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[English]

for the past three years i've woken up

in the morning walked two steps to my

dresser

and picked out the same exact shirt

nearly every single day

there were of course some exceptions

weddings quinceaneras nice dinners out

with my wife

but by and large i've stuck with this

simple wardrobe

day after day year after year which begs

the question

who is inviting me to their quinceanera

actually nobody uh nobody is and um

it's pretty disappointing to be honest i

thought at this point we were close

enough i thought maybe i would see that

invite come in the mail but

you know is what it is i guess the real

question that you're probably wondering

right now

is why do i wear the same shirt every

single day

and there's actually a very practical

explanation for it

and it's not because i have a terrible

sense of fashion

okay that's at least one of the reasons

why i wear the same shirt every

day this video is brought to you by

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the end of the video

my experiments in simple living began

back in 2010

one of the easiest places that i was

able to start decluttering

was my closet i went through each item

one by one

figuring out what to hold on to and what

to get rid of

as i started to work through my clothes

i noticed all the hand-me-downs all the

brand new clothes still with tags on

them all these things that

i had never even worn or never planned

to wear

again unless i got invited to the right

quinceanera

and so this was really the first time

that i started to look at my stuff and

really question

why was i holding on to it if i wasn't

getting any use out of it

at all this stuff was just sitting there

collecting dust

and so i decided to get rid of

everything that i hadn't worn in the

past

year and that ended up amounting to over

90

of my clothes when the dust settled and

i donated and sold all the things that i

could

i was left with just a few t-shirts and

a pair of jeans

and that was it these were my favorite

clothes these were the things that i

wore

all the time and going forward i

committed to only buying new clothes if

i absolutely was certain that i'd use

them

i wanted to reduce my waste but i also

wanted to reduce the amount of time

wasted shopping through catalogs

browsing stores

and swiping through options online and

apart from a few unfortunate fedoras

i kept that promise to myself then just

a few years ago

many years after my initial minimalist

decluttering

experiment i started to realize that

every time i went to my dresser to pull

out my clothes for the day

i would always go for my one favorite

shirt if it was clean

and at that moment i decided why not

just get nothing but my favorite shirts

just buy 10 of my favorite shirts and

wear that every single day

and so that's what i did for the record

i actually bought 10 charcoal

and 10 gray shirts and i know what

question you want to ask right now

because for the past three years as i've

made youtube videos

about so many different topics from

self-development to productivity and

habits

the one question that i get above

everything else is matt

where do you get your shirts and so to

save you a bunch of time the answer to

that question

is j crew that's where i get my shirts

from although

this color the charcoal color that

everybody now knows me for because i

wear it all the time on this channel

has been discontinued they don't make it

anymore i was looking

everywhere online it's just nowhere to

be found

i know i am just as disappointed as you

just when you thought 2020 couldn't get

any worse

it's gone i don't know what i'm going to

do i don't know

like my whole identity is wrapped around

a dark charcoal

snugly fit t-shirt i might wear a pink

shirt

tomorrow i don't know what what am i

gonna do

i honestly actually don't know i'm

actually kind of disappointed i'm not

even kind of

this is this is shattering news

okay back to the video

i learned a few things from radically

simplifying my wardrobe

first no adult gives a about what

you're wearing

unless you're literally wearing meat

people rarely notice that you wear the

same thing

two or three times in a row they will

notice if you smell though so definitely

get that under control

most people spend so much time thinking

about themselves that they don't have

the time to think about what you're

wearing or if you wore the same shirt a

few days in a row

now did nobody notice what i was wearing

because i work from home

probably but i do make a lot of youtube

videos here

and i found that nobody seemed to care

what i was wearing in fact because i

wore this same shirt every day people

started to expect it and then when i

wore a gray shirt or a sweater

people they actually did get upset and

who cares though

i mean that's the main point and i think

this is the point that you should really

get from this

is you can wear the same thing every day

it just requires you to not give a

now most people like i said aren't gonna

notice that you're wearing the same

thing

every day and so you're not even gonna

have to worry about it

but if somebody does say oh my god hey

did you wear that blouse yesterday

that's weird that's when you just tell

them go yourself

and you get on with your day the major

benefit i found from embracing this new

simple wardrobe

was that it freed up my mornings and

gave me one less thing to think about

each day i know there are some people

not mentioning any names

my wife that spend hours each morning

figuring out what they're going to wear

it's my wife sometimes these people

change their outfits four or five times

