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How to balance different creative processes in collaborative work

My co-director and I are developing a theater piece together and we have this pattern where I get excited and want to explore every possibility while she needs to narrow things down and make concrete decisions, and lately it feels like we're working against each other instead of complementing each other. Every rehearsal becomes a tension between expansion and focus, and neither of us knows how to bridge our different creative rhythms.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision of divergent creative temperaments can either generate productive tension or destructive friction, depending on how consciously the differences are held.

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