that work we do with clients might stay with them too, and it's worth it to go back and see if they have any further thoughts about work they did in the past and see if anything new has come up.

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