Legacy isn’t built at big moments. It’s built on regular weekdays when nobody’s filming.

Who you are gets settled in situations with no audience and no consequence. Big occasions bring out a performance, and performances are unreliable evidence, whereas an unremarkable Tuesday shows what you do by default. The default is the part that accumulates into something.

Pick the least observed stretch of your week and raise your standard there. How you speak to people who cannot help you, what you do when nobody would know either way. That is where the real work of character gets done.