There’s a lot of ways to be great, but part of the issue is how you’re framing it. The goal should never have been for your name to be remembered in 1000 years,

There’s a lot of ways to be great, but part of the issue is how you’re framing it. The goal should never have been for your name to be remembered in 1000 years, it should always have been to leave an impact. That doesn’t mean you are well known or loved, just that you’ve made the world better. That impact can be as big or small as you want, from being a good influence on your kid to mentoring to donating to working on important problems, all the way up to what you think of as great historical figures. Edit: you should also read Man’s Search for Meaning by Richard Frankel.