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When you think of the “Steve Jobs outfit,” most people think of a black turtleneck, plain jeans, and New Balance sneakers.ance. The phenomenon of wearing the same clothes almost every day is not uncommon among important, influential and famous personalities, and Mark Zuckerberg, for example, dresses this way. What is behind this style of dressing?

During each day, we have to make a huge number of decisions – about what to do at work, after work, what to buy, whether to go to the gym… Some of these decisions are very important, others are trivial. It is no news that the human brain – like other things – has only a limited capacity when it comes to decision-making.

Decision fatigue

In practice, this means that if we use up most of our capacity with our decisions first thing in the morning, we won't have much left for the rest of the day. The more mental energy we devote to unimportant decisions, the less we have left for truly important tasks and matters. There is a certain fatigue, which in extreme cases can take its toll in the form of wrong decisions, mistakes and missteps. It is therefore understandable that those who have to make many more important decisions in a day want to save this capacity as much as possible.

The so-called "decision fatigue" was described by John Tierney, co-author of the bestseller "Willpower": "Decision fatigue explains why otherwise reasonable people get angry with their colleagues or family members, overspend on clothes or buy unhealthy food at the supermarket, ” explains Tierney. Regardless of how much rationality and maturity a given individual is equipped with, each of his decisions will require a kind of "biological tax". Tierney points out that decision fatigue is different from normal fatigue because we are not aware of it.

For successful people and famous personalities, such as Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg or Albert Einstein, we can encounter a targeted effort to reduce the number of necessary decisions to a complete minimum. One logical step in this effort is to wear the same style of clothing every day, all year round. All these people who have chosen a monotonous wardrobe have understood that the less time they spend making decisions, the more mental energy they have left for more important things. When the founder was FacebookWhen Mark Zuckerberg was asked why he practically always wears a gray T-shirt and jeans, he replied that he wanted to reduce his decisions to the bare minimum and focus primarily on serving the community as best he could.

Steve Jobs Again – in terms of wardrobe – he became famous for wearing a black turtleneck, blue jeans and New Bal sneakersance. He also knew very well that the more mental capacity he could save by reducing some decisions, the better. He then dedicated the saved capacity to his work for society Apple.

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