74. I strongly agree that rule-breakers are the most memorable people. By departing
from the status quo, iconoclasts call attention to themselves, some providing
conspicuous mirrors for society, others serving as our primary catalysts for progress.
In politics, for example, rule-breakers Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King
secured prominent places in history by challenging the status quo through civil
disobedience. Renegades such as Ghengus Khan, Stalin, and Hussein, broke all the
human-rights rules, thereby leaving indelible marks in the historical record. And
future generations will probably remember Nixon and Kennedy more clearly than
Carter or Reagan, by way of their rule-breaking activities―specifically, Nixons
Watergate debacle and Kennedys extra-marital trysts.
In the arts, mavericks such as Dali, Picasso, and Warhol, who break established
rules of composition, ultimately emerge as the greatest artists, while the names of artists
with superior technical skills are relegated to the footnotes of art-history textbooks. Our
most influential popular musicians are the flagrant rule breakers―for example, be-bop
musicians such as Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk, who broke all the harmonic
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