The difference right partner can bring!

I was at Balewadi Stadium in Pune on 1st Jan evening to watch Badminton matches between Hyderabad Hunters and North Eastern Warriors. There were two men's singles, one men's doubles and one ladies' singles. While there were visible differences in pace and aggression between the men's and women's singles matches, what struck me big time was the far higher level of pace and aggression of the doubles match. I developed a little theory - that assuming all players are almost equally capable, in a doubles game, the fact that you know you have a partner covering an area which you don't have to bother so much about now, and also that he/she is there as a backup if you miss a shot, adds immensely to your confidence and ability to make aggressive and risky moves, and also to do better in your area of responsibility. I have tried in my mind to extend this theory to life in general and conclude that having a partner positively impacts one's approach to life. I am sure it does in many ways but there could be many negatives also showing up if the partnership doesn't click; which is true of Badminton also, but life is way more complex than a game and there are many more factors that go to make a life-partnership really effective and synergistic. Otherwise, the negatives can make it all go out of control. Compatibility in a 1-hour game with limited and well-defined rules is much easier to find than in life in general - too many variables that matter, and many among them with random, inconsistent, unpredictable and funny values! So... it's complicated. When it works, it works.