I was watching Peter Thiel’s talk about his book Zero to One (click here). In his talk, he mentioned about this question – Tell me something that you think is true but which almost everyone else think is not. He also raised the question that good companies operate in a monopoly eg. All happy companies are different while all unhappy companies are similar – trapped in a vicious cycle of competition. He talked about how he started off the normal way – an “A” type student who went to Stanford and studied law and then worked in a law firm and was later glad that he left the firm. He said something like “Law is something which everyone outside wants to get in, while everyone inside wants to get out”. He cautioned that we are too preoccupied with competing with the person next to us  – something we can ......