The Freedom of Constraints

Here is the counterintuitive part: fewer options make you more creative, not less.

Artists have used this trick for centuries. Limit a painter to four colors and they mix shades no one with a full palette would bother to find. Tell a poet to write a sonnet and the strict form sparks ideas a blank page never would.

Your wardrobe works the same way. Fewer pieces, more combinations, more personal style than you ever managed with an overstuffed closet.