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When conflict avoidance kills creative collaboration

My friend and I are co-directing a short film and we have opposite instincts about everything from casting to color palette, but we're so afraid of conflict that we keep compromising until every decision feels watered down. We're making a movie that neither of us actually likes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your shared fear of creative disagreement is producing work that satisfies neither vision, making you collaborators in your own artistic disappointment.

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