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When study groups avoid necessary difficult conversations

My study group started strong but now three months into preparing for boards, we're all stressed and some people aren't pulling their weight, but we're all too afraid of conflict to address it directly and the whole thing is falling apart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fear of disrupting group harmony can prevent the very conversations needed to preserve the group's function.

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