Good ideas come from many places. Perfecting those into great works require a special kind of collaboration.  It’s a permission granted to your audit partner that none else share in that category.   

Creating systems, software, forming ideas or planning requires certain things.  Random and selective input, critique/advice, experimenting, and mores  Even if you were quite talented in the area, having a partner with whom ideas must qualify is key.  The goal is to find a certain level of harmony. It’s not time to embrace an extreme opposition, or please everyone.  Do they like the simple route, or ...