Quote of the Day: Ryan Gosling on Wit & Attitude

The year is nearly packed away, and the air has that late-December permission slip: reflect, reset, and maybe reinvent. Before January asks for discipline, December invites experimentation, the kind that reminds you you’re still allowed to change. That’s the playful nerve behind this line: “You know us crazy kids. We’ll do anything crazy to our hair.”

On the surface, it’s a joke about bad dye jobs and impulsive cuts. Underneath, it’s a blueprint for low-stakes courage. Hair is a safe canvas: it grows back, it fades, it forgives. Youth understands this instinctively, identity isn’t discovered once, it’s tested in drafts. As adults, we often trade that freedom for “consistency,” then wonder why life feels smaller.

Here’s the useful translation: keep a place in your life where experimentation is cheap and reversible. If you’ve been stuck, don’t demand a total reinvention, make a “hair-level” change. Try a new workflow for a week. Pitch the idea you keep editing in your head. Join the class, publish the rough version, have the honest conversation. Small acts of courage rebuild your sense of agency, and agency is the engine of growth.

Ryan Gosling earned his credibility the long way, from a Canadian child actor to a Hollywood lead, award-winning performer, and creative force who’s also stepped behind the camera and into music. His career is proof that reinvention isn’t a one-time makeover; it’s a practice.

Today, pick one “reversible risk” and do it before the day ends: change one outward habit (your look, your desk, your routine) to signal an inward decision. Let it be a small rebellion in service of a bigger life, may you meet the new year with your curiosity intact.