12. Triage vs. Avoidance: The Creator's Dilemma

If you've ever kept moving through a hard season and had someone mistake your momentum for avoidance — this episode is for you.Triage is active. Avoidance is passive. The problem is that in a heavily therapized culture, any forward motion without visible processing gets read as denial. But movement can be the processing. Clarity doesn't always precede action — sometimes it follows it.In this episode of Current Mind, Nneka draws on research from psychologists Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman, Yale's Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, and organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich to make the case that knowing which coping style you're in — and knowing your why internally — is what separates founders and creative practitioners who build through hard seasons from those who stall inside them.This one is for the managers, the creators, the practitioners who are doing the work to stay in — and watching it look like chaos from the outside. You know what you're doing. Keep moving.STUDIES & ARTICLESLazarus & Folkman — Stress, Appraisal, and Coping (1984) The foundational coping research. No free full text available — it's a book. Best to cite it verbally and link to the publisher page: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780826141910Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco & Lyubomirsky — "Rethinking Rumination" (2008) Full paper available free as a PDF direct from co-author Sonja Lyubomirsky's site: https://drsonja.net/wp-content/themes/drsonja/papers/NWL2008.pdfTasha Eurich — "What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)" Harvard Business Review, January 2018. Free to read: https://hbr.org/2018/01/what-self-awareness-really-is-and-how-to-cultivate-itBOOKSTasha Eurich — Insight (2017) Official book site: https://www.insight-book.comMarcus Aurelius — Meditations Gregory Hays translation (the most readable modern version): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/110437/meditations-by-marcus-aurelius/Ichiro Kishmi and Fumitake Koga— The Courage to Be Disliked (2013) https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Be-Disliked-Phenomenon-Happiness/dp/1501197274Ryan Holiday — The Obstacle Is the Way (2014) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/314003/the-obstacle-is-the-way-expanded-10th-anniversary-edition-by-ryan-holiday/___Website:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://urucollective.co⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nneka's Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/nnekasmind/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Úrù Collective IG:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/urucollective.co⁠