#BestAdvice: The Secret To Never Losing Your Hair

(Another blog on the #bestadvice I've received over the years)

Stretching before a race. Photo: Veer Hossain.

When I was in college, I decided I wanted to learn how to cut hair.  I didn't want to actually go to hair cutting school or whatever they call it.  I was just curious to learn how the process was done.  The woman who owned the place near campus assumed this was an attempt by a poor college student to get a free haircut, so she gave me one (that wasn't my intent, but I still took the free haircut :).  The offshoot was that in ensuing visits, the folks who cut hair would tell me different tricks of the trade- cutting a guideline, the pros and cons of clippers, etc.  It was actually quite interesting, and I may have ended up learning the secret to never losing my hair.