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When long-term collaborators become too intellectually comfortable

My research partner and I have been collaborating for five years and we've developed such an efficient working relationship that we rarely question each other's assumptions anymore. Our work is solid but predictable, and I'm starting to worry that our intellectual comfort zone is limiting what we could discover together.

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You and your partner know each other too well to challenge each other, and the work has gone stale.

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