Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, experienced being trapped in conventional competition, like climbing corporate ranks in a law firm, before questioning and changing his direction.
"Peter Theo here is the co-founder of PayPal and he speaks about this a lot he himself was trapped competing with his peers to climb the corporate ranks in one of the top law firms as this is what Society had indicated was the right thing to do and eventually he got to a point where he took a step back and questioned why he was even competing on this thing"