Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (Part 2) - Our First Job as Humans is to Love Each Other. Period.

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🗓️ 29 May 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This is Part 2 of my talk with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. I warn you that tears are shed in this episode and it's as heartfelt as you'd expect from an amazing woman like Jill.Jill is a Harvard-trained and published neuroscientist. In 1996 she experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight, documenting her experience with stroke and eight-year recovery, spent...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps
0:16.3	some nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.3	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.7	Welcome to slow more. Thank you for joining us again. I had no doubt whatsoever that you would come back as I mentioned on the first part Dr. Gilbaldi Taylor is my absolute number one
0:45.7	hero the one person that touched my life most in the last seven years of my life
0:50.8	through her TED Talk and her book that was titled My Stroke of Insight.
0:56.0	I had a stroke of Insight into my right brain, into the ability to live in flow to live in harmony to live in love
1:06.5	Which is an amazing experience that she experienced when she had a stroke that affected her left hemisphere,
1:14.6	disabled her left hemisphere of her brain,
1:17.2	and so she could completely live in the present moment
1:20.8	in inclusion in harmony with the entire world and she described it so beautifully
1:26.5	in her 2008 TED Talk and her book My Stroke of Insight.
1:31.8	Dr. Gilbaldi Taylor is a Harvard trained and published
1:35.4	neuroscientist. She was named the one of the Time magazine top 100 most
1:42.2	influential people in the world and she was the
1:44.9	premier guest on Opera Winfrey's soul series webcast. Jill has published a new book
1:52.2	back on May 11th.
1:53.7	Definitely I recommended read. I intend to read it myself
1:57.1	whole brain living, the anatomy of choice and the four characters that drive our life.
2:03.0	We've discussed in part one a lot about character one,
2:07.0	the thinker and character two, which now I call the panicker.
2:11.0	She calls them Helen and Abby. We will now continue our conversation to dive into the
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