Advice Posts

  1. Advice From a Bearded Man: Naturalist John Muir

    We recently stumbled upon some stellar advice from the great farmer, inventor, sheepherder, explorer, and writer, John Muir. "Wander all summer," says Muir. It's hard not to listen carefully to a guy with a wilderness beard like his.

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  2. Advice From a Bearded Man: Walt Whitman

    The father of free verse offers some wonderful guidance in the preface to Leaves of Grass. As this photo attests, he practiced what he preached: “Take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men.”

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  3. Advice from a Mustachioed Man: William Thomas Boothby

    California assemblyman, author, and renowned San Francisco barkeep William Thomas Boothby (1862-1930) offers some valuable guidance.

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  4. Advice from a Mustachioed Man: Theodore Roosevelt

    A rancher and world traveler, the 26th POTUS ignored doctors who told him never to get a desk job. As he tells us, it’s not the critics that matter. It’s all about “the man who is in the arena.”

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  5. Advice from a Bearded Quartet: The Beatles

    People have called them the greatest band of all time, and we’re not inclined to disagree. Here, we analyze the lyrical advice of the mop-topped—and bearded—quartet.

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  6. Advice from a Bearded Man: Luciano Pavarotti

    Sage wisdom courtesy of one of the world’s greatest opera stars.

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  7. Advice from a Bearded Coach: P.J. Carlesimo

    The list of history’s greatest NCAA basketball coaches are a largely clean-shaven bunch. Sure, there’s a smattering of mustaches in there—Clem Haskins, Fran Dunphy, Nolan Richardson—but there’s just one full-fledged beard: P.J. Carlesimo’s.

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