Simply put, you have to do something memorable.
It can be good (Ghandi, Nightengale, Martin Luther King Jr.)
It can be bad (Hitler, Napoleon, Stalin)
It can be a talent (Rembrant, Bach, Michaelangelo)
It can be ideas (Galileo, Plato, Socrates)
It can be a great invention (Wright Brothers, Marconi, Louis Pasteur)
It can be a daring adventure (Columbus, Louis and Clark, Neil Armstrong)
Some things that are left that might make your mark in history:
A talented sculptor. (all that seems to exist currently are "modern art" people)
A talented leader. (haven't seen one since Hitler. Yes, I know I'm going to catch krap for that one, but... He took a country that was very small, and very much in debt, and came very close to taking over the world.)
A talented explorer (first on Mars)
A talented inventor (cure for aids/cancer/common cold... fully electric car, quantum computer)
There are others, but you get the point. You have to do something that makes a massive impact. (hint; acts of evil rarely make it. how many people remember the name of the DC sniper?)
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