A good legacy isn’t a statue. It’s a younger kid who thinks “I could do that” because they watched you.

The most useful thing you can leave behind is permission. A younger person watching you do something ordinary and difficult learns that it is available to people like them, which is often the only thing that was missing. Statues impress from a distance; an example works close up, because it looks reachable.

Be visible doing the unimpressive middle of things, not only the results. Let someone see you practising badly, asking a question, starting over. If a younger kid asks how you did it, answer honestly, including the part where you were not good at first.