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When creative partnerships lose their productive tension

My filmmaking partner and I have been collaborating for five years and we used to argue passionately about every creative choice and now we just defer to whoever feels more strongly and our work is getting safer and I miss the creative tension but don't know how to get it back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The avoidance of conflict has drained the very friction that once generated their best ideas.

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