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The writer G. K. Chesterton put it as an image: two people come across a fence built across a road. The first says, 'I don't see the use of this; let's clear it away.' The second replies, 'If you don't see the use of it, I won't let you clear it away. Go and find out why it's here, and then, perhaps, I'll let you.' The fence didn't sprout on its own: someone, someday, had a reason to drive it into the ground right there. The reason may have expired — in that case, fine, out it goes — but you'll only know if you look for it first. The trap is mistaking 'I don't see the point' for 'there is no point.' That cumbersome process at work may exist because something once went wrong. Your family's odd custom may be holding up something you can't see. The clause in the contract, the 'useless' step in the recipe, the club's old rule: each one is a fence. Before deleting something that was there before you arrived, one single question: what problem did it solve when they put it in? If the answer is 'none, and I've checked,' go ahead. If it's 'no idea,' you've just found your next task.