You’ll be known for something whether you choose it or not. Might as well choose.

A reputation builds itself out of whatever you do most often, and people will describe you whether or not you ever decided how. The only question is whether you had a hand in it. Most of what gets said about you comes from small repeated things, not from one big moment, which means it is more in your control than it feels.

Decide on one sentence you would want a classmate or a coworker to use about you. Then find the small habit that earns it and do that habit three times this week. Reliable at the thing you chose beats memorable for something you did not.