Brilio.net/en - From Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg, from Karl Lagerfeld to Christopher Nolan, many successful people are often seen using the same type of clothes
And turns out there is strategic benefit from this simple act.
Recently, founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg caused an internet discussion after he posted a photo of his closet in Instagram. The photo captured all the clothing selections that he have, which includes a tidy rack of many of the same grey shirt and hoodies that has become his signature style.
Zuck is not the only big-shot persona who adopts this same-outfit strategy. The late Apple founder, Steve Jobs is also known with his iconic black mock turtleneck or President Barrack Obama with his versatile blue or grey power suits.
Turn out the main motive behind this habit is to boost productivity by avoiding decision fatigue.
Asked during a Q&A session with students on his fashion choice, Zuck answered: "I really want to clear my life to make it simpler so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community," he said.
President Obama supported this rational, Youll see I wear only gray or blue suits. Im trying to pare down decisions. I dont want to make decisions about what Im eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.
Even experts are on board with this. The idea behind capsule wardrobe as this trend is called is to spend less time making non-work and non-critical decisions and to preserve all the mental energy available for more important stuffs (such as like inventing iPhone, in Jobs case). Research suggests making too many decisions in a day will lead to decision fatigue, thus reducing the quality for the real important decisions.
Reducing one less frivolous decision in the morning about fashion is believed to result in better decisions on things that really matter.
So whether your life goal is to bake more muffins or saving the world from doom, perhaps its time to de-clutter your closet?
(Reported by: Nadia Bintoro)
(brl/tis)
