Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: ...that we have the power to choose who and how we want to be in every situation

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor back to our show. Dr. Taylor has given one of the most popular TED talks of all time entitled, My Stroke of Insight, which has had more than 27 and a half million views. She is a Harvard-trained brain scientist who studied her own stroke, as it happened, back in 1996. She knew what was happening as she watched her brain functions—motion, speech, memory and self-awareness—shut down, one by one.

Dr. Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk, and talk. She has become an advocate for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. She’s the author of the best-selling memoir, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey. And, she’s the author of the new book, Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. We are so thrilled to welcome Dr. Jill Boltey Taylor back to our show.
0:22.4	Dr. Taylor has given one of the most popular TED Talks of All Time titled My Stroke of Insight, which has had more than 27 and
0:28.9	a half million views. She's a Harvard trained brain scientists who studied her own stroke
0:34.5	as it happened back in 1996. She knew what was happening as she watched her brain
0:40.1	functions, motion, speech, memory, and self-awareness shut down one by one. Now, Dr. Taylor spent
0:46.7	eight years recovering her ability to think, walk, and talk. And she's become an advocate for stroke
0:52.7	recovery and for the possibility of coming back
0:55.2	from brain injury stronger than before. She's the author of the bestselling memoir,
0:59.8	My Stroke of Insight, A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey. And she's also the author of the new book,
1:06.0	Whole Brain Living, the anatomy of choice and the four characters that drive our life.
1:11.6	Dr. Taylor, thank you so very much for joining us once again.
1:15.2	That's great to be with you. Thank you for having me.
1:17.8	The title of your new book, as I mentioned, is Whole Brain Living. What is that?
1:24.3	You know, we've been functioning on the assumption with this myth that we are only using 10% of our brain.
1:31.3	And that just drives me nuts when I hear it because the brain is this magnificent collection of cells.
1:39.3	And if it's alive and it's in your head, then you're using it.
1:43.3	So the whole brain living is really about getting to know the different parts And if it's alive and it's in your head, then you're using it.
1:44.2	So the whole brain living is really about getting to know the different parts of your brain
1:49.5	so that you have the power to choose who and how you want to be moment by moment based on what
1:55.0	you now understand about the different character profiles that we each exhibit. Talk to us about how your own
2:02.5	experience changed how you think about all of this because it's such a controversial opinion.
2:09.8	When you think about the anatomy of the brain, the anatomy of the brain has two emotional
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