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Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

Stroke of Insight with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (ep. 432)

Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

John O'Leary

Self-improvement, Bestsellingauthor, Education, Dailyinspiration, Society & Culture, Liveinspired, Johnoleary, Inspiration, Joebuck, Inspiredliving, Onfire, Relationships

4.9 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist and author of the New York Times bestselling book My Stroke of Insight. 

As irony would have it, at 37 years old, Dr. Jill experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain. Within hours, she lost the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life.

Today, Dr. Jill passionately shares her 8-year-long journey to rebuild her brain and recover all physical, emotional, and thinking abilities, in addition to her latest groundbreaking work: Whole Brain Living.

Beyond neuroscience, this conversation will teach you how to work with your most powerful ally, your brain, and give you the insight to deepen your inner peace, joy, and fulfillment.

SHOW NOTES:

  • After her brother's diagnosis with schizophrenia, Dr. Jill became intrigued with the brain, earning her doctrine in neuroanatomy from Harvard.
  • December 10, 1996: At 37 years old, a blood vessel in Jill's brain exploded and within four hours, was unable to function.
  • Grateful to be alive, Dr. Jill spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk.
  • With over 30 million views, watch Dr. Jill's popular TED Talk here.
  • The right hemisphere of our brain is in the moment whereas the left hemisphere is more calculated and has linearity of time.
  • Four characters of the brain: Character 1, Left Thinking; Character 2, Left Emotion; Character 3, Right Emotion; and Character 4, Right Thinking.
  • Get a copy of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's New York Times bestselling book My Stroke of Insight here and Whole Brain Living here.
  • After her brother’s diagnosis with schizophrenia, Dr. Jill became intrigued with the brain, earning her doctrine in neuroanatomy from Harvard.
  • December 10, 1996: At 37 years old, a blood vessel in Jill’s brain exploded and within four hours, was unable to function.
  • Grateful to be alive, Dr. Jill spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk.
  • With over 30 million views, watch Dr. Jill’s popular TED Talk here.
  • The right hemisphere of our brain is in the moment whereas the left hemisphere is more calculated and has linearity of time.
  • Four characters of the brain: Character 1, Left Thinking; Character 2, Left Emotion; Character 3, Right Emotion; and Character 4, Right Thinking.
  • Get a copy of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s New York Times bestselling book My Stroke of Insight here and Whole Brain Living here.

DR. JILL BOLTE TAYLOR'S LIVE INSPIRED 7

  1. Q. What is the best book you’ve ever read?
    A. Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates.
  2. Q. What is a characteristic or trait that you possessed as a child that you wish you still exhibited today?
    A. Play and joy.
  3. Q. Your house is on fire, all living things and people are out. You have the opportunity to run in and grab one item. What would it be?
    A. My computer. I have a beautiful portrait of my mother but it's on my computer.
  4. Q. You are sitting on a bench overlooking a gorgeous beach. You have the opportunity to have a long conversation with anyone living or dead. Who would it be? 
    A. An unknown who needed some love.
  5. Q. What is the best advice you’ve ever received? 
    A. Don't believe everything your brain says to you.
  6. Q. What advice would you give your 20-year-old self?
    A. Everything is going to be okay.
  7. Q. It’s been said that all great people can have their lives summed up in one sentence. How do you want yours to read? 
    A. I want to skid into home base completely used up, completely scarred up, completely messed up because I really lived as I ran the bases of life.

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you and your business at keelycom.com. Welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary.

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John is the number one national bestselling author of the book On Fire.

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He's a world-class inspirational speaker and he's the host of the Live Inspired podcast.

0:48.1

John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from

0:53.7

accidental living and more fully live your

0:56.6

life story. Here's your host, John O'Leary. Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live

1:03.1

Inspired podcast with John O'Leary. Our guest today is a Harvard trained and published

1:09.7

Neuroanatimist.

1:11.0

She's the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Stroke of Insight.

1:16.7

Her TED Talk has been viewed more than 30 million times.

1:21.4

Imagine that.

1:22.3

And she's been chosen as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.

1:29.0

As irony would have it, though, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor at age 37, experienced a severe hemorrhage

1:35.8

in the left hemisphere of her brain. Within hours, she lost the ability to walk, to talk,

1:43.9

to read, to write, or to recall any of her past life.

1:49.2

But in addition to passionately sharing her eight-year journey back to rebuild her brain,

1:55.6

to recover her physical and emotional and her thinking abilities,

1:59.6

Dr. Jill today is going to share her latest work called

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