Rob Palmer

[ELDORA SPEEDWAY @EldoraSpeedway]

💎 6 #KingsRoyal crowns (1 from record)
💎 11 #NOSvilleNationals titles (1 from record)
💎 6 #NationalOpen wins (the record)

For more than two decades, the Crown Jewels of Sprint Car Racing continue to run through @DonnySchatz.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On the 27th straight day of filming “Forrest Gump,” Tom Hanks was tired & worried.

During a scene on the famous park bench, Hanks stopped & said to director Bob Zemeckis,

“Hey, Bob…is anybody going to care about this movie? I don’t think anybody’s going to care.”

Bob replied,

“It’s a minefield, Tom. You never know what’s good…It’s a minefield! It’s a goddam minefield! We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.”

Tom Hanks told this story after he was asked, “When I ask for a memory from your career, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?”

He said that what Zemeckis said was true of every movie he’s worked on:

“There’s never any guarantee...You do not know if it is going to work out.”

Takeaway 1:

Hanks is the 5th-most highest-grossing actor of all time.

And yet, the stickiest memory of his career is the feeling of uncertainty.

Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties.

In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization.

“At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.”

Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

Takeaway 2:

Those who possess Negative Capability, who can sit with uncertainty, who can spend months or years in the minefield that is working on something while knowing that there is a real possibility no one will care about it—they often possess another quality.

They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it.

When asked about one of his movies that commercially failed, Hanks said,

"I loved making that movie. I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it."

As Ryan Holiday once told me, "The work has to be the win."

You control the effort, he says, not the results.

"So ultimately, you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

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“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.” — Forrest Gump

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[Rob Palmer @robp51]

@MNUFC @Amb761 maybe we can win one?

[Chaz Mootz @ChazMootzCCX]

What a night it was at Bemidji High School last night. The 1st-ever Unified Basketball game took place at the BHS Gymnasium and it was jam-packed full of fans.

Great atmosphere, great turnout, and postgame interviews were knocked out of the park.

More: https://t.co/CnZoGq1a8r

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Did you know if you hold an ermine up to your ear, you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by an ermine?

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Our society…

[Rob Palmer @robp51]

To all of you!

[Kansas Men’s Basketball @KUHoops]

In 49 states, it's just basketball.

but this is 𝗞𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗦

[NDSU Football @NDSUfootball]

Frisco.

[Rob Palmer @robp51]

@McFeely_Inforum Any word on Montana state travel progress?

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

This is why football is a beautiful sport

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

"She said, 'Oh no, I've been in prison for 10 months now listening to Russian. I want to talk'" -- Roger Carstens, presidential envoy for hostage affairs, talks about meeting Brittney Griner and bringing her home

[NDSU Wrestling @NDSUwrestling]

149: No need for introductions as Kellyn March pins Kaleb Burgess in 13 seconds!

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

Wasp nest removal using drones.

[Rob Palmer @robp51]

@EricCliett Swimsuit

[Rob Palmer @robp51]

@EricCliett Does it matter

[Rob Palmer @robp51]

@sfstampede @mr_brunadm

[Rob Palmer @robp51]

@McFeely_Inforum

[Matt Kerney @MattKerney]

2022 FCS 2nd Round Attendance (Highest-Lowest)

#4 Montana St/Weber St: 16,397
#3 NDSU/Montana: 12,929
#5 William & Mary/Gardner-Webb: 7,110
#8 Holy Cross/NH: 6,265
#1 SDSU/Delaware: 6,117
#6 Samford/SLU: 4,587
#7 UIW/Furman: 2,373
#2 Sacramento St/Richmond: N/A

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