Tuesday Tales: Breaking the Rules

Here’s today’s mentoring moment. I hope you find it useful.

Your moment might be a line that you cross. A rule that you break.

This week, I had a wonderful experience at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra listening to a tribute to the legendary Miles Davis.

Pretty early on, and repeatedly, I heard it.

Not just a note or a solo, but a decision.

I was hearing unfamiliar, wonderful sounds from instruments I thought I knew well from years of listening to music.

A trumpet that didn’t behave like other trumpets.
A guitar that sounded like something else entirely.

Rhythms that refused to resolve the way they were supposed to.
Moments that felt like they were stepping right up to the edge of breaking down… and then didn’t.

That’s when it clicked: This was about breaking the rules that define what “right” even is.

As interpreted by the amazing Gonzalo Rubalcaba and then by the incredible Unlimited Myles ensemble, I could hear that Miles Davis didn’t just push boundaries.

He made a choice to ignore them. Over and over again.

Because breaking the rules may not feel heroic in the moment. It might feel wrong.

There’s no guarantee it will work.

No assurance the audience will follow.

Just a decision to either play it the way it’s always been played or risk creating something entirely new.

That’s the origin moment.

More on Friday.

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