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  • Welcome to another video!

  • So today I'm going to answer a question I'm asked almost on a weekly basis here on my YouTube channel and that is

  • Why do I wear a suit?

  • I'm sure a lot of you have noticed that in a lot of my videos, probably in the majority of them, I walk around wearing a suit and tie.

  • And, it's been pointed out many times to me that, especially down here in the south of China, where the summers are incredibly hot, that it's fairly impractical to always be in a suit and tie.

  • So people wonder, why is it that I wear a suit and tie?

  • Well, there are various reasons why I suggest wearing a suit and tie.

  • Especially since I more or less work for myself, I can choose what I want to wear.

  • Well, there are various reasons why I suggest wearing a suit and tie and why I'd personally wear a suit and tie.

  • But there's a story behind why I do it.

  • So, I'm going to tell you the story.

  • And once I've told you the story I'm going to go through a couple of reasons why I suggest that it's a good idea to, at least on occasion, wear a suit and tie.

  • So, the story goes as follows.

  • We'll have to go quite a few years back

  • In, probably down to about the year 2000 or so, maybe 1999 thereabouts when I was working for a big corporation called Murray and Roberts.

  • They're a construction company, and their head office in South Africa is where I worked

  • as an IT technician and I did network administrations and that sort of thing.

  • Now, back in those days, I was wearing pretty much whatever I liked.

  • And I really did like to wear ex-military surplus jackets and that sort of thing.

  • You know, and just typical jeans, jackets, t-shirt, that sort of thing, boots.

  • I used to sit there in the IT support office, and my job was to fix any problems on the servers there, and occasionally I get a phone call.

  • And I'd had have to go to a user's desk and fix a problem

  • Maybe they couldn't connect to the network, or their email wasn't working, or they couldn't print, or just whatever the case.

  • It was a job that I enjoyed and it was a job I was really good at.

  • But, people always used to treat me, well, fairly badly, to be honest.

  • I'd pitch up at their desk and I'd say, "Hi, I'm here to fix your printer problem", for instance.

  • And they'd say, "Okay, sure, just hang on, I have to finish this email", or they'd say "Sorry, I'm busy now, can you come back later".

  • I very often found myself standing around twiddling my thumbs, waiting for them to finish whatever task they wanted to finish.

  • So, anyway, this is just the way things operated, and there was a specific guy who was really kind of, fairly rude I suppose.

  • But he used to call me quite often and I'd go up there and fix his little problems here and there.

  • He would always kind of put me on hold and send me back.

  • But one day, I had to go to a wedding, I believe.

  • Either a wedding or a funeral, I can't really remember, to be honest.

  • But I had to wear a suit to work because after work I was this, probably a wedding I think.

  • So, anyway, the same guy calls me up.

  • And, he has a similar problem with his printer or something.

  • I arrived at his desk.

  • First of all, he didn't recognise me, but second of all, I got a completely different reaction out of the guy.

  • So, I pitched up at his desk and said: "Hello, I'm from the IT department and I'm here to fix your printer problem."

  • And he said: "Oh! Sure, take a seat! Uh, would you like me to bring you a coffee?".

  • I was kind of taken aback by the way that the guy was treating me.

  • But I realized it was 100% down to the way I was dressed because I had arrived at his table dressed in a suit and tie.

  • And he himself was dressed in a normal shirt.

  • In fact I was just better dressed than he was.

  • And so,

  • The way that I looked almost forced him to respect me as a human being, not just a tool of the office, if you know what I mean.

  • It was from that day forth that I decided that I would start wearing a suit.

  • And I did, I started wearing a suit to work.

  • It got me respect around the office, it got things done.

  • Now, I'm sure there are a lot of people out there currently watching this video who are about to say:

  • "Uh! That's shallow! You can't judge people by the way they look! What's inside is important", all that kind of nonsense.

  • Which, yes, is maybe true in the grander scheme of things.

  • But in reality, people are shallow, people are judgemental.

  • Whether you like it or not, you're judgemental and shallow too.

  • If you see an attractive woman walk by if you're a guy, or an attractive man if you're a woman, you're going to judge them.

  • You're going to judge them, in your head, you're either going to say: "Wow! She's really good-looking", or "She's a attractive."

  • If you're a little lower class, you might, you know, give out a catcall or a wolf whistle, some nonsense like that.

  • But either way, we do judge people on their appearance.

  • If we look at someone, we can normally judge if they are dangerous,

  • Or trustworthy

  • Poor

  • Rich

  • Successful, unsuccessful.

  • There are a lot of things we just automatically judge when we see people.

  • Now, whether those things are true or not,

  • You know, nobody can really tell what a person is like until you get to know them.

  • But, it's all about this first impression that we get of people.

  • So if you see a guy dressed in a suit and tie standing at a bank teller or something like that, you'd probably think he's fairly successful.

