How To Have “Superhuman” Powers

As an internet market I like to keep abreast of all the new ways that are being invented to make money online.  I also like to understand the psychology behind salesmanship and marketing.

I recently read an EXCELLENT article by Avish Parashar, the man behind MotivationalSmartAss.com.  His article was all about how people sometimes make the mistake of thinking they have superpowers like our comic-book heroes, but how, in real life, we have to settle for, well, reality.  I couldn’t agree more (and I wish most others thought this way).

We CAN Use Superpowers

Let me address each of  his 7 ideas:

Mind Control

Avish says you can’t have mind control over others.  What do you think advertisers, preachers, politicians etc. do ALL the time?  MOST people believe pretty much the same stuff that millions of other do.  This is NOT a coincidence.

Body Swapping

Here, Avish is referring to movies like ‘Freaky Friday’ where the personality of one person goes into another.  The gist of these kinds of movies is that each thinks the OTHER’S life is better, UNTIL they try it themselves.

You CAN get into the minds of other in various ways.  Good parents do this all the time with their children by simply REMEMBERING what is was like when they were young.  Good salespeople do it all the time by “mirroring” their prospects (their body movements, facial expressions and mood etc.) so that they can be seen to be “just like” their potential customer.

Mind Reading

Though you can’t know specifics about the exact thoughts going through somebody’s mind, you DO know for certain that they are thinking the following:

1. How can I be happier?

2. It this good for me?

3. How can I be healthier?

4. How can I live forever?

5. How can I get more respect?

6. How can I get more affection?

7. Will this make me feel better?

And the list goes on.  People are RATIONALLY self-interested, though this is used against them by politicians, religious leaders etc. to manipulate them.  There is NOTHING wrong with being like this, and even if there was, you CAN’T change it.

Precognition

This is the superhero version trick of being able to see into the future.  Here’s what I ABSOLUTELY DO know:

1. The earth will keep spinning, which means the sun will appear which we call morning and disappear which we call night.

2. People will disagree on what life is all about.

3. People will disagree on what happens when we die.

4. Things will happen that you don’t like.

5. Things will happen that you DO like.

6. You will die.

7. People you like will die.

8. More people will be born.

9. People will starve.

10. If you jump out of an airplane at 40,000 feet without a parachute, you will die.

And lots more KNOWN events of course.

Time Travel

The stories go, you can go back and change your past, be killed and never be born etc.  While this cannot happen, the scientific studies say that you CAN travel forwards in time, perhaps one day even being able to skip forward many hundreds of years with the right technology.

However, there are several psychological tricks you can employ that make it easy to change your MEMORY of the past, so that you can have a better and more productive future.  This has also been proven to be very negative sometimes.  False memory syndrome has put people in jail for crimes that were never committed.

I’ve PERSONALLY experienced a memory that one of my family insists is their memory. To this day, I know don’t know if it is MY memory or not.

Reality Altering Magic

While I agree with Avish that “magic” doesn’t happen, as Arthur Clarke once noted, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

For example, if you could show a television set to somebody from the middle-ages, or even as recently as the 17th century (on this planet anyway!) they would think it was magic.  As we evolve and those rare few REAL producers (inventors, REAL business people et al) make our world more magical with each passing year.

Channeled Rage

This is the whole ‘Hulk’ story, that big green fella with a bad attitude.  While Avish says that rage is never good (and for the most part I certainly agree) sometimes people are put into situations that are so dangerous that, given the choice between freezing with fear, or lashing-out with rage, RAGE is the best choice for your survival.

Many veteran soldiers and police have experienced this (and also fear of course) telling stories about how they would not be alive today if they hadn’t gone “a little crazy” and incapacitated several assailants all by themselves.

Conclusion

Read some of Avish’s work.  He’s EXCELLENT.  Also consider that fact that you CAN use your superpowers to improve your life and those of others.

Luke.