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What is your superpower?
What is your hemisemidemigod domain?
What are you not just good at because you practiced, but spooky good at anyway (i.e., either despite or in addition to study)?
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Myths and legends bind reality. There is something about them that people experience in their world. There is something about you that is mythical and legendary.
Cultures organize their worlds by categorizing their gods. Pantheons are ontologies. The child of Earth and Fire tends to be Volcano.
This is not the same thing as developing expertise with practice. Take Olympic athletes, for example, where the separation between medals (and no medal) is so fractionally minute as to be meaningless in everyday practical terms (e.g., whisking eggs for a small fraction of a second faster will not substantially effect a recipe). Your power isn’t likely a matter of degree, then, but a difference in kind.
I mean, you might lose an argument with a meteorologist (or an actuary) about the risks of being hit by lightning (due to their greater degree of expertise), but can they argue with Thor? Nope. There is no argument. Thor goes boom. That’s it… a different kind of thing.
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So, while you can get really good at something with practice, what are your inherent natural talents? What stuff are you good at that other people really seem to struggle with, or don’t take to with the same sort of ease?
In solving this puzzle, don’t get distracted by those skills that you are good at, but which are not your unique power; for example, Thor is huge and powerful, but he is a god of Weather, not Strength. He is strong because weather is powerful. Lots of gods are strong, smart, tricky, graceful, and so on, because those are rather generic properties (for differentiating characters), but those traits are not necessarily their signature domain.
Except when it is, such as Hercules and Strength.
I am massively smart, but that’s not my signature domain.
My domain is something like Adaptation. Editing. Tweaking. It is alteration and modification to fit a new purpose. Modification to suit new conditions. Of things, not like biological evolution and such. Pieces and parts.
2017-08