You’ve tried. Heaven knows you’ve tried to ignore your receding hairline or the balding patches on your head. Your life would be so much easier if you weren’t self-conscious every time you walked into a club, met a stranger, or looked in the mirror. But while you make an effort to stay out of the light, what are those around you thinking about your balding or thinning hair?

Probably…not what you think.

A man I know has 7 children (4 his, 3 hers). It was not uncommon for the family to get together on Sunday evenings and play basketball. During games of P.I.G. or Around the World, the children would run up to their father and rub the bald spot on the middle of his head for luck.

“Watch it,” this man would say. “You’ll wake the evil genie.”

Every week it was the same thing. And if you ask this man’s kids what some of their best memories as children were, they will all say the same thing, “Dad’s bald spot and the evil genie.”

The best advice we can give men with thinning hair or male pattern baldness, it’s to surround yourself with people who love you. Because odds are, they have come to relate your appearance to your personality. And they love it. Thinning hair doesn’t matter to a four-year-old child, or a woman who really loves you.

The problem is that we irrationally think everyone is staring at our heads. Especially, if you’re bald or nearly bald. But the truth is, unless you’re dating or in new relationships, no one really cares. They are more concerned with how they look than whether or not you have thinning hair.

Don’t believe me? Try this experiment: make the effort to meet someone new. Talk to them for five minutes. After walking away, have someone ask your new acquaintance what you look like. Unless the new acquaintance is on the lookout for a new relationship, the description will be minimal at best. And they likely won’t say anything about your thinning hair or baldness.

Many people even say that baldness is a sign of character. No, not everyone is going to believe that, but who cares what the whole world thinks? Does your family like you? Does your hair, or lack thereof, affect the way they feel about you?

The truth of the matter is, a story about an evil genie is going to stick with these 7 children long after their father has passed on. It’s an attribute and experience that will be passed down to grandchildren and possibly great grandchildren.

Now, if you’re still not comfortable with thinning hair, there are solutions. Like Volluma. But, if you take the time to really analyze who you’re trying to impress, you may discover that you, too, prefer to have an evil genie to a perfect head of hair.

Look Good, Feel Great!
Christopher Denison
www.volluma.net/men