Humble superpowers
A couple of weeks ago I started doing press-ups. Now I've gone from I-can-barely-do-five to I-can-mostly-do-ten, which is actually a lot of progress.
I feel like I've acquired a superpower. When Clark Kent walks around Metropolis, he thinks “if a supervillain came, I would be able to jump that building”. When I walk around the office, I think “if a drill sergeant came, I would be able to drop and give him twenty”.
Some superpowers are humbler than others.
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But then again...
Some superpowers are far more commonly used.
I know you won't find a drill sergeant every day around the corner at the office — And if you did, I hope it is because he is a customer, so he won't punish you by requiring arbitrary amounts of push-ups…
Anyway, the probability of finding a drill sergeant is still way way way higher than the probability of meeting an arch-villain that would require jumping magnitudes of order your height.