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When perfectionist creative partners have incompatible approaches to refinement

My collaborator and I are making this film and we're both perfectionists but in completely opposite ways - she needs to keep experimenting until the last possible moment and I need to lock things down early so I can refine them - and we're driving each other crazy because we each think the other is compromising the quality.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two different forms of creative rigor are creating conflict instead of enhancing the work, with each partner experiencing the other's standards as destructive.

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