What do you want to be remembered for?

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This week we’re quoting…

Aman Merchant (Chief Provocateur at Radicle; General Partner at ReimaginED Collective)

What Aman said: 

“If I’m remembered for anything, it should be for catalysing ecosystems that empower future generations to build the future, not just inherit it.” 

What’s your legacy? 

We love asking the question: 

What do you want to be remembered for? 

Because it brings everything into focus. As soon as you ask yourself this, you time travel (in your mind) years into the future and think about impact. About what really matters to you in your working life. 

It’s so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day stress of work. The mundane stuff. The never-ending list of things you haven’t quite been able to finish. And that other list, tucked away out of sight most of the time – the list of dreams you’d love to focus on if only you had the time. 

When you think about what you really want to be remembered for you have to be honest with yourself. You have to look at the work you’re doing and consider whether it’s really moving you towards the legacy you want to leave behind: Does this work matter to you? And if not, what can you do about it? 

Your ‘remember-me-for’ might not seem relevant to your work 

Maybe you ask yourself this question and you realise you want to be remembered as someone who…

• Always had time to listen to others and make them feel important
• Made space in conversations and communities for the quieter people to be heard
• Never gave up on creativity
• Could always see the silver lining in any situation 

…and you’re not sure how the thing you want to be remembered for relates to your work in the tech industry. But the thing about tech is that there’s room for you to be anyone and do anything: You can weave your deepest personal ambitions into your work if you want to. And when you decide to do that, you’ll refocus on that list that you’ve been keeping in the background – and you’ll start working on the things that are truly important to you. 

It’s one of the (many) reasons we think the tech industry is pretty amazing. 

Aman wants his legacy to make the future better 

Read Aman’s wish (at the beginning of this newsletter) again – 

He wants to be remembered for catalysing ecosystems that empower future generations to build the future, not just inherit it. 

There’s a career ambition there. That’s obvious: to be a part of creating the ecosystems that form the basis for future work. 

And if you look closer, there’s a deep personal objective too: to do something that empowers others to pave their own way in the world long after he has stopped working on EdTech ecosystems. To create something that drives a positive culture shift. 

We see this in the global tech community all the time. Entrepreneurs, innovators and business leaders who appear on the surface to be focused on measurable business goals, but – when you scratch that surface just a little bit – are also working in a way that’s actively creating the legacy they want to leave behind. 

So tell us…

What do you most want to be remembered for?

Is your work already helping you work towards that deeper ambition? And if not – what’s one thing you could do to change that? 

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The LEAP Team