Someone once said, to become great at anything, you first must learn all the rules that define the craft and then start looking at those rules and seek out the ones you can break.
I believe that unleashing your creativity means challenging existing ideas and conventions. it requires deviating from the well worn path. Yes, it will eventually involve annoying some people – the incumbents that are thriving based on the current system.
Breaking rules always sounds like a bad thing. Even illegal. Yet, we do conveniently seem to forget that every rule that is in existence to day was once outlawed or abiding in a gray area. Every expert in any field became an expert by learning rules that somebody created one day.
I do not go about telling people that I break hard rules everyday for a living, but I have that consciousness within…. To unleash my creativity upon the world, I have to break some rules.
In your profession, how many rules can you break and get away with it?
This is the origins of disruption.
