Hi, I have a very special guest today.

If you are young enough that you were totally aware of the stuff that was going on in 2008,

then you probably remember the publication of a book called My Stroke of Insight by a

woman named Jill Bolt Taylor.

This book really changed a conversation that we were all having about the brain and

about spirituality, what scientists were beginning to understand.

Because Jill Bolt Taylor is herself a Harvard-trained and published neuroscientist.

In 1996, she experiences severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain, causing

her to lose the ability to walk, to talk, to read, write, or recall any of her life.

Her memoir, which was that book, My Stroke of Insight, documented her experience with

that stroke and an eight-year recovery period.

The book spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, and now she has

a new book.

And this one is called The Whole Brain, the anatomy of choice and the four characters that

drive our life.

It's just as good as the first one, and I'm so honored to have her here.

Jill, thank you so much for being here.

Marianne, it's so good to be with you again, and it's so good to see you, thank you.

Thank you.

First of all, tell me, how do you feel that My Stroke of Insight both changed the culture

and also led to the second book?

Well, you know, it's interesting because it's been now 13 years since My Stroke of Insight

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