All people need to master fundamentals. Then, they can break all the rules and create "their own", be "their own" rule. There is only one direction towards genius and it is through rules.
First, we must organize, plan and proceed. Once the ground is prepared and mastered, then we may have growth and we can lend the world beauty through creative disorder - life, inspired living.
No artist ever drew a great painting without first learning how to hold the brush or draw a straight line. No carpenter ever built a beautiful home without first learning how to hit a nail straight. Mozart once first learned the time signature of notes before he ever could place his own signature onto the music.
“Latent structure rules obvious structure.” Heraclitus
Learn first things first. Go from the general to the particular. Break all into steps to master. Only after this, will you be able to create what is uniquely your own and of the “new”.
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