Examples of Emotional Intelligence from Popular Songs

It's hard to find a song that isn't about 'the war of the brains'. Because we have three brains that are often in conflict with one another (reptilian, limbic and neocortex), we suffer conflict, guilt and shame. And because our brains are the way they are, we are the way we are, -- we endure love, grief, excitement, inconvenient passions, attempts at rational control, impotent anger and the need to push to the head of the line. And we do dumb things like fool around with Jose's faithless girl. (Don't go there!) EQ is about experiencing and managing those emotions -- yours and theirs -- and it's in all our songs. It used to be the Western tradition to have a poet laureate