Ted Talks – Jill Bolte on the Brain

Jill Bolte Taylor talks about her research on the Human Brain and her personal insights as a result of a stroke she had.

Right Hemisphere is concerned with Right Here, Right Now. (Plural)
Left Hemisphere is concerned with The Past and the Future. (Individual)

Jill Bolte Taylor with Brain

When My right arm went limp I realized.. oh my gosh I’m having a stroke! then my brain says.. wow, this is so cool, this is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out !!

She’s great, very interesting…

Thanks for the recommendation Bill..

2 Comments

  1. Michele

    I read “My Stroke of Insight” in one sitting – I couldn’t put it down. I laughed. I cried. It was a fantastic book (I heard it’s a NYTimes Bestseller and I can see why!), but I also think it will be the start of a new, transformative Movement! No one wants to have a stroke as Jill Bolte Taylor did, but her experience can teach us all how to live better lives. Her TED.com speech was one of the most incredibly moving, stimulating, wonderful videos I’ve ever seen. Her Oprah Soul Series interviews were fascinating. They should make a movie of her life so everyone sees it. This is the Real Deal and gives me hope for humanity.

  2. Angeline

    Thank you for that. Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight is one of the most incredible stories I’ve heard in a long time. Her TEDTalk video blew my mind wide open to new possibilities. On the one hand, there’s what she went through and how she emerged from it. On the other hand, there’s what she can teach all of us.
    I saw the 4 part Oprah interview on Oprah dot com Soul Series and I did learn a lot from that, but I’d like to find our more of how to do what Dr. Taylor did, without having a stroke of course!
    Thin how many of us are living too much in the head, and not the heart. And of course, you can’t get more left brain than a Harvard Brain Scientist. Isn’t it ironic that she should be the one to have the stroke and transform from the quintessential left brainer into this “”seen the light”” disciple of finding inner peace?
    I hope this movement keeps going. Maybe there will be My Stroke of Insight classes where we can practice what Jill Bolte Taylor is preaching.

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