When do people start going for the Record

I recently got my hair cut, so I was wondering how long was/is the longest hair. Apparently someone in China grew her hair out to fifteen and a half feet. It took her twenty one years to do it! So I guess the question is, why? Now the obvious answer is to get the record but before, when her hair was only four feet long...was she always thinking, it's my destiny to grow my hair super long and be put into the illustrious book of Guiness?

How does she wash it? How does she move? Walk around with a wheel-barrel full of hair, it's gotta be heavy! What about knots. She can never work around heavy machinery or any food business.

When does that switch flip to, yeah, I have a shot at a world record?