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Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by batista »

suyash wrote: post #26
freshhawk wrote: post #10

You aren't Steve Jobs. I would give the opposite advice. The easiest thing you can do to make people like you more, trust you more and respect your opinion more is to dress well and appropriately. Job's outfit and Zuckerberg's hoodies work the same way (whether that was the intention or not, I think not). The same part of human brains that stupidly subconsciously judges people by the way they are dressed is doing the…

You aren't Steve Jobs. - So what, who says he can't emulate Steve Jobs?

I say it. People don't like emulations of other people, especially if the "emulators" consider some superficial thing like this part of their success.

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by scrrr »

freshhawk wrote: post #10

You aren't Steve Jobs. I would give the opposite advice. The easiest thing you can do to make people like you more, trust you more and respect your opinion more is to dress well and appropriately. Job's outfit and Zuckerberg's hoodies work the same way (whether that was the intention or not, I think not). The same part of human brains that stupidly subconsciously judges people by the way they are dressed is doing the…

I have found a shirt that fits me perfectly so I bought a couple more of these. As long as it's a good fit, you enjoy wearing it, people don't scratch their heads looking at you, why not wear the same thing all the time?

Of course not looking sloppy is important (hair, fingernails, showers, clean clothes, etc.), but other things are much much more important. Integrity, getting things done, an inspiring and/or knowledgable personality..

Also: I don't know why Steve Jobs has to mentioned in every second blog post on HN. Yes, he wore the same clothes all the time. But you don't need his permission to do so. You should be your own boss, and your own fashion consultant. (When in doubt, ask your wife or girlfriend though. ;))

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by ricardobeat »

qq66 wrote: post #29
kristofferR wrote: post #6

I'd like to see a life so absurdly optimized for productivity that the maximum 10 seconds you save every morning by not having to decide what to wear is worth even mentioning. The next post will probably be about opening doors more effectively, like Kramer, to save a couple of seconds off the time spent opening doors each day.

You also don't need to wear the same thing every day to avoid thinking about what to wear. I never think about what to wear, just put on clothes randomly from the drawers. Sometimes my girlfriend has to tell me to go change, like when I wore a green sweater and green pants.

What's wrong with that? The colors match ;)

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by [deleted] »

suyash wrote: post #26
freshhawk wrote: post #10

You aren't Steve Jobs. I would give the opposite advice. The easiest thing you can do to make people like you more, trust you more and respect your opinion more is to dress well and appropriately. Job's outfit and Zuckerberg's hoodies work the same way (whether that was the intention or not, I think not). The same part of human brains that stupidly subconsciously judges people by the way they are dressed is doing the…

You aren't Steve Jobs. - So what, who says he can't emulate Steve Jobs?

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Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by shrub »

Why I don't wear the same shirt everyday: I think shopping for clothes is fun. I'm not awake enough in the morning to do anything but pick out clothes. My company doesn't have branded T-Shirts?

I guess if I tried to do a start-up, it would surely fail as I stare bleary eyed into my drawer of shirts, having just been distracted from the most important idea I've ever had.

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by batista »

lotharbot wrote: post #11
kristofferR wrote: post #6

I'd like to see a life so absurdly optimized for productivity that the maximum 10 seconds you save every morning by not having to decide what to wear is worth even mentioning. The next post will probably be about opening doors more effectively, like Kramer, to save a couple of seconds off the time spent opening doors each day.

It's not so much "saving 10 seconds" as it is "avoiding cognitive context switching". If you happen to be thinking about something important, you don't want to interrupt that thought process to look through your clothes and decide what to wear, or what to have for breakfast, or which car to drive, or any number of other trivial decisions. If you can replace those with automatic non-decisions ("take the top shirt out…

>It's not so much "saving 10 seconds" as it is "avoiding cognitive context switching".

Humanity FAIL. As if you have some very crucial things to decide on the 15 minutes you spend waking up, dressing, shaving and such...

What "context switch"? You are not an OS, and you are not even fully awake, heck you're not even awake before coffee, much less just after you woke up.

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by suyash »

suyash wrote: post #26
freshhawk wrote: post #10

You aren't Steve Jobs. I would give the opposite advice. The easiest thing you can do to make people like you more, trust you more and respect your opinion more is to dress well and appropriately. Job's outfit and Zuckerberg's hoodies work the same way (whether that was the intention or not, I think not). The same part of human brains that stupidly subconsciously judges people by the way they are dressed is doing the…

You aren't Steve Jobs. - So what, who says he can't emulate Steve Jobs?

I say it. People don't like emulations of other people, especially if the "emulators" consider some superficial thing like this part of their success.

- I call that BS. That is your small thinking and so you should limit yourself to it. I say go emulate successful people and do what you want to do.

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by mzahir »

Inspired by Sony, Jobs created a uniform for Apple employees (to bond them) but the idea was poorly received and thereby, scrapped. He ended up wearing the uniforms, which 'grew' on him. Even though he later justified his uniform as convenience, their primary intent wasn't to free up his cognitive cycles for Apple.

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by batista »

suyash wrote: post #26
freshhawk wrote: post #10

You aren't Steve Jobs. I would give the opposite advice. The easiest thing you can do to make people like you more, trust you more and respect your opinion more is to dress well and appropriately. Job's outfit and Zuckerberg's hoodies work the same way (whether that was the intention or not, I think not). The same part of human brains that stupidly subconsciously judges people by the way they are dressed is doing the…

You aren't Steve Jobs. - So what, who says he can't emulate Steve Jobs?

>I call that BS. That is your small thinking and so you should limit yourself to it. I say go emulate successful people and do what you want to do.

Right, go emulate the dressing habits of successful people, that's so much better advice than my "small thinking".

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