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

它長18寸，12歲，這根鬍鬚獲得了世界鬍鬚和鬍鬚冠軍。

Who is this guy?

這傢伙是誰？

Why did he grow his beard, and how much money did he make from it?

他為什麼要留鬍子，他從中賺了多少錢？

In Minnesota, United States of America, I found M.

在美利堅合眾國明尼蘇達州，我找到了M。

J.

J.

I'm M.

我是M.

J.

J.

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

我和約翰遜有一個世界上最好的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.

12年前，MJ坐在黑暗的地下室裡，看到了一張世界最佳鬍鬚大賽的照片。

This competition was so weird, so ridiculous, so crazy that M.

這場比賽太奇怪了，太荒唐了，太瘋狂了，M。

J wanted to try and get first place at it overnight.

J想試著在一夜之間拿到第一名。

I just fell in love with the idea.

我只是愛上了這個想法。

It became my dream.

這成了我的夢想。

So he decided to grow a beard.

於是他決定留鬍子。

He put away his razor, stopped shaving and let his facial hair grow longer and longer.

他收起刮鬚刀，不再刮鬍子，任由面部的頭髮越長越長。

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.

多年來，我知道自己想種出世界冠軍級別的鬍鬚或鬍子，因為事實證明，競爭性的鬍鬚種植是很嚴肅的事情。

It wasn't enough to just have a lot of hair on your face like this.

光是這樣臉上的頭髮多還不夠。

You have to have unique hair at a beard contest.

在鬍鬚大賽上，你必須要有獨特的髮型。

Judges mark you down for a variety of things.

法官給你打分的原因有很多種。

I like to break it down into three categories.

我喜歡把它分為三類。

It's your beard, your outfit and your stage presence.

這是你的鬍子，你的衣服和你的舞臺表現。

Mhm.

嗯

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

而且不是隻有一兩類，而是有16類。

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

在世錦賽上，你可以有，啊，匈牙利鬍子，自然鬍子，英國鬍子，自由式鬍子。

There's a lot of styles that gets celebrate.

有很多風格，得到慶祝。

So he picked one category and went for it, really didn't know what was gonna happen, but I knew I was gonna try.

所以他選了一個類別就去了，真的不知道會發生什麼，但我知道我要去嘗試。

His first attempts at growing an epic beard looked terrible.

他第一次嘗試種植史詩般的鬍子，看起來很糟糕。

And to make things worse when the beard was growing, he was made fun off.

更糟糕的是，當鬍子長出來的時候，他被取笑了。

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

每個人都認為他是個瘋子，他看起來很可怕。

Strangers come up to me on the street.

陌生人在街上向我走來。

Still, the colleague names sometimes.

不過，同事的名字有時候還是。

His first competitions were a failure, but he did not give up.

他的第一次比賽是失敗的，但他沒有放棄。

Instead, he tried again and again and again, working hard on perfecting his style.

而他卻一次次地嘗試，一次次地努力完善自己的風格。

It took him four years until he finally won a beard competition.

他花了四年時間，直到他終於贏得了一場鬍鬚比賽。

One gold medal.

一枚金牌。

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.

那是邁克爾-約翰遜，他除了贏得比賽外，還以這種造型贏得了全世界的欽佩，他成了世界名人。

His beard appeared in media all over the world on Beard products that were sold in the U.

他的鬍鬚出現在世界各地的媒體上，出現在美國銷售的鬍鬚產品上。

S.

S.

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

或者是歐洲的卡車上的廣告，甚至是亞洲的報紙上的廣告。

He also got to travel, joined beard clubs around the world and make life long friends with a lot of hair.

他還可以去旅遊，加入世界各地的鬍鬚俱樂部，並結交了很多頭髮的終身朋友。

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.

天哪，這真是一本非常酷、非常神奇的世界通行證，如果有E，我不知道自己會在哪裡。

M.

M.

J is a great example that it doesn't matter if you have a crazy dream.

J是一個很好的例子，你有一個瘋狂的夢想並不重要。

It doesn't matter if you're bad at it.

你的技術不好也沒關係。

At first, you just have to give your dream 110% off your efforts.

一開始，你只需要給你的夢想110%的努力。

Your efforts will pay off.

你的努力會得到回報。

Sometimes in the most surprising who is.

有時候在最讓人驚訝的是誰。

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

你應該嘗試一些東西，即使你不擅長，因為你不知道下一步是什麼。

YouTube.

YouTube。

If you like this video, then I think you're gonna love Knots Academy.

如果你喜歡這個視頻，那麼我想你一定會喜歡上Knots學院。

It's a new online school.

這是一個新的網校。

We just started to give you a voice.

我們剛剛開始給你一個聲音。

Yes, making videos has given me a voice, and with this voice you can reach millions of people on the Internet tell them stories that you care about and actually change their opinion.

是的，做視頻給了我一個聲音，有了這個聲音，你就可以在互聯網上接觸到千千萬萬的人，告訴他們你關心的故事，並真正改變他們的看法。

This'll skill off, making videos change my life.

這將技能關，製作視頻改變了我的生活。

And I think it can change yours, not.

而我認為它可以改變你的，不。

Academy has a lot of courses that are alive.

學院有很多課程是活的。

They're not pre recorded.

他們沒有預錄。

So there is really people from the nasty daily team that teach you how to make videos like we do give you your voice that you so desperately need in today's world, if you're a business, if you're an entrepreneur, if your family person you need a voice on the Internet and mass Academy helps you get that voice clicked on the link below.

所以，真的有來自討厭的日常團隊的人，教你如何像我們一樣製作視頻，讓你發出你的聲音，你在今天的世界裡迫切需要這樣的聲音，如果你是一個企業，如果你是一個企業家，如果你的家庭人，你需要在互聯網上發出聲音，大眾學院幫助你獲得聲音點擊下面的鏈接。

If you want to see the courses that we offer, we have very limited spots.

如果你想看看我們提供的課程，我們的名額非常有限。

So grab yours today.

所以今天就加快腳步吧。

Thank you so much.

非常感謝你。

And I'll see you tomorrow for another video.

明天我們再看一段視頻。