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I'll start with an admission:
FI and I.. well, it depends. If we're starting a new project together we make a fantastic team - I have a crazy idea, FI dreams up an outline to make it happen and prods me into action, and I then obsess over the minutiae.
We're both incredibly competitive though (well, me more so) and if one of us is supposed to have the "superior" skill/knowledge/talent in some specific study/practice/whatever - well, the other had better not try to encroach - or if they do, they'd better acknowledge deference
...which most people seem to find really strange. It's not at all that we don't want each other to succeed, it's that we both need to be 'best' at something. Thank goodness we didn't choose the same field of work, which almost did happen!
I'll start with an admission:
FI and I.. well, it depends. If we're starting a new project together we make a fantastic team - I have a crazy idea, FI dreams up an outline to make it happen and prods me into action, and I then obsess over the minutiae.
We're both incredibly competitive though (well, me more so) and if one of us is supposed to have the "superior" skill/knowledge/talent in some specific study/practice/whatever - well, the other had better not try to encroach - or if they do, they'd better acknowledge deference
...which most people seem to find really strange. It's not at all that we don't want each other to succeed, it's that we both need to be 'best' at something. Thank goodness we didn't choose the same field of work, which almost did happen!