I Wore The Exact Same Outfit For 90 Days Straight

what's going on guys I am Matthias if you're new here I am the CEO of three different startups and this channel is kind of dedicated to taking a day-to-day look at my you know my life as a leader and hopefully what we can learn here is that you don't have to have followers to be a leader you just have to have a light that works so today's video other than going through you know my day and the regularly scheduled events we're gonna be talking about why I wear the exact same outfit literally every single day the exact same thing you've probably noticed I hope I hope you've noticed so here's what I'll say like right off the bat is that I do have some regrets and those are towards the end of the video so make sure you stay to the end of the video if you are all considering wearing the exact same thing every day I don't know a lot of people are but I do have some modifications and some things that I wish I would have done differently but you know what I got the entire day ahead of me so right now deep work okay so my deep work is done now before I head to the office I'm about to head to the office right now I wanted to talk a little bit about kind of when it started when I started wearing the same thing every single day honestly about six months ago six months ago I started wearing literally just black and yellow my closet was literally just filled with things that were only black and yellow why did it start over whelmed way too many things in my life that I set up for myself that I just couldn't do [Music] and during this time of sheer overwhelm this was one of the ways that I combated it I committed to so many things some I could remove and some I couldn't remove so I needed to start optimizing for decision making I was basically suffering from decision fatigue this is where you have so many decisions in your day that it actually fatigues you and it actually causes you know some significant stress and damage on your health this is actually fairly common with leaders in like higher positions this is common with CEOs but we'll get into decision fatigue a little bit later in the video right now I actually have to head to work or I'm going to be late to a doper nope shoot so can't forget this or this where are my girls I gotta say goodbye to him then yellow-and-black was just too much and I started wearing just black it's a little different than the reason why I started just wearing all the same thing the reason why I started wearing all black was honestly depression I've honestly been depressed for quite some time maybe like six or seven months or something like that and that's one of the reasons why I go to therapy it's funny because about a month after I'd been wearing just straight black and that's it Gunnar is the only person that ever came up to me and was like hey man you doing okay wearing all black is technically a sign of like emotional issues and I was like what do you mean dude you're tripping you're crazy what are you talking about turns out he was right appreciate you looking at for me getting it wasn't a conscious decision to go emo because I was depressed I honestly didn't even realize it until months later looking back at like you know all the videos that I had been in just wearing straight black honestly at that time it just felt natural to wear all black I don't know just felt right so for the past 90 days I've been wearing pure black and that's pretty much it so has it helped with my decision fatigue what are my regrets [Music] things happened don't burn up shooting all right what's this video that we're shooting today just to make eating more fun heck yeah dude didn't eat breakfast this is gonna be perfect for you though and like I know you specifically or someone who really cares about fashion my question to you is could you wear one outfit for months straight just seeing his face is like straight up all black really I mean I wouldn't like enjoy it but not my personality well I think you use fashion as like a way to express creativity yeah I mean I think I was using fashion in that way I was like okay I'm trying to impress people and it was like much less about creativity for me than like trying to be some image you know actually thing when I first started to Dan's like that's when I first read a confession and that's why I thought of it was like oh you had had like these cool snap backs and like cool Jordans that's what got you booked on a job I think like as I just got older it's like I'm just gonna work because I like it and it's just yeah more like self-expression yeah I'm sorry sorry Brad what is up everybody and welcome to deaf or no foot pocket the video where we're a polishes don't porno so you're not going to lunch I choose solid meals and we already have another half of the video see you guys in an hour all right peace what's today's topic I'm waiting to hear this one outfit only which I I respect honestly why is that because it's something I tend to do in other facets of my life and I don't know clothes or something that I like I still have fun with I think for right now but I totally understand why you do it sort of eating like the same thing all the time like all it'll be driving home like you know McDonald's is closing quick I'm gonna call two days later yeah McDonald's closed oh no dude I'm spiraling right now when I started wearing like the same thing did you even notice not until we talked about it I think we talked about it for a while there's like one day I was like dude you've been wearing a lot of black this yeah and then you're like like yeah dude I only wear black now I have like 80 pairs of black pants and 80 black shirts I just go and pick one and word was about three weeks after I'd been wearing the same clothes really so that like what that told me was that no one cares there's no one's paying attention to you no one's like cares what you look like or what you wear you know I mean like that like opened my eyes that like I don't have to be putting on this front that just for like what I think other people are looking at one day away is gonna be the big third catch it up to you catching up to you you can't really catch up I'm always gonna be ahead in that I mean yeah so most people probably don't need to worry about decision fatigue because most people typically don't have tons and tons of decisions that are like constantly weighing down on them so how does someone get decision fatigue overwhelm is a very similar thing now it depends on where you're overwhelmed in your life is coming from but like typically in a work environment overwhelm comes from a skill gap in prioritization right you you're not prioritizing the right things everything seems important therefore you feel like you need to do everything and you can't ever get one thing done that actually makes impact at least that's what it feels like so then the question is how do you combat decision fatigue and it basically comes down to paring down your decisions and paring down your responsibilities so I did that big-time alright guys ready warm-up push-ups this is gonna get the blood pumping and down and Knuckles in the middle yeah I'm feeling good feel a little so we got a keynote so what's a keynote it's like an all-hands-on-deck meeting with the entire staff you're gonna be there Connor yeah you are because it's mandatory haha there's my wife where you goin where you goin hi there's someone sleepy someone just wake up from a nap in the park you know what do you see at the park squirrels and birds yeah so in reference to decision fatigue I had to look at like all the distractions in my life that was taking my attention away from things that I felt were truly essential and like fashion was one of those things that choice in the morning should like change into a thousand different options it was just not important and I was doing it for the wrong reasons so that doesn't mean that fashion isn't important it's just for me that wasn't a priority in my life dude I haven't even been in my office today this is what happens when I start blogging I have to make sure I have it all the right gear all you need is a camera but I'm obsessed with gear so you can kind of see just even by showing you that like all that crap I just accumulate things and one of the things I accumulate is responsibilities I have to routinely now go through my life and like reassess what's important and throw things away that are not important that somehow I've collected so are you know into the keynote or no no no smash I've noticed that you have also similar to me been wearing like similar clothes routinely yeah tell me about that choice and like why and you know the effect that it's having honestly it's just so easy a big part of it for me is that well when it's comfortable to just wear like black jeans and a black t-shirt I like the routine of it kind of I often think about what I'm gonna wear the night before because I like wake up at 6:30 or my alarm goes off at 6:30 and hit snooze like three times so it just makes things easier simple extremes like streamlines the whole process could you wear the same exact thing every single day yes black t-shirt jeans and these shoes I mean I switch it up I know why like this all black this is what I've been wearing the past six months yeah you haven't noticed this is hilarious this exact outfit okay I have 20 of these shirts and 15 of these pairs of pants you're kidding no I'm not kidding feet that's the thing too is no one care and when I first started working here every outfit I was like okay it needs to be like a little cute and then very quickly I realized no one cares yeah you see willpower is a finite resource the trick is to optimize your environment so it doesn't conflict with your goals and so it doesn't mess up your willpower all that being said I do have some regrets things I should have done differently this guy's to do if you are feeling overwhelmed if you do have a lot of initiatives if you have so many initiatives you start to see that it's unrealistic as you put them all the way through to the next quarter you're gonna realize that we need to cut some initiatives going forward that we are going to expect of ourselves to be a players our leaders to be a players and everybody underneath following to be a players as well thanks for putting that on don't appreciate you killed it seven Mike you're in the audience member you're great at it I was did the lighting dude oh yeah he did that you did the audio okay actually though what are my regrets what are my regrets of wearing I mean the same exact clothes for three months straight but pretty much the same clothes for six months straight like what do I regret what do I wish I did differently for starters all black so I mean like why do I regret like the color black I think it's honestly my relationship with the color black as I started to come out of that depression now this is suffocating so if you choose a color I would say go with something a little bit more neutral you know maybe jeans or anything that maybe you know is comfortable for your working environment that's appropriate when I'm talking about this being suffocating I'm actually not talking about my creativity I feel like my creativity I've been able to put that energy in that willpower into my actual creative pursuits and not things that I just felt like I wanted to do or I was trying to prove some so the question then am I going to continue to wear all black no am I going to continue to wear the exact same outfit every single day yes but your mileage may vary

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Length: 13min 26sec (806 seconds)

Published: Fri May 03 2019