During his first public Q&A session at Facebook HQ, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked why he wears the same gray T-shirt every day. His answer? To limit the number of decisions he makes each day, saving himself – so to speak – for the important stuff.
“There’s actually a bunch of psychology theories,” he says, “that claim even making small decisions – what you wear or what you eat for breakfast, or things like that – kind of make you tired and consume your energy. I’m in this really lucky position where I get to wake up every day and help serve more than 1 billion people, and I feel like I’m not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things [like deciding what to wear],” Zuckerberg said. “Even though it kind of sounds silly that that’s my reason for wearing a gray t-shirt every day, it also is true.”
I get it. It seems vaguely Asperger-y to me, but I get it. I’ve rationalized to myself that having no hair is one less element to factor in to dressing each day. Whether that makes me a better dresser, or better writer, or better person, is up for debate. I’m not sure that if you take away the one, you compensate the other (like blind people and their other heightened senses). Also – and this is just a snap theory that I really haven’t thought through – but people who wear uniforms are usually assholes, and not the kind of people I would ever want to hang out with. Mao Tse Tung, (author) Tom Wolfe, Slash, and Simon Cowell all come to mind. So…. not for me, thanx. (via The Laughing Squid)
