Tech wait here welcome back now you may
have noticed I am always wearing North
Face gear in many of my videos and you
may be wondering why so I thought it
would make a video to explain and you
may find that this advice will help you
in your personal and professional life
as well maybe you can get you a date
maybe it can get you a promotion because
unlike most people I've really give them
fashion a lot of thought I thought the
bother holistically now the fact of the
matter is is not really North Face that
I'm trying to wear here and in fact they
are not a sponsor if you take a look at
what I'm wearing on the inside this is
the Patagonia jacket so I thought it
would give you a rundown about what type
of clothes will make you personally and
professionally successful like me as a
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years ago I used to be just like you I
would be wearing these designer graphic
tee shirts shredded jeans and I had this
philosophy that if I was gonna wear any
clothes then it needed to be exciting
and visible like I didn't want to wear
anything boring and what happened was I
would go to these clubs and people would
just I think they probably thought I was
a player and they ignored me people felt
uncomfortable talking to me I gave off
this sort of strange player vibe and
when I went to the store like Armani
Exchange and I would buy myself these
hundred dollar t-shirts $150 pairs of
jeans I realized I looked around the
store and everybody there looked like
pretentious pricks
and I did not want to associate myself
with any of those people in the store
and so that's when I came to this
conclusion that when you wear expensive
flashing clothing shirt is going to make
you look cool but it's also going to
make you look self-centered and very
arrogant and just really all about
yourself like like look at this guy he
just went out and spent hundreds of
dollars purely on his own self-image
just to make himself look better than
everybody else like with a self-centered
and greedy arrogant bastard not to
mention I felt that this made me very
unapproachable and it was a waste of
money as well so I backpedaled on this
whole strategy about wearing flashy
clothing and I started going towards
like gap so gap clothing it's a very
clean traditional and classy look
you're not intimidating at all it looks
like you're a friendly
that people can talk to if you go to a
club in Gap clothes you'd probably be
approached by all sorts of people but at
the same time you may be a little bit
boring and for me when I worked at
clothes it just wasn't me it felt way
too boring not to mention the quality
was not very good usually after one or
two washes the clothing would be
complete trash and so that left me for a
few years very confused about what type
of clothes I should be wearing and
buying now the other fascinating aspect
about this is that fashion I believe is
something that is defined by culture and
by the people around you so if you think
about it why do business suits look good
because successful rich people happen to
be wearing businesses and that's what
they wear when they go to important
meetings you associate the business suit
with success similarly if you take a
look at jackets
well jackets look cool because
motorcyclists happen to wear jackets as
armor padding and because of that
association black leather jackets make
someone seem more masculine cool a
little bit sporty and so whatever your
perception of what looks good is
something that another person has
defined usually that is the influencer
so that puts me in the interesting
position because as an influencer myself
anything I wear is by default going to
look good it's going to be considered
fashionable right if you take a look at
the top ten celebrities that you admire
and if they're all wearing pajamas then
you're probably going to think pajamas
are going to look pretty cool as well so
whenever people tell me what to wear
like I should wear white shirt and
khakis because that's going to make me
more fashionable well that's really
cyclical logic because by definition
anything I wear as an influencer is
going to be considered fashionable I
define the next wave of what is going to
be considered fashionable and the only
way to make something even more
fashionable is by increasing my level of
success when I wear certain clothing so
whereas most people are out there
imitating copying and consuming trying
to pretend that they're something that
they're not or associating themselves
with some other form of success and this
sort of mimicry is what they considered
to be fashionable because associates
them with that higher level for the
influencer they need to create that
success on their own if you take a look
at my clothing for example I'm usually
either wearing my own merchandise which
you can check out in the description
below I'm on vacation now so I don't
have that
and or I could be wearing this Patagonia
jacket this one I actually received as
part of a award for a team project that
succeeded very well you couldn't buy
something like this so this one has some
custom team logos on the sides and no
amount of spending money could have
bought me this jacket I had to actually
earn it and in terms of culture it's
fascinating to me that what may be
considered fashionable in Silicon Valley
could be considered complete trash
fashion in say Europe and vice versa if
you wear a suit in Silicon Valley you
may just appear to be pretentious now
when that began traveling a lot as a
digital Nomad it became apparent to me
that I couldn't be going around with 3
pairs of shoes 5 pairs of pants 20 pairs
of shirts and matching socks for all of
