Imagine we are stood in a factory and I give you lots of spare parts. There are wheels and seats, a shiny new engine and several body parts. I give you a box of small component parts, an instruction book and all the tools you will ever need.
You work tirelessly for weeks constructing a new car from all the parts until one day you turn the ignition key and its fires up, bringing new life to elements that individually meant nothing. With a huge sense of pride you climb inside and start to drive the car around the factory. The feeling of achievement and satisfaction are making you burst with happiness.
The question is, are you a carmaker or a driver?
A carmaker will go back to the factory and find all the component parts to make another car and do the same things over again and again. Although he could improve on his machine, no one was there to share his labours. The process has a result but it is sterile and repetitive. Eventually the pain becomes greater than the pleasure, so the carmaker makes no more cars.
A driver will revel in the experience and tell everyone else how fantastic it is to drive a car. He will enthuse how brilliant it was to complete his first motoring masterpiece and broadcast how wonderful it would be to go faster. He would encourage everyone around him to get excited about his vision until other people started to build his next project. They would want to satisfy his need for going faster and to enjoy the glory of being part of his history.
A legacy is born from passion and desire. Getting noticed by the people who believe in what you believe and share the positive emotions you express creates it. No one noticed the carmaker regardless of how hard he worked, so no one followed him.
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