Here’s a creative challenge for you. It’s Friday in North America and you’re probably not going to work anyway, so why not give this a try?
This is a challenge to stretch your brain and to try to expand your thinking a tiny bit.
The theme is superpowers. Define superpower in any way that you wish.
Here are some questions to help guide you through this:
- If you could have any one superpower for one day, which one would you choose and what would you do with it?
- If you could have any one superpower for one month, which one would you choose and what would you do with it?
- If you could have any one superpower for one year, which one would you choose and what would you do with it?
- If you could have any one superpower for the rest of your life, which one would you choose and what would you do with it?
If you’re stuck, let’s look at Superman’s better known superpowers:
- Super-strength (bench pressing trucks, tanks, buildings, etc.)
- Flight and super-speed (regularly breaking the sound barrier, sometimes flying faster than the speed of light)
- Invulnerability (immunity to physical harm)
- Various vision powers: X-Ray, Heat, Telescopic, Microscopic
- Super-hearing (hear very quiet sounds or sounds from very far away)
- Super-breath: ability to blow air very hard and have it freeze on someone
If you’d like a more comprehensive list of superpowers, try this Wikipedia article.
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Just for fun, if you answer these questions in the comments section of this post, I’ll chime in and make some observations or ask additional questions to try to spark things along. The goal is for you to exercise your imagination a bit and see what kind of ideas these questions will spark for you.
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Have you ever seen the movie “Jumper”? The protagonist has the ability to jump through space at will – he just has to be able to visualize the target location, and VOILA! He's there.
The movie leaned a bit on the lame side, but I'd definitely take the “Jump” ability as my superpower. It's pretty handy, even beyond the obvious benefit of getting to vacation-worthy destinations for sunset and home to sleep in my own bed. I could fight crime – just grab the perp and Jump him to a lonely ledge on a glacier (middle of the ocean? mid-air?). Heck, grab the victim and port them to safety.
On the less-than-super uses, just think of how productive you'd be if you could blink yourself into meetings (or, even better, OUT of them!). Jump your commute route through rush hour traffic. Jump straight to the gym/supermarket/dry cleaners and right home again. Jump the dog for a walk to the best off-leash area you can find, local or not (she really likes beaches). Can't wait for Delivery or DiGiorno? Jump to takeout and home again in a blink.
Now, if only I could Jump to the end of this press release I'm trying to write mid-afternoon on a Friday….
(not having looked at other people's answer yet):
1. One day – Precognition. Vegas, baby!
2. One month – Something I wouldn't miss terribly when it's gone, but still useful and life-changing. Probably still precognition. Wall Street, baby!
3. One year – Teleportation. I'd want to be able to teleport myself and anyone-anything I can carry anywhere in the world instantly.
4. For the rest of my life – Immortality. I usually reply teleportation, but immortality provides many of the same benefits as teleportation, so long as you have patience. The ability to grant immortality to anyone (including yourself) is another interesting idea.
Very good. It seems like you'd go with this idea no matter how long you could have it, which is cool. Very practical uses! Sounds like you'd like a little time travel, too!
Now this is interesting. I like the fact that you would choose a different ability depending on how long that you'd have it and, for each timeframe, you have a practical use. Immortality is an interesting choice, but don't you see some downsides, especially if your friends and family remain mortal?
I'd have to go with super intelligence. I think with that power, one would have the ability to invent and build pretty much anything to grant additional super powers – say a mechanical super strength suit at the very base or at best, a cure for cancer or a time machine. You'd essentially have the entire world in the palm of your hand because you would be the only person who understood how everything worked.
Clever, very clever. But wouldn't it be helpful to be able to bend the laws of science a bit, too?
For a day: I think the ability to conjure up whatever I wanted – kind of like being my own personal Genie for a day. It could be fun on a purely selfish/materialistic level. And just think of all the good you could do . . . and on a 'I don't want people to bug me' level – by the time anyone had figured out what I was up to, I'd be back to normal again.
For a month: Teleportation would be great. I live a long way from family and I would love to just pop up north for an afternoon at the blink of an eye. I'm sure there are all kinds of altruistic things you could do with such a super power, and they'd probably dawn on me at some time during the month . . .
For a year: Perhaps the ability to reason with a three year old . . . now that's a super power!!
For all time: I would love to have the ability to grow things – like a super green thumb. I could feed the world, reforest the Amazon, have indoor plants that lasted more than a month . . .
What would I do with superpowers ? Let me think….
Dr.David Black
http://www.blackchiropractic.com.au
1. For one day I would be able to set up a portal to a parallel universe with magic where I was adept in it the portal closing behind me. I would now be a magician in a parallel universe where the laws of science bend to my will
2. Super intelligence where I would create a pill and easy instructions for when I dumb down again. The pill would make me super human where I become 7 feet tall like master cheif any halo fans
3. A power where I could sing anything and emit emotions from people also knowing the perfect lyrics and then I would become a millionaire with it in the year and then live my life as a high roller
4. The power of charisma where I say one word and the peson like me anything I say people agree with if someone wants to kill I tell them don't and they won't
I think that immortality is to much in the fact that eventually life gets old after a million years. Or if you fell into lava you'd feel the pain but you wouldn't die. So basically just saying immortality leaves to many gaps.
Have you wondered how your live could be if you worked out a bit more ? I see all types of pills and lose 20 lbs a week programs but why doesn't anyone take some time of and run, swim or walk around the park (at least). So many people are suffering from ejaculare precoce but they believe every add that will make their lives better “guaranteed”. Why are we so trusting ?
one day: the ability to swap properties between universes, and make a day in ours last forever, and other cool stuff.
month: same
year: same
forever: having awesome(but limited [time-wise]) regen, and the ability to create beings connected to a hive mind with me at the center, from my blood, whos powers are proportionet to how much blood I use to make them. I could stockpile gallons of blood, and then make a super-thing-of-awesomeness, wich can own all in its path of death. i realize that this is two powers, but they go hand in hand, otherwise you could die really easily from blood loss. unless blood creatures grow out of blood and get bigger… so ya, ownage!!
one day: Precognition, it has too many practical applications in every day life not to choose here.
one month: Some sort of reality bending power would be perfect in this slot, you could bend reality to your will, but have enough time to see the ramifications of your actions.
one year: This is where the powers get hard to choose, I’d say something fun like teleportation or telepathy, either one would allow you to make a good sum of money in that one year and you could live comfortably for the rest of your life.
rest of my life: I’ve considered this many times, and I can’t pick a power that’s not Psychokinesis/Telekinesis, either one combined with a general knowledge of biology, chemistry and physics could allow you to pretty much do anything you wanted. For example: you could manipulate the atoms in your own body to allow you to pass through solid objects or you could become a superhero, stopping criminals through various methods such as binding their arms and legs mentally, or in serious cases where many lives were at stake, stopping their heart.