You need disobedience to move away from linear thinking to lateral thinking. The disobedience comes when you are not following certain stupid man-made rules. a kind of acting as a rebel and checking what is going to happen. There is a department for disobedience called Spies. They enter foreign countries and work as if they are very true and finally show disobedience to that country and obedience to their mother country. 

You are taught how to be obedient, then there is disobedience underneath it. If you show obedience then they skip you from the society. There was no law to monitor obedience but there is a law for disobedience. People who never practiced disobedience never became innovative or creative. The creative is based on disobedience, the whole root of creativity grows in the sand of disobedience.
You should break the law unofficially and make it official by finding new methods or techniques.

Disobedience attracts punishment. Disobedience breeds pain because the society is afraid of common man to practice disobedience. We are told to follow traffic rules but all the rules are broken by the ruler. One-way in Traffic Rules is for the common man but for police it is okay. Red signal to Stop for the common man. But, for politicians convoy that is okay. Disobedience is power. If you are disobeying then you move on to the next form of life like Algebra and Calculus comes when you move to a higher standard in schooling.

Disobedience breeds creativity, Disobeying is must and to be learned and experienced from the other side of the rules. Those experiences help you to move in critical situations. Breaking laws is considered to be a part of thinking. 
But it should not kill you.