You have to make the rules, not follow them

Rules are there for a reason. You are only allowed to break them if you are a master. If
you’re not a master, don’t confuse your ignorance with creativity or style.

Play the game, but don’t believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Play the game, but play it your own way – part of the time at least. Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

You have to learn the rules of the game, and then you have to play better than anyone else. — ALBERT EINSTEIN

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules — but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

Understanding the power of the underdog requires an effort. It requires standing up to conventional wisdom.

Doing something different means you might underperform, but it also means you might change the game entirely.

Come out of the fog, young man. And remember you don't have to be a complete fool in order to succeed. Play the game, but don't believe in it — that much you owe yourself. Even if it lands you in a strait jacket or a padded cell. Play the game, but play it your own way — part of the time at least. Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate — I wish I had time to tell you only a fragment.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way.

"NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?"

The machine learned the game from scratch, with no coach. The AI followed the fixed rules, not the millennia of accepted cultural norms.

It didn’t take into account the 3000 year old traditions and conventions of the game.

It didn’t accept the narrative of how to properly play.

It wasn’t held back my limiting beliefs.