Can You Name Your Superpower?

[00:00:01] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: On this show, I ask almost every guest the same question. What is your superpower? Some light up, most go quiet, and almost nobody has the answer ready. And one guest told me her superpower was her voice, the same voice she spent years calling her weakness.

[00:00:22] Welcome back to the Happy Healthy Hustle Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Christiane, and today I have 3 big takeaways for you. First, why your superpower hides in the thing you actually apologize for. Second, what happens to your effort when you stop chasing someone else’s

[00:00:43] strength. And third, a small practice to name yours this week. 3 people, 1 question. So this is going to be a good one. You better tune in. And before we start, Follow the show, send this one to the friend who never takes a compliment, and leave

[00:01:01] a review for us. I will read it out loud on the next episode. So let’s find yours. On my podcast, I ask almost every guest the same question: What is your superpower? And watch what happens next. What is your superpower, Kate? What is your superpower? How

[00:01:20] would you describe your superpower to us, Michelle? What do you feel is your superpower, Amandine? What is your superpower? What do you feel makes makes you special and different from anybody else out there? Because it tells you everything. Some light up, most go quiet. Almost nobody

[00:01:36] has the answer ready. I’m a behavioral economist, so I pay attention to patterns like this. And here’s why that one fascinates me. We

[00:01:47] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: know how to talk about what we do, our titles, our output, and interesting, of course, our hours. But a superpower is none of that. It’s the one thing you do that nobody around you does quite the same way. Listen really closely to the answers and you

[00:02:10] start to hear it. One entrepreneur said determination. She refuses to back down no matter the pressure. Another said love, the kind that changes a room the second she walks in. One said her voice, and then she admitted she spent years believing

[00:02:32] it was actually her weakness. The last one is the whole story because your superpower usually hides inside the thing you underestimate, the trait you apologize for, the gift that comes so easily you assume it cannot possibly count. And here’s the part most

[00:02:54] people miss. Nobody’s superpower outranks anyone

[00:03:00] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: else’s. Yours is not smaller than hers, and hers is not louder than his. They are all different by design. So what I’m showing you here is it’s important to name your own strength, and it changes the way every bit of effort pays off. Think about what

[00:03:18] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: happens when you chase someone else’s strength instead of your own. Your force. Your push. And that means every step feels like walking uphill because you’re using energy where you were never built to spend it. Now flip that. The day you name your

[00:03:40] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: actual superpower, the game completely changes. You stop forcing. You actually start flowing. Because the same effort finally moves you because it is aimed where you were always meant to aim it. And that’s the shift. Figuring out your superpower is a superpower in itself.

[00:04:01] And most people actually never do it. They spend a lifetime admiring the strengths that belong to others. And that’s fair. But you find

[00:04:11] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: yours in small steps. And that is the heart of petite practice. You do not need to become someone else or even someone new. You just need to pay close attention to who you already are. So here’s your petite practice this week. How you can get started

[00:04:31] to find your superpower is ask 3 people who know you well one question. What do you think my superpower is? That’s question number 1. Question number 2: Write down exactly their words while you do that and watch for the compliment you always brush off. The thing

[00:04:51] that people thank you for that costs you nothing. That’s your map. You need to name it, you need to own it, and then you need to build one small step at a time because the world does not need another version of someone else. It needs the

[00:05:05] one thing only you can do. So here is what I want you to leave with. And that’s your 3rd step. What is the

[00:05:13] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: strength you keep apologizing for? And what would change if you finally called it your superpower? Tell me in the comments. Can’t wait to see it. And if this helped, subscribe to the channel. I share one small practice like this every episode. I’m Dr. Christiane,

[00:05:34] behavioral economist who studies how driven people build career and a life that lasts. Can’t wait to see you in the next episode. Take care.