Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke Of Insight
September 9, 2009
To follow beautifully on looking at the way we perceive the self through the workings of our mind… Is a talk from Jill Bolte Taylor, that begs the question of choosing how we perceive the world around us, by observing the way in which We (or rather, in this instance, she) function first hand.
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
About Jill Bolte Taylor:
One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness…
Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the “Singin’ Scientist.”
“How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I’ve gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career.”
Jill Bolte Taylor
Big up Jill… You’re beautiful and we’re very grateful (and very lucky) to have you here with us today to share your amazing, heartfelt story with the world! Here’s to perceiving the world through “love”.
To find out more about Jill and what she gets up to now-a-days on planet Earth, please click here.
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