Churchill's exceptional openness to intense emotion may help explain how he was able to sense danger that more conventional minds failed to perceive.

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Further, those who had intense emotion AND were better able to recognize their current feelings did even better, because their emotional insight helped control potential bias produced by those feelings.

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And the more intense the emotion, the more powerful the thought bubble and the stronger your belief in its validity.

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Every emotion becomes so intense in times of war.

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However, the expression of emotion is different from the experience of it, and the best leaders are those who channel their intense feelings toward productive outcomes.

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