Day Four: Four talents/superpowers you have, and four talents/superpowers you want
1. Counselling/psychotherapy work: People tell me I'm good at this; I'll take them at their word, because I just assume everyone can do what I do. I've done it since I was young - seeing patterns, asking questions, listening. People's stories fascinate me, so I guess that's why I love it so much. Tired as I am before my placement, I always come out energised. What I need to work on is staying behind the client: I have a tendency to jump ahead.
2. Big picture/patterns. I love looking for them and teasing them out. Understanding systems of people - communities, hierarchies, dynamics - is a real strength of mine. Unfortunately, my detail work is less impressive. I'm a big one for principles and proactive problem-solving - give me the nuts and bolts and I'm going to pass out.
3. Losing myself in other worlds/imagination. Have always been able to do this. It makes reading and amusing myself far easier. Possibly writing as well.
4. Associative/Lateral thinking. I LOVED teaching for this reason. If a kid didn't understand? No problem - finding another metaphor or allegory was a challenge. It makes communicating ideas so much fun and a real pleasure - rather than a trial - to discover other ways of doing it.
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4 talents/superpowers I wish I had.
1. Teleportation. There are so many places and friends I want to visit - and I could be there immediately and spend as long as humanly possible with them before coming back.
2. Healing. As per Deryni/Valdemar worlds - able to heal by laying on of hands and infusing energy; both body and mind.
3. Telepathy. To have the intimacy of speaking mind to mind, layering it with emotion and images, to have the deepest of conversations, to bond that way...yes.
4. Manipulation at the subatomic level. With this, you can change the universe.
2 comments:
You're taking the matter; I'm taking the energy. Ha! Our plan for universe takeover can only succeed!
Ari.xx
Talents you have...those which come immediately to mind are an incredible sense of empathy, aided by insight...and then there is the ability to think things logically through...and your ability to write and express things in written prose. Come to think of it, your ability to express things with your spoken words combined with facial expression is very highly developed too.
In that you are able to make people feel better about themselves and life very often, I suspect the gift of healing is already there inside you. It's just waiting for the appropriate moment to come out and be used. And you will know when that is when it comes...
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