What trait in a partner is valuable in business and in life? It's something you might call resilience, indestructibility, stability.
A person who holds onto himself despite pressure from all sides.
Such constancy offers support like an ice floe in the sea does for a polar bear. Just one more step forward — in this chaos, that's enough.
It's a bonus if your partner can also contain the chaos inside you. That will protect your business from reckless leaps, and your enemies will lose their fire when they suddenly hit a wall.
Of course, a partner's resilience has its limits. But that's not a concern when your partnership is strong.
How can you tell? It's when your vulnerabilities and your partner's don't overlap.
If in grappling you grab an athlete’s forearm with one hand, he’ll easily break free by twisting toward his thumb. But clasp his arm with both hands forming a circle, and it's ten times harder for him to escape. This is the “Two on One” principle.
By compensating for each other's weaknesses, you multiply your combined strength.
Ideally, you should also have different personality types, life experiences and superpowers. A synthesis of symbolic opposites will both endure and crush anything in its path.
But there's a catch. It’s hard for those partners to endure each other. To acknowledge your own gaps and appreciate the other's weirdness, you both have to be mature individuals.
That's why successful business and life partnerships are rare.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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As a business therapist, I help tech founders quickly solve dilemmas at the intersection of business and personality, and boost company value as a result.
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