Josh Jackson

My powers have doubled since we last met.

[Josh Jackson @JoshJackson10]

I hope everyone enjoys my Dave Matthews Band cover. I worked very hard on it. (cc: @kevinguerra and Starburns.)

[Josh Jackson @JoshJackson10]

@TimCowlishaw How about this scenario:
A player for team A places a sizable bet for HIS team to beat team B. Player A then gets in contact with players from team B and says, "Hey if you guys throw the game, I'll cut you a portion of my winnings."

[Josh Jackson @JoshJackson10]

@shauna_howell1 🪄🪄🪄

[Shauna Howell @shauna_howell1]

I definitely don't usually use this many textures in a design, but this time things got a little out of hand haha. The key is to keep everything pretty subtle, and focus on using opacity, blend modes, and the blend layer panel to control the way everything interacts.

[Big 12 Conference @Big12Conference]

. @CoachSark needed some help to beat the Sun Devils.

no help tonight. game 1 taken. 🥎

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@bordeauxyoutube HUGE.

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@turakk276 It’s not even a good skin?? Who is buying that one anyway??

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@42Cyc @twiggysays Brother he averaged 150 yards a game with 5 touchdowns and 4 picks and threw for more than 200 yards once.

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@EthWestNWA Why do they have the block state logo underneath the script state logo for MSU???

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@rudy_betrayed @GianmarcoSoresi Tom and Jerry are not Looney Tunes. They were owned by MGM.

[John Kennedy @FrazzleMyGimp]

“wait a second… Heat rises” (it hits me) “heat rises!”

Bank teller on floor: what?

“Heat rises!”

(I rush at the armed robber and he shoots me in the face killing me instantly. It’s unclear what my plan was)

[Josh Jackson @JoshJackson10]

@mattjlange I totally misunderstood what this post was saying. My bad!

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@CANNONSANCHEZ @Buccaneers @BucsFoundation @NFL @PAGMETER @paulmeadors @DylanMorgan_TV @gabecamarillo_ Congrats Coach!!

[Josh Jackson @JoshJackson10]

@adameargle This yours??

[Nicholas Kole @FromHappyRock]

it is imperative that you let me cook

[Josh Jackson @JoshJackson10]

@PlatanoMan @jeremylovesyall If you had done about one more minute of google searching instead of stopping at the AI summary then you would have found out!

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@BSDtakes @ZachLowe_NBA I would give it all up to have Luka back.

[Josh Jackson @JoshJackson10]

@adameargle W teacher. W dad.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Joy is a competitive super power.

Alysa Liu retired from figure skating at 16.
She was tired of not not having fun, tired of being consumed by her sport.

She came back two years later with a new goal: to have as much fun on the ice as possible. And now she’s an Olympic gold medalist.

Liu won her first national title when she was just 13. But by 16, after competing in the 2022 Olympics, she decided she’d had enough and stepped away. She said pressure and losing her identity trying to be an elite athlete made it all miserable.

But then, she said she went on a ski trip that reminded her just how much fun she could have doing a sport. Something in her brain clicked. Maybe she could bring fun to figure skating. Maybe she could approach it in a way that could be full of joy and life and love.

She unretired at 18 and won a world championship the next year. At 20, she was ready to face these Olympic games differently than in 2022.

Liu went into the women’s figure skating final in third place. After her short program, she said:

“Even if I mess up and fall, that’s totally okay, too. I’m fine with any outcome, as long as I’m out there.”

One of the greatest competitive advantages is having fun. People love to romanticize the athlete, artist, or entrepreneur who has a chip on their shoulder, fueled by anger and resentment.

But the truth is that if you’re not having fun, you are not going to last long at whatever it is you do, and you certainly won’t get the best out of yourself. There’s a foolish idea that you either have to be full of intensity or full of joy. But that’s nonsense.

It’s no surprise one of the first things out of Alysa’s mouth after her free skate was: “That was so much fun!”

Joy and intensity can coexist, and in the best performers, they almost always do.

Alysa is unapologetically authentic and true to her values. She has said where she used to skate to win and be technically perfect, she now uses competition as a chance to show her art, to have fun, and to put herself out there.

She’s a fierce athlete with an infectious sense of joy in her sport.

And she broke USA's 24-year gold medal draught in women’s figure skating doing it.

Excellence requires focus, determination, a little bit of crazy, at times obsession, and living a mundane lifestyle that many people would find boring.

But excellence also requires that you find deep joy in your craft, that you learn how to have fun while working hard.

What makes for excellence—and not just in sports, but in anything—is the combination of intensity and joy. It’s the latter that makes the former sustainable.

[Josh Jackson @JoshJackson10]

@chris_kratovil I feel like Deandre Jordan needs to make the list somehow.