Most of the good you do, you’ll never hear about. Do it anyway.

There is no receipt for most of what you do well. The note you wrote, the seat you gave up, the thing you said that somebody needed at that exact moment, none of it comes back with confirmation attached. If you only do good where the credit is visible, you end up doing a narrow and slightly fake version of it.

Decide in advance that the acknowledgement is optional. Do one useful thing this week that nobody can trace back to you, and let it disappear. Check afterwards whether it still felt worth doing with nobody clapping.