Your great-great-grandkids won’t know your name. They’ll inherit how you treated people anyway.

Names stop travelling after a few generations, which is the ordinary fate of nearly everybody. What does keep moving is behaviour. How you treat people gets picked up by whoever is around you, passed to whoever is around them, and turns up in households with no idea where it came from. The influence outlives the credit by a long way.

Think of one habit of kindness you inherited without knowing its origin. Then be deliberate this week about one you would be glad to see four generations down.