You are not an iconoclast but you do become bored with dry, repetitive studies and you gravitate to areas that are stimulating and require fast responsiveness to changing circumstances.
Oliver was not an iconoclast, of course, himself, as you will know, and his artistic taste turned out not to conform to what we might think of as a puritan ethic.
There are indeed elements in Confucianism, which awaken abhorrence and even invoke a curse among the Chinese, and often in modern history a revolutionary was he who proved himself first an energetic iconoclast.