2/13/2023 0 Comments Declutter closetIn my uniform, people see me as they want to.”~Alice Gregory I can look young or old, rich or poor, cool or humble. It’s almost never inappropriate, and it has the magical quality of taking on the connotations of its surroundings. It is the most comfortable, flattering and inoffensive outfit I’ve been able to come up with. If it’s cold and wet, I wear a black down rain jacket. If it’s cold and dry, I wear a camel coat. My hair, I have decided, is my main accessory. According to Alice Gregory, a writer: “When the weather permits-and it does in New York from September to May-I wear a black cotton turtleneck, skinny blue jeans that (crucially) are not tight and a pair of black boots. Matilda Kahl, a Sony Music manager, wears the same outfit to work every day a white, silk blouse and black trousers. ![]() The Queen of England chooses the same style of dress, albeit in different colors, on her outings. Ahh, but it seems many women are catching on too. They are all men, it’s easier for them to just throw on the same outfit and head out the door. Whether you agree with his policies or not, he’s mastered the art of a simple wardrobe. Likewise, President Obama prefers to limit his non-essential decisions by choosing the same blue/gray suits to wear each day. “I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.” When asked about his reasoning he states: Think about it, have you ever seen a photo of him when he wasn’t wearing a black turtleneck and blue jeans? Or Mark Zuckerburg, Facebook CEO, who recently shared a photo on Facebook showing his wardrobe which consists entirely of tee-shirts and gray hoodies (don’t worry, he pairs them with jeans). In order to reduce decision fatigue, many successful people are opting-out of large, complicated wardrobes. Successful people who have reduced their wardrobe decisions You may find yourself at a 3:00 PM class or meeting unable to decide on the topic sentence for your term paper, or the focus of a sales pitch simply because you have “used up” your decision-making on all the little decisions earlier in the day. In a nutshell, a person makes tens of thousands of decisions in a day pants or skirt, cream or sugar (or both), bagel or croissant, coat or sweater, car or bus and you haven’t even made it out of the door yet! The concept of decision fatigue states that the more decisions a person makes in a day, the less effective those decisions become. Decision fatigue refers to the deteriorating quality of decisions made by an individual, after a long session of decision-making. You may own hundreds of articles of clothing, yet when faced with the choice of what outfit to put together on any given day, you are suddenly paralyzed with indecision.Īccording to researchers, this is a real phenomenon. ![]() I think we all at some point have looked at the contents of our wardrobes and thought, “I have nothing to wear!”
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