Emotions are Toil and Trouble
As a self-identified artist, I want to believe I’m pretty in tune with my emotional intelligence. After all, art is what people turn to to make sense of their own feelings. My favorite music, film, literature, visual art, and even live performance usually derive from the emotional depths of personal experience, even if it’s deeply implicit. But a rather poignant little secret I’ve unearthed in my artist development research is that while creativity feeds off emotions, the a