A surprising amount of what we do every day isn’t actually required—we just do it because that’s what everyone else seems to do. From answering the door and tolerating other people’s nonsense to finishing a terrible book simply because you started it, sometimes watching someone ignore an unwritten rule is all it takes to realize you can too. Here are 32 things people discovered were completely optional.

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