Your Power-Pose Experiment
What's a Creative Superpower?
It's anything you particularly rely on to get your creative work done or make it remarkable.
Declaring that superpower for yourself—because you already believe in it as a special, useful part of yourself—not because you want to believe in it or create it—is the point.
The recognition, with a certain swagger, makes it a superpower, and makes it work powerfully for you.
Power-Posing
Claiming our superpowers is a kind of mental power-posing (1), except we aren't trying to psych ourselves into feeling anything. We are reminding ourselves of a kind of signature ability, maybe even a quirky one, that's already ours, already part of our normal operations.
From there, remembering and using those superpowers to our best advantage can power-pose (2) us into our creative work with more confidence and boldness.
Name One Thing
What do you rely on to spark your creative work, get it done, or “sell” it to others?
What approach, trait, style, skill, or resource often carries you through when time is short, the obstacles feel tremendous, or the well is dry?
What sets you apart from other people who also do that creative thing that you do?
Name at least one thing, even if you’re not sure about it.
Now call it your superpower. Just as an experiment.
What could someone who had that superpower do with the creative project that’s on your mind?
What difference could a superpower like that make in your creative life?
Try a little power-posing with that superpower, just to see what happens.
References:
https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are/up-next?language=en
Cuddy, A. J. C. (2015). Presence: Bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges. New York: Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Company.