19th November, 2021

Working with people who have different expertise, experiences, stories, and visions to your own can be tense. It can be stressful! This can especially be the case when an ambitious project not only benefits from collaboration but flat out relies on it.

As I work - for the first time - towards bigger, more ambitious, more multidimensional projects that I’ve ever been able to facilitate before, collaboration is helping me see that I don’t have all the answers.

The narcissistic, megalomaniacal, controlling parts of me want to resist the notion that I can’t do this all myself. But the beautiful tension of collaboration is tempering my ego and making me a better scientist.

Where might collaboration expand your thinking?

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