A little girl was watching her mother prepare a fish for dinner. Her mother cut the head and tail off the fish and then placed it into a baking pan. The little girl asked her mother why she cut the head and tail off the fish. Her mother thought for a while and then said, "I've always done it that way - that's how grandma did it."
Not satisfied with the answer, the little girl went to visit her grandma to find out why she cut the head and tail off the fish before baking it.
Grandma thought for a while and replied, "I don't know. My mother always did it that way."
Great grandma thought for a while and said, “Because my baking pan was too small to fit in the whole fish”.
(Ack M Hamanova)
Moral:
It is good to challenge some belief systems and assumptions.
It is good to question some activities that have become routine. Even in business and everyday living, why do you always fill that form? Why do you have to do that first? What is the reason behind that taboo?
When you understand the reason and logic behind an activity you can then improve on ways of tackling such.
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