I was listening to a radio interview recently, and the guest said,

of the billions of people in the world, very few are ever written into the history books.

I have to be honest, I had just turned into the program, and so I can't speak to the context of the

conversation, but it made me think

what an odd way to look at society, both in a macro and micro scale.

I began to search for people you've never heard of that changed the world. It's a beautiful

rabbit hole to dive into, in all honesty.

Some are familiar, such as Rosa Parks or Mahatma Gandhi, but then there were people I had never

heard of that truly have changed the world as we know it. I'm going to pronounce a few names,

I hope correctly. Nils few names, I hope correctly,

Nils Bolin, who has saved millions of lives with his three-point safety belt,

or what we refer to as commonly as the seatbelt.

Henry Dunnett, who founded the Red Cross,

Grace Hopper, the first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, and later developed one of the very first computer programming languages, and Maurice Hilleman, who developed

more than 40 vaccines to eradicate such things as the measles and the mumps, hepatitis A and B, overachiever,

meningitis, eumonia, rebella, just to name the few.

The guy apparently never slept.

And for that, I applaud.

There are thousands and thousands of people who have left the world better than when they found it.

And for the most part, fame or recognition wasn't what they sought, but simply a better tomorrow,

not only for themselves, but for their friends and family and everyone else around them.

I call these people life changers.

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