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. So, the only two things we know to do with our emotions make them unmanageable and unwelcome. Emotional genius places a new skill into the mix. We learn to ask them questions, to understand the necessity of their presence in our lives, and to use their presence to foster growth and understanding. This has been a life-long process.