When Huang Renxun was asked why he wears a black leather jacket every day, his answer was simple: it lets me put my focus on the most important things.
What’s interesting about the answer is that it treats “what to wear” as a cost. Human attention and decision budgets are both limited. Every day, decisions start from breakfast—what to eat, what to wear today—and these small matters quietly drain it. By the time you really need to make a judgment, your mind is already dulled.
Rather than saying this is a leather jacket, it’s more like a power-saving mode. Jobs wore the same black turtleneck year after year, Zuckerberg kept to one uniform gray T-shirt—logic is pretty much the same: turn repeatable decisions into default options, and save limited energy for truly hard problems.
The same logic applies to putting it into the market and investing as well. Every day you watch the intraday charts, chase after whatever is hot, and get tugged back and forth by countless pieces of news. It looks diligent, but most of your energy is spent on noise. What truly determines long-term outcomes is often just a handful of key decisions. Set a set of rules for yourself, reduce impulsive moves, and it will be more effective than refreshing a few more market pages.$MUBARAK
