It comes across as an obsession with image-management, rather than with skill-development or something similarly practical and useful. While there's some need

It comes across as an obsession with image-management, rather than with skill-development or something similarly practical and useful. While there's some need for taking care of one's appearance (poor personal hygiene, for example, is unpleasant for the people around you), putting this at the top of the list of things to worry about doesn't seem very healthy. It's also a characteristic of con artists of the SBF/Holmes etc. variety. Patrick Boyle's latest video, "Why We Trust Fraudsters!" explores this in some depth: https://youtu.be/Wx51CffrBIg https://youtu.be/Wx51CffrBIg