  • But the guy standing behind him in the sandals and the shorts with the dirty hair, and all that kind of thing, you'd probably think he's a little less successful.

  • So, my point is, the reason I started wearing suits is because of that one encounter I had with that user at that office I used to work at all those years ago.

  • But ever since then I've realized that wearing a suit is also about respect.

  • And, when I say respect, I mean not respect for me, but respect for my clients.

  • Now, it's really worked in my favour here in China, because in China, image is incredibly important, and they call it face.

  • And having face or losing face, it's a big part of the culture here.

  • Because I've always been the better-dressed candidate, I've always gotten the better jobs here,

  • and that's how I ended up in the whole medical field here, training doctors.

  • It's because out of the other candidates, I was the only person who wore a suit and tie, and everybody else was just in a t-shirt, and you know, slippers or whatever.

  • Because the expat community, here at least years ago, it's improving recently,

  • but years ago it was pretty much washed up old people and washed up people from their countries who couldn't get a job,

  • backpacking hippies, and things like that.

  • When applying for a serious job, as in training doctors, and you turn up and you don't look the part, you're not going to get the part.

  • So that's why here in China I've always found that wearing a suit, you know, it really really helps me and it plays to my advantage.

  • And of course, that probably can be said for any place in the world.

  • Anyway, getting back to the whole respect thing,

  • It shows respect to your clients and this is something I've actually explained in the past.

  • If I get called in to train this group of doctors, I can go in there, to be honest, here in China, it's so lax, if I really wanted to,

  • I could just wear a t-shirt, wear some jeans and they'd still enjoy the lesson, they would still be there enjoying my training sessions

  • And they would still that I was a good trainer, and I'd probably still get a good reputation

  • and there wouldn't be so much of a big deal

  • But the fact that I am willing to go through the discomfort of wearing a suit and tie, especially in the summer here,

  • and actually go there and present myself well to them means that I have enough respect for them

  • to actually put something good on

  • whereas if I just went with, you know, jeans and sneakers or something like that, it's just lazy on my part,

  • it means that they don't matter enough to me, that I will just wear whatever I want, to just walk in there and do my job

  • and get out of there, and like I said, it shows a lack of respect for my part.

  • So, that's the other reason why I wear a suit and tie.

  • And of course, now it's become part of my style.

  • In fact, if I'm not wearing a suit and tie, I'm pretty much wearing a leather jacket and my riding gear for the channel

  • or if I'm riding a bike or something, I very rarely wear casual clothes.

  • And well, there's a good reason for that because you can never be too overdressed

  • for any situation.

  • If you arrive at a party or you arrive at a barbeque or something

  • and you are wearing a suit and everybody else is just kind of casualed up

  • It's no big deal.

  • It's quite simple actually, take off the jacket, roll up the sleeves, throw the tie away

  • and you're smart casual, ready to roll, it's no big deal

  • Of course, you can't wear a suit if you're going to go hiking or doing some king of extreme sport or something.

  • That's absolutely absurd.

  • But just in general, wearing a suit has, for me at least, been incredibly good,

  • and it's really led to a lot of opportunity I wouldn't have had if I was just wearing a t-shirt and jeans.

  • Another example is, you're kind of always ready for any situation.

  • In fact, I've just gotten back from an interview with Guangzhou TV.

  • An international radio and TV station.

  • They came down to interview me here

  • and, no problem, I just slapped on my normal work suit and went and had an interview, and I didn't feel under-dressed

  • I didn't feel like I was misrepresenting myself or anything like that.

  • So, it's good to be able to have a suit, first of all, to put on for a special occasion.

  • But also, if you get invited to a wedding, or get invited to a special event, or you just want to go out on a really nice date

  • to like a fancy restaurant or something

  • you don't need to worry that you're going to be under-dressed.

  • So, yes, wearing a suit is a good idea for many different reasons, and that's my reason for wearing a suit is

  • to first of all, to get respect from people, strangers that don't know me and

  • second of all, to give respect that do know me.

  • Well I certainly hope that helped answer your question as to why I always wear a suit.

  • I got some pretty cool, interesting videos coming up

  • A subscriber of mine, by the name of Leroy, has let me use his DJ I-ozmo(???) for the week so

  • What I'm going to do is

  • I'm actually going to make a video about this thing

  • It's, (laughs), it's quite a cool little toy

  • And I'm going to go shoot

  • a vlog using this probably

  • tomorrow, or on the weekend

  • I'm going to show you what this thing is all about

  • It's quite an interesting thing

  • Of course, I've always got lot's of videos in the pipeline.

  • But please, if you would like me to talk about a specific topic,

  • or you would like to see something here in China,

  • please leave a comment down below and

  • a request, and I'll do it!

  • I'll see you guys very soon in the next video

  • and as always, thank you for watching

  • and...

  • STAY AWESOME!!!!!!

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為什麼要穿西裝? (Why Wear a Suit?)

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