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Misfits10: Super Powers with Melanie Spring


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I was never a child prodigy.

I didn’t grow up being excellent at gymnastics. (You should see me trying to do a forward roll.)

I can’t really play any instruments, except the recorder with my nose.

And while I can say, “I love you because you’re a tall and handsome man” in Cantonese, my language skills are a bit rubbish.

I’ve never been really good at anything. Just okayish at a lot of things. If I were a superhero I’d have an ‘M’ on my cape for Mediocre Woman! (And no, I’m not being self-deprecating here. I love me. But I also know my strengths and weaknesses.)

But looking at some entrepreneurs out there in social media land, you’d think you need a superpower to succeed, whether it’s inventing your own brand of yoghurt when you were eight or having a chain of poodle massage shops by age 22.

We’ve been sold the idea that to be a success you need to be horrendously attractive, a chino-wearing supernerd or someone with a beard. (I’m 99% convinced Branson would be nothing if he was cleanly shaven.)

Oh, and it also helps if you’re bald.

I’m none of these things. But I quickly realised it was important to appreciate my superpowers, however boring and pathetic they seemed.

(Yes, I know ‘appreciating my superpowers’ might sound a bit ‘woo woo,’ but bear with me.)

We all have superpowers. And if we can identify them, they can really help make our business a success.

Tune in to learn:

In this episode we cover:

  • What are superpowers?
  • Why are they important?
  • How do you find out what your superpowers are?
  • Who would play Kate and Melanie in a movie?
  • What are Kate’s superpowers?
  • What are Melanie’s superpowers?
  • Are superpowers part of our nature or does it come down to nurture?
  • What to do if your superpowers are bad things?
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