Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: Understanding Our Minds, The Effects Of Psychedelics On The Brain And Discovering Your Personality Type | EP 421

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered where all your thoughts and memories are stored in your brain?

In this episode of The Align Podcast, we talk all about the anatomy of the brain, our minds and how they affect our relationships with others and the world around us. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor also shares her experience with suffering a stroke and how she managed to regain control of her brain. We speak about the dangers of psychedelics, what we can learn from a schizophrenic brain and how the four different character types of the brain ultimately affect our personalities.

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroscientist. In 1996 she experienced a severe haemorrhage 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 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and is still routinely the #1 book in the category Stroke in the Amazon marketplace.

Dr. Jill is a dynamic teacher and public speaker who loves educating all age groups, academic levels, as well as corporations and not-for-profit organizations about the beauty of our human brain. She focuses on how we can activate the power of our neuroplasticity to not only recover from neurological trauma, but how we can purposely choose to live a more vibrant, resilient, and satisfying life.

In 2008 Dr. Jill gave the first TED talk that ever went viral on the Internet, which now has well over 28.5 million views. Also in 2008, Dr. Jill was chosen as one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” and was the premiere guest on Oprah Winfrey’s “Soul Series” webcast. Her new book, Whole Brain Living – the Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life is a #1 release on Amazon in categories ranging from Neuroscience to Nervous System Diseases and Stroke.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Aline Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together
0:07.1	the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind,
0:12.1	body, and movement.
0:13.5	Today's conversation is with my new friend, Dr. Jill Bulte Taylor.
0:17.9	We get into the brain, the mind, personality structures, how it can come into greater relationship with
0:25.5	hours to come into a great relationship with our relationships. We also touch on
0:30.4	split brain theory developed by Nobel Prize winner, Roger Sperry back a while ago,
0:37.1	and these different character types that we all have existing within us.
0:43.2	Get into Dr. Jill Balti Taylor,
0:45.4	a guest of today, her most recent book, Whole Brain Living.
0:49.2	She describes four distinct character types
0:51.8	that is specifically extracted from the anatomy of our brain and
0:57.9	how that correlates to our personality, to our thought structures, oury structure and things of the sort.
1:03.4	This truly is one of my favorite conversations that I've had on this podcast out of
1:07.5	400 and I don't know how many. I just really it was a real pleasure getting to discuss these matters with Dr Jill because she her story is
1:18.1	Unbelievable I'll let her tell it in here if you're not familiar with her already she has the I think she has the first
1:25.3	viral quote quote-quote viral Ted Talk has like 26 odd million views or something of the sort.
1:33.6	Her first book is called My Stroke of Insight.
1:36.5	It was a New York Times bestseller.
1:39.0	Oprah is a big fan.
1:40.1	She's featured her a bunch of times.
1:42.0	And she's just right. She is a Harvard professor or was a Harvard professor.
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