The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Leading by Example - Why I Cut My Hair
Aired: 2019-10-09
Duration: 04:36


=== Why I Cut My Hair (03:23) ===

[00:00:00]  Greetings my esteemed subscribers.
[00:00:02]  Today I want to talk a bit about why what has happened.
[00:00:07]  What has happened with my golden and glorious hair.
[00:00:12]  I have after a few months of decision making decided to cut it off for a few different reasons and yeah as you might imagine this is not something I did on a whim.
[00:00:25]  It's something I have spent a lot of time thinking about.
[00:00:28]  But the main reason and the first reason that made me do it is that I want to present myself in the best possible way for others.
[00:00:38]  I do believe that I am in a position that I can act as a role model for others, primarily younger guys who perhaps only see weak white men in films, in media, in school, etc.
[00:00:51]  So it's important for me to present myself as an antidote of sorts.
[00:00:56]  So everything I do must be something I want to be mirrored in other guys.
[00:01:03]  So simply put I want to live so that others can see this guy does this.
[00:01:08]  I will emulate that because then my life will get better.
[00:01:12]  And I've always said that men should have knit tidy short haircuts.
[00:01:17]  Even when I had long hair myself I said to everyone this is not the haircut I recommend for you.
[00:01:23]  This is just my aesthetics.
[00:01:26]  But as it is right now I have decided to take a step to be even more congruent with my philosophy.
[00:01:33]  So now no one can look at me and say oh the golden one has long hair so now I can have long hair as well.
[00:01:40]  So that is the first reason and the second reason is a bit more practical and that's simply because I've begun to train a bit more Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA and as you can imagine it gets easier and more practical with short hair but that is a very secondary reason because I've trained a lot of both even when I had long hair.
[00:02:01]  Now you might say it's a bad move on my part because I have a certain appearance, I have a certain aesthetics, I can reach more people if I have a characteristic look but let's be real here, I don't know how much more I can grow on YouTube.
[00:02:18]  YouTube has put a glass ceiling on me so to speak.
[00:02:25]  I am right now 2500 subscribers away from the grand goal, the grand life goal on YouTube which is of course 100,000 subscribers.
[00:02:37]  I'm so close yet so far away.
[00:02:39]  The only way I can reach it is if some really big channel gives me a shout out which I don't think will happen either.
[00:02:45]  So yeah imagine my frustration coming that close but getting getting shut off.
[00:02:50]  It's yeah it is sad.
[00:02:54]  But I made a separate video on that a few weeks back so you can watch that.
[00:02:58]  So I explain a bit how I deal with that.
[00:03:01]  But yeah to long story short I focus on other things such as training such as Legio Gloria, Utename Nutrition etc.
[00:03:10]  So I'm not staring myself blind at the lack of YouTube growth because it is what it is.
[00:03:16]  It's not all too much I can do.
[00:03:17]  I can continue making videos and I will do it.
[00:03:20]  I will make plenty of videos over the autumn.

=== New Hair, New Insights (01:13) ===

[00:03:23]  So no worries there.
[00:03:25]  It is just a bit demotivating with how YouTube is behaving.
[00:03:29]  But again, it is what it is.
[00:03:31]  Let's approach this in a stoic manner and set the pace high anyway.
[00:03:35]  So I just wanted to share my thoughts behind cutting my hair since it's been with me for such a long time.
[00:03:42]  I'm trying out new haircuts or new styles of hair right now.
[00:03:47]  Last time I had short hair was in back was back in 2013.
[00:03:52]  So quite a long time since I had short hair.
[00:03:57]  But yeah, I will experiment a bit, see what is the most aesthetic.
[00:04:00]  And yeah, should I, for whatever reason, change my mind, I will simply save it out for a later time.
[00:04:08]  It is here, after all, it will grow back.
[00:04:11]  So, yeah, that is the update from me.
[00:04:16]  And as always, check out all the links in the description box.
[00:04:21]  If you haven't already read my book, I definitely encourage you to order it and partake in some wisdom.
[00:04:29]  I will guarantee that you will gain some new insights at least.
[00:04:34]  So, thank you for watching.
[00:04:35]  XOXO.