these outfits it just wouldn't fit
inside all of my suitcase not to mention
I could be in the variety of
environments from code mountains to hot
deserts and there would be so much wear
and tear on these clothing materials
without very good laundry machines or
hand wash areas that if I were to go
around would say like a cashmere scarf
it would probably be ruined so fast
that's when I began to realize that for
the modern person who may be traveling a
lot like I say a digital nomad there's a
certain uniform and this is just like
how astronauts may wear spacesuits for
people who are on the road all the time
there's a certain uniform for that and
that is the sort of all terrain type of
clothing that looks okay looks quite
good but it's also very functional and
has high-quality materials and we think
about it I think of myself as somebody
from the future I'm living the sort of
lifestyle where at this point right now
at least I'm able to just travel around
go wherever I please and I'm not really
locked down in any one single house and
this is probably the way most people
will be living 50 years into the future
from now so when you think about it what
does fashion look like 50 years from now
what about clothing will people wear do
you think people will still be wearing
khakis and jeans probably not fashion
changes very quickly but then people may
be wearing cyber kinetic suits with jet
thrusters in the back but as a part of
that uniform you may have something
similar to say outdoor gear which is our
train weather proof waterproof
breathable materials antibacterial look
good in any environment from office to
clubbing to hiking and you might
consider that by then we would
perfected the most perfect piece of
clothing a unification of form and
function and there any piece of clothing
that we have today like khakis and
trousers and shirts that without be
considered terribly old updated
non-functional not even looking good and
you would never date anyone who would
wear clothing from this era it would
just be so mm and so with these factors
at play I began looking at more
functional types of clothing and that
brought me to brands like North Face
architects Patagonia Columbia and even
some of the other technical clothing you
may find that Uniqlo or any other brand
but to me I kind of realized that the
sort of outdoor clothing just makes you
have a very pleasant vibe like you're an
outdoor active hiking type of person and
that's a great image to have far better
than somebody who seems very
self-centered into clubbing all the time
like a player type of vibe or far better
than the type of person who's wearing
gap clothes he just looks very sterile
and neutered or Banana Republic clothing
which kind of makes you look like a
corporate slave and people don't really
wear that type of clothes and the other
day except for the work week Monday
through Friday and then attempt to try
to impress their bosses so here's what I
did one day I decided to just trash all
of my gab clothes my arm on the exchange
clothes my guest jeans my Banana
Republic shirts and just replace it all
with North Face clothing um Patagonia
clothing is fine too but I just thought
the colors were kind of ugly Columbia it
just seemed a little bit too cheap I you
know this isn't about trying to save
money I'm still out here ready to shell
out big bucks for fashionable clothing
in fact a lot of this outdoor clothing
is quite expensive so I saved my money
up over a few weeks and got a lot of
this stuff and then went to the club and
I realized all the girls started talking
to me and approaching me and I managed
to start getting dates and it just gave
off this really nice Pleasant vibe about
me right and they were reflected better
about who I was like I am into nature
and just being outside and doing things
and I felt that I was just more
approachable people were less
intimidated when I went into in the
office environment as well it just made
me look like a sociable type of person
who everybody wanted to be friends with
I wasn't wearing like Banana Republic
clothing like I'm trying to compete with
you to see who can get the promotion I
wasn't wearing super boring gab clothes
or a clubbing clothes which would be
inappropriate in the work environment
so that kind of brought me to my current
wardrobe set and I just wear the same
clothes pretty much every day the sort
of breathable soft shell type of
material is good for indoors or outdoors
it gets you the sort of self-regulating
temperature oftentimes I'll just wear a
t-shirt with a jacket on top and yet
this has done wonders for me as well as
just boost my overall confidence because
I'm able to really act like Who I am I'm
not trying to pretend to be a fashion
model or trying to be somebody that I'm
not when you consider first principles
why is something fashionable well
usually it's because whoever first wore
that outfit was quite successful and
inspired people so when you're outfitted
to perform your best and you're not
trying to be somebody else you're not
trying to fit in somebody else's shoes
but you are unapologetically yourself
being yourself doing your thing I think
that's going to just be the best version
of yourself that you can present to the
world so they'll do for me but let me
know what your clothing philosophy is
and if you have any suggestions for me
because I'm always looking to improve
how can I make myself even more stylish
as difficult as that may be please give
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the algorithm I hope you enjoyed the
episode and I'll see you next time
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