I don't actually disagree with you at all. What I would say is this: 85% of the time, things are done in a certain way for a reason; people have discovered th

I don't actually disagree with you at all. What I would say is this: 85% of the time, things are done in a certain way for a reason; people have discovered through experience that a particular method is best. As someone "new" to a situation (regardless of age), deference to the established norms is a requirement for success, namely because you are too ignorant to identify that 15%. I don't care how brilliant you are (or think you are) wisdom often only comes with experience, and experience takes time. Getting back to sweeping generalizations - this is something I think Millennials are particularly poor with. While for most other generations, the ability to think outside of the box is rare and prized, Millennials seem to forget that someone a lot smarter than them established the box in the first place, likely for a very good reason. We establish things like decorum - as mundane and limiting as it may seem to you - because experience has shown that a lack of expected decorum can result in conveying a poor impression where such a conveyance is not intended.