I'm tired of "I had a hunch"....

"I had a hunch". "I had a feeling". "It jsut came to me".
Bah.
We (you and me reading this) are a huge mass of sensors connected to a massive processing device with huge, near photographic storage and a particular expertise in pattern matching.
OF COURSE we're subconciously recieveing and processing information and some of it become relevant. "I had a feeling something was wrong with my car, I took it into the shop and wow, it was almost busted!"
No, you careless thinker. Your butt, hands, and feet have been recording vibrations from that car for the last two years, and the pattern of recordings changed and that became that "feeling". No, it;s just your brain doing it's normal, expected, job, please stop treating "hunches" and "feelings" like they're some psycic mystery.

Don't be a rule-breaker!

Without a very good reason.

Pop culture is full of the "think outside the box", "be a rule-breaker!" chants.
That's as absurd as being a slavish rule-follower.

Rules, and "the box" that folks think in often come from very important reasons, and tossing them away without good reason is ignoring 5,000 years of experience.

Flying regulations are a great template to use in "rule-breaking". Pilot's have to learn hundreds of rules and regulations to be allowed to fly. Pilots often refer to each FAA flying rule as being "written in blood", the rules for flying have evolved through people dying, and a rule being written to insure someone else doesn't die from the same thing. Those rules are "good", pilots would be foolish to be "rule-breakers" since that would probably just kill them quickly.

But the other thing pilots read in FAA regs is rule 91.3 is this one "the pilot in command may deviate from any rule of this part to the extent required to meet that emergency", in other words, if you have a compelling reason then hell yes, violate any rule you want!

Use that as your template. And instead of hollering "Be a rule-breaker!", use your own mind to determine whether a rule is valid or not.