It's one of those things where you have to learn the rules before you can break them. The problem with such things is that if you present them as rules you can break when you learn them, smart people are so eager to get to the rule breaking bit that they try and skip over the rule learning as fast as possible.

The solution seems to be to confidently present them as rigidly plain rules and only let people in on the secret that they're breakable once they've demonstrated some degree of mastery. It's better to optimize for breaking the rules too late vs breaking the rules too early.

You see this all the time in beginner art classes. A big list of The Rules is presented up front and there's no brooking of dissention. Even if you break The Rules in the right way, you are punished because it's not yet time to break The Rules.