You made a great point. We can’t change what we like. That’s why we need to follow our passions and find work that fits best with these feelings.

When people are doing work they love the ripples of joy spread through society. I know I love working with people who are excited about what they do. They make work so much more enjoyable and the results are always fantastic.

I love your superpower. It takes a very visual mind to see underlying structures.

You are right the too often we focus on the pain instead of the symptom. I have a friend who wants to buy a new bed because she has back pain while she sleeps. The real symptom is that she doesn’t exercise, strengthening her body so there is no bed that will help her until she builds up her strength.

I think the trend of people being unhappy with their work seems to start at school, where you get funneled into a career based on your strengths and aptitudes alone, with no consideration for heart. I fell into this trap myself, doing 4 years at university for a degree that although definitely played to my strengths, was in a field I just wasn’t passionate about.

It’s a very fine line, but if we can get people realising that their strengths are absolutely transferrable to any endeavor they really care about, a lot more people can get to love what they do.

SuperPost!

But there are also things that I truly enjoy and, even if I’m not so great at them, I also enjoy the learning and evolving that goes with using them regularly and — hopefully — turning them into superpowers.

I’m pretty sure that my superpower is X-ray vision, by the way. I’ve always been able to look through big problems and find the underlying structures underneath. Doesn’t always mean I can fix a problem, but if you know what’s really wrong, you can at least focus on the actual issue, rather than a symptom.

I like that you’ve found your story power. It’s the best way to connect with people. It makes them understand how you can help them. It took me awhile to connect with my own story, but once I did my blog and coaching business took off.

I love it so much that I’m going to tell you a secret. My superpower manifests as helping people develop fundamentally awesome relationships with themselves, which then lets them pursue their passions and superpowers and ultimately save the world. (Is it not cool how doing our own right things saves the world?)

But the superpower behind the throne is actually about stories. Because stories are both what gets us into the tricky relationships with ourselves that limit our world-saving powers (and also, you know, happiness) and what gets us out.

It took me approximately forever to figure out that I have a story-powered superpower but now that I have, I think it is approximately the best thing ever.