Not sure if I'd call this my rule, but actively going out of my own way to let encounters play out as they're intended through dialogue/cutscenes is what I actively do.
For example with the Blighted Village gobo ambush; in any other game I'd just sneak around and stab them in the back completely unnoticed. But in BG3 I intentionally walk into encounters fully knowing I'll be at a disadvantage, because I really love dialogue/cutscenes in the game so skipping them feels like heresy to me
Same with the gobos under the Grove; I could just push the gobo from above down into the group and save myself some trouble, but instead I intentionally walk into them to trigger the cutscene. So for me it's always content first and worry about danger later.
Oh and I don't shove, at all. Shoving means losing loot, which is even worse
