Genius, I believe, is the ability to take a startling new look at the things most of us take for granted. Albert Einstein, for example, looked at time and space in a radical new way. Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald did so with music and voice.
Emotional genius is the gift of looking at our emotional lives in new and creative ways.
With this kind of genius, we see our emotions all of them as a powerful source of energy, wisdom, self-awareness, and direction. We learn to marshal and work with these energies, rather than categorizing or explaining them away. An emotional genius sees all emotions as valuable messages from the inner self. Emotional geniuses treat their own emotions, and the emotions of others, honorably. But both these responses can create problems.