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Scenario

When intellectual partnerships reveal conflicting values

My research partner and I have discovered we have fundamentally different approaches to intellectual honesty – I want to follow ideas wherever they lead even if they're uncomfortable, while they seem to want to stay within safer ideological boundaries. Our work is suffering because we can't have the hard conversations our project requires.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two collaborators have discovered that their different relationships to intellectual risk are incompatible with their shared goals.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined intellectual life?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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