in one morning

and by these people i mean my wife 30 to

40 minutes

every morning this is before 2020 when

she still went into the office

she would spend trying on multiple

different outfits going in and out of

the bedroom coming out with a different

outfit on

trying to find the best one that's gonna

be the perfect fit for her presentation

that morning

and that works for her she enjoys the

theatrics of it

it doesn't seem to get her down and so

that's great for me i just don't value

wearing different and interesting

clothing every day and so keeping things

simple works for me

and one of the biggest practical

benefits that i found from found from

that

was that it freed up that 30 to 40

minutes to really get to work or to get

to my day

and to reduce the amount of decision

fatigue

decision fatigue in psychology refers to

the deteriorating quality of decision

making after

lots and lots of decisions are made back

to back the more decisions that you make

in a day

the worse decisions you will make over

time sometimes

leading to irrational trade-offs any

couple who has decided to furnish their

apartment by going to ikea knows exactly

what i'm talking about

should we buy the ecro or the eckhurpt

should we get the nordmella

or the jorsnos the soderhum or the

horlando i'm not even joking ikea should

have

a relationship counselor next to the

checkout aisle because

i don't think i've ever gone through

more stress going through that maze of a

building

picking out different throw pillows and

toilet cushions

we don't have any toilet cushions i

gotta set the record clear

that's a weird thing it's a thing that i

had growing up that i don't have anymore

we would have like the santa clause

toilet seat coverings

and it was furry ew honestly i'm

actually grossed out

thinking about it anyway the main point

is

you really want to try to reduce the

amount of decisions you make

every single day and that's where

simplicity comes in

you make one decision one time and stick

to that choice over the long run

when you do this with lots of things in

your life it has a compound effect

you decide that you're going to wake up

at 7am every day

wear the same shirt and pants eat the

same breakfast

follow the same routine if you had to

remake those decisions each day it would

begin to wear away at some of the other

really

important decisions you need to make in

your life add variety and spontaneity

where it matters to you

when you try to reinvent your routines

and daily decisions

over and over again you're doing a lot

of work for very little return

when you batch all these tiny decisions

up front you're making room and mental

clarity for the really important

decisions in life

instead of choosing which outfit goes

best with which pair of shoes you've

already had breakfast and you're out the

door

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attention on the things that really

matter

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and hobbies

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matt diabella i found so many benefits

from simplifying my wardrobe taking a

step back and really questioning

the things that i add to my closet and

add to my wardrobe

now of course this shirt is now

discontinued so

am i going to be changing things up in

the future almost certainly

i will but it feels really good now to

know

that i'm wearing something that i'm

comfortable in that i'm confident in

every morning i don't have to make these

decisions over and over again

i don't have to doubt myself and

question whether i look good in this

thing or not

i'm confident in it i'm happy in it and

that's all that matters

and that's all that should matter to you

whether you like bright crazy colors

whether you like wearing dresses covered

in meat

that doesn't matter that is up to you to

decide whether you feel comfortable

in it or not now if you're somebody who

is interested

in trying more of a simpler wardrobe

you might begin by taking a look in your

closet and asking yourself

what you haven't used over the past year

it might just be 90 it might be less the

idea is to start to ask these questions

of yourself and to figure out what you

can use

what you don't use and what you can

donate and give to somebody who might

find

even more value in it than you can

thanks so much for watching

and i'll see you next time

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
wardrobe /ˈwɔːr.drəʊb/ A2	noun - a collection of clothes owned by someone
declutter /diːˈklʌt̬.ər/ B2	verb - to remove unnecessary items from a place
minimalist /ˈmɪn.ə.mə.lɪst/ B2	adjective - using the smallest number of simple parts or elements necessary noun - a person who advocates minimalism
discontinued /ˌdɪs.kənˈtɪn.juːd/ B1	adjective - no longer produced or available
routine /ruːˈtiːn/ A2	noun - a sequence of actions regularly followed
fatigue /fəˈtiːɡ/ B1	noun - extreme tiredness
spontaneity /ˌspɒn.təˈni.ə.ti/ C1	noun - the quality of being spontaneous
theatrics /θiˈæt̬.rɪks/ C1	noun - dramatic or exaggerated behavior
compound /kəmˈpaʊnd/ B2	adjective - consisting of multiple parts or elements verb - to combine or mix
batch /bætʃ/ B1	noun - a group of things dealt with at one time verb - to group things together
passions /ˈpæʃ.ənz/ A2	noun - strong feelings of enthusiasm or excitement for something
hobbies /ˈhɒb.iːz/ A1	noun - activities done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure
questioning /ˈkwɛs.tʃən.ɪŋ/ B1	verb - to ask questions about something
simplifying /ˈsɪm.plɪ.faɪɪŋ/ B1	verb - to make something simpler or easier to understand
confident /ˈkɒn.fɪ.dənt/ A2	adjective - feeling or showing certainty about something