It is 18 inches long and 12 years old, and this beard won the world beard and mustache championships.

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 M.

J.

I'm M.

J.

Johnson and I have one of the world's best B.

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 M.

J 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.

Mhm.

And there are not just one or two categories but 16 categories.

At the world championships, you can have, Ah, Hungarian mustache, natural mustache, English mustache, freestyle mustache.

There's a lot of styles that gets celebrate.

So he picked one category and went for it, really didn't 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 off.

Everybody thought he was a crazy guy, and he looked horrendous.

Strangers come up to me on the street.

Still, the colleague 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.

One gold medal.

That's Michael Johnson, And in addition to winning the competition, he won the admiration off 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 U.

S.

Or on ads on trucks in Europe or even on newspapers in Asia.

He also got to travel, joined beard clubs around the world and make life long 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 with E.

M.

J 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 110% off your efforts.

Your efforts will pay off.

Sometimes in the most surprising who is.

You should try it something, even if you're not good at it because you don't know what's next.

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