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the man you're looking at
has the world's best beard officially
it is 18 inches long and 12
years old and this beard won
the world beard and mustache
championship
who is this guy why did he grow his
beard
and how much money did he make from
it in minnesota
united states of america i found mj
hi i'm mj johnson and i have one of the
world's
best beers 12 years ago mj was sitting
in a dark basement when he saw a photo
of a competition
for the world's best beard
this competition was so weird so
ridiculous
so crazy that mj wanted to try
and get first place at it overnight
i just fell in love with the idea it
became my dream
so he decided to grow a beard
he put away his razor stopped shaving
and let his facial hair grow longer and
longer
for years i knew i wanted to grow
a world championship level beard or
mustache
because it turns out competitive beard
growing
is serious business it wasn't enough to
just have a lot of hair on your face
like this
you have to have unique hair
at a beard contest judges mark you down
for
a variety of things i like to break it
down into three categories
it's your beard your outfit and your
stage presence
and there are not just one or two
categories
but 16 categories at the world
championships
you can have a hungarian mustache
natural mustache
english mustache freestyle mustache
there's a lot of styles that get
celebrated
so he picked one category and went for
it
i really didn't know you know what was
gonna happen
but i knew i was gonna try his first
attempts
at growing an epic beard looked terrible
and to make things worse when the beard
was growing he was made fun of
everybody thought he was a crazy guy and
he looked horrendous
strangers come up to me on the street
they'll uh the collie names sometimes
his first competitions were a failure
but he did not give up
instead he tried again and again and
again
working hard on perfecting his style it
took him four
years until he finally won a beard
competition
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and in addition to winning the
competition he won the admiration of the
world
with this kind of look he became world
famous
his beard appeared in media all over the
world
on beard products that were sold in the
us or on
ads on trucks in europe or even on
newspapers in asia
he also got to travel join beard clubs
around the world
and make lifelong friends with a lot of
hair
gosh it's just been a really really cool
amazing
passport to the world that i don't know
where i'd be without it
mj is a great example that it doesn't
matter if you have a crazy dream
it doesn't matter if you're bad at it at
first
you just have to give your dream a
hundred and ten percent of your efforts
your efforts will pay off sometimes
in the most surprising way
you should try at something even if
you're not good at it
because you don't know what's next
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