Everyone Wants To Have An “Impact” But What The Heck Does That Mean? (2024)

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Why do people want to make an impact on the world? ›

We want to find meaning in our lives. Giving back and learning how to make an impact on others provides that meaning because it makes life about something much larger than ourselves. It fulfills our essential human need to feel significant as well as the human need to contribute.

a powerful effect that something, especially something new, has on a situation or person: have/make an impact on The anti-smoking campaign had had/made quite an impact on young people.

The Vredefort impact structure is the largest verified impact structure on Earth. The crater, which has since been eroded away, has been estimated at 170–300 kilometres (110–190 mi) across when it was formed.

In that way, one person's actions really can change the world for good. Altruism is contagious and if you're figuring out how you can make a difference, take it one day at a time. You may not always see how you impact the people you're serving, but everything you do to promote change can add up over time.

Influencing someone means you're able to persuade them without exerting force or change them in an indirect but usually important way. When you positively impact someone, you make a deep impression, an effect so strong that it can affect their mindset or trajectory of their life or career.

The question is, what kind of a difference do we want to make? We now have scientific proof that, the more we care about the happiness and wellbeing of our fellow humans, the happier we get. One pleasant side effect of making that kind of a difference is that, by changing the world around us, we change ourselves.

People want to change the world not because they think the grass could be greener, but because they are hopeful for a more peaceful and productive society. They have a version of the world inside of their heads that they can't stop dreaming about, sure that they could make a difference in somebody else's life.

We can make the world a more equitable and fair place. Every one of us has this ability. It would be great to understand this while we are alive and well rather than at the last minute when our time has run out. Every one of us has the power to make the world a better place.