Talking about investment firms, big law, consulting, etc the other day and a friend made the point that they’re designed to make you believe there’s no way to succeed outside that framework. If you take a step back and you see there are unlimited paths to success and happiness
"I had no idea it was possible to escape from Alcatraz." Of course that was not literally true, since all you had to do was go out the front door and not come back. But psychologically this was not what people were capable of, because when their identity was defined by competing.