497: How to Harness Your Brain’s 4 Characters & Live With Deep Inner Peace | Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

<p>Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: <a href= "https://bit.ly/497drjillboltetaylor" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://bit.ly/497drjillboltetaylor</a></p> <p>Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (IG: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/drjillboltetaylor/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">@drjillboltetaylor</a>) is a Harvard-trained and published neuroscientist.</p> <p>In 1996 she experienced a severe hemorrhage 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, <a href= "https://geni.us/xoghUG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">My Stroke of Insight</a>, documenting her experience with stroke and eight-year recovery, spent 63 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.</p> <p>Dr. Jill is a dynamic teacher and public speaker who loves educating about the beauty of our human brain.</p> <p>Today we’re discussing her latest book, <a href= "https://geni.us/EdiRFB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life</a>.</p> <p><strong>In this episode, we discuss:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Suffering from a life-changing stroke at age 37</li> <li>Signs & symptoms Dr. Jill experienced during her stroke</li> <li>What it’s like to have half your brain shut down</li> <li>Dr. Jill’s experience post stroke vs. a psychedelic trip</li> <li>The silver lining on the other side of her brain trauma</li> <li>Growing up right-brain to becoming whole brain</li> <li>Life and death are on a continuum</li> <li>Making the conscious decision to recover</li> <li>We need sleep to heal the brain</li> <li>Dr. Jill’s mother followed her natural rhythm for recovery</li> <li>How her family supported her brother with schizophrenia</li> <li>The value of life</li> <li>A rare ​​​​congenital malformation caused Dr. Jill’s stroke</li> <li>The skills of your beautiful right hemisphere</li