To me the power of philosophy is being able to create your own definition of truth, knowledge and reality, creating ideas out of this, believing in these ideas and then living by them, and by that changing your life and possibly also the world, without any money, resources, contacts or allowance from authorities being mixed in. Just by using your own head.
Philosophy is an act, a practice, not an academic study. If philosophy to you is to read and talk about what has been philosophized about before, or read or talk about what others have said about what has been philosophized before, then you're watching philosophy, not doing philosophy.
What I like the most is how you're allowed to sidestep science and just not believe in quantum physics or special relativity (or any other science that has such high status that they pretty much are facts in our society). That you're always allowed to come up with your own stuff and start talking about what will happen at the end of the universe.
Discovering philosophy is discovering that you can create your own science, your own knowledge, your own worldview.