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Scenario

When academic collaborators struggle to challenge each other

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.

What we've seen

Intellectual partnership requires a delicate balance between respect and rigorous disagreement.

Your guide for this
Mura
Mura works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Peri

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