DTH-XII-0016
“I want to use my skills to serve something bigger than myself.”
Service is one of the most direct paths to legacy. When you apply what you are actually good at to a problem that matters, the effect is often disproportionate to the effort. The key is specificity, not service in general, but your skills, applied to a real and particular problem.
Your Practice
Name your top three skills, the things you do better than most people you know. Then name one problem in your community, your field, or your family that those skills could directly address. Write two sentences about what that application would look like. Then take one step toward it this week.
The Architects
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result... His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
Nikola Tesla, 'Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World,' Modern Mechanix and Inventions (July 1934)