I have a minor superpower, which is that I can teach a class that ends on time (plus or minus 2 minutes), virtually every single time.
I can do this for a 20 minute lecture, or a 1.25 hour online class, or a 3 hour conference workshop.
I was explaining my superpower to someone recently and realized that it is not actually a superpower.
The only reason I can do this so well is that for the first 4-5 years that I taught at MUIH, I taught 6-7 in person classes every week. Each one was 1.25 hours. If I went over, that meant that neither I nor the students would get a break before the next class, which started in 15 minutes, so I learned how much content would fit in the time I had, and how to adjust the class midstream if needed.
Taking into account breaks between trimesters, I taught approximately 250-270 classes per year during my first several years there, which brings me to well over 1,000 in person classes using the exact same format. (Eventually we transitioned to online teaching, which is a different ballgame.)
Somewhere along the line, my subconsciousness must have developed a very keen sense for what fits in a given amount of time.
My point in sharing this is that superpowers may be partly innate, but I suspect that a lot of the time, they're simply based on doing the same thing over and over and over again and getting a little bit better each time you do it.
The hard part is having the confidence to start and keeping the faith as you continue. Some of us don't want to do things if we're not REALLY good at them already, but we won't get REALLY good at them until we do the thing a lot.
So, you've got to believe that you know enough to start, to help people, and to make a difference right now, while also knowing that the more you repeat the thing, the better you'll get. There's a leap of faith involved, and sometimes that's what makes all the difference.
Take care,
Camille
p.s. If I was choosing an actual superpower, this is not the one I'd pick