My research partner and I have been working on this paper for months and we keep getting caught in loops where we're both trying to preserve each other's ideas instead of following the argument to its strongest form, and the work is suffering from our politeness.
More people experience this than they realize.
Intellectual partnership requires a delicate balance between respect and rigorous disagreement.
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