My research partner and I have been co-authoring papers for two years and we're both ambitious academics, but lately every conversation about our next project becomes an unspoken negotiation about whose career benefits more, and I hate that we're starting to think of our collaboration as transactional.
More people experience this than they realize.
Professional ambition can transform intellectual partnership into zero-sum calculation.
“Where Are You with The inner critic?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.