Why Successful People Wear The Same Thing Every Day

Vincent Carlos
The Startup
Published in
5 min readOct 31, 2019

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Every single day, you make thousands of decisions:

Should I hit the snooze button or not? What time should I leave for work? Should I exercise today? And if so, what time?

The list goes on and on.

Some of these decisions are important, but most are trivial.

Either way, it’s exhausting.

By the time it’s noon, it feels like you just don’t have any mental energy left to make well thought out decisions.

As a result, you end up making a lot more bad decisions.

You decide to drink a soda instead of water or you decide to check social media instead of getting some work done.

Fortunately, it doesn’t need to be like this.

Why Too Many Decisions Is A Bad Thing

Researchers have actually studied the effect that making too many decisions can have on our lives. And what studies consistently show is that our capacity to consistently make well thought out decisions is finite.

What this means is that when you use your brainpower earlier in the day deciding what to eat for breakfast, for example, you’ll consequently have less of it later in the day when you have to decide if you should have that…

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Vincent Carlos
The Startup

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