You are born with a superpower.
We all are.
It is the power to imagine.
The late Sir Robinson said, "Imagination is the most extraordinary set of powers that we take for granted: the ability to bring into mind the things that aren't present. It's why we are so different from the rest of life on earth. That's why we're sitting in a beautiful building, drinking from these cups. Because human beings make things. We create things. We don't live in the world directly; we live in a world of ideas and of concepts and theories and ideologies."
What a magnificent power we are born with.
It is so powerful that it is almost frightening.
It is so frightening that from a very young age, we do our best to contain, limit, and deprive it of its power.
"It's just imagination", we say to young kids imagining marvels.
Imagination is a threat to what is.
It may spur the desire to change things, to create something new, different and unpredictable. And our thinking mind is scared of unpredictability. Certainty is comfortable even when it's miserable.
"People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty." — Virginia Satir.
Because it is not bound by reality, imagination can radically change the world and shake its foundation. That is why power sees imagination as an enemy. That is why one of the power's first actions, when threatened, is to silence art and artists.
Not only because art is a form of truth, as JFK said. But because art reminds people that they have the superpower of imagination.