Were Peter to tell us what it really felt like to be "Mr. President," he might say something like this: "Honestly? It's definitely a different ballgame! What game is it? Well, let's see. I guess you could say that before I was president, I was playing a game of catch. Anderson would throw things at me and I'd catch them. I'd throw things back at hiim and he'd catch them. A good long game of catch. And now? Now I'd say I'm a juggler. There's not one ball, there are five, and then there are ten, and then there are fifteen! People keep tossing more in to me to add to those I'm juggling. But I'm not throwing to anyone. I'm just throwing them into the air. As soon as I get them I just toss them back into the air. And my job as the juggler is to keep them all going up there, not let any of them drop to the ground."Robert Kegan In Over Our Heads - The Mental Demands of Modern Life , (p. 147), Harvard University Press, 1994

The ability to handle stress is part of the equation that defines the great artist or designer: an art professional who does not find ways of keeping stress under control rarely stays in the field long enough to become great. Jim Krause