By Alison Green — 2021
Help! My assistant is pushy and hard to work with.
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CLEAR ALL
“I believe that collaboration is the solution and may bring us the harmony which would liberate art from its boundless confusion” - Jean Arp
Collaboration works best when it’s unexpected. Merriam-Webster defines collaboration as “to work jointly with others or together, especially in an intellectual endeavor.” That’s where we go wrong: Some of our collaborative efforts fail to stimulate us.
I cannot think of an innovation that—without collaboration—had a major impact on the world.
A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
Humans have incredible creative potential. Our knack for creating megacities, double-decker airplanes, cures for hundreds of diseases, symphonies, and virtual reality games, among other remarkable inventions, attests to our capacity to imagine possibilities and make them real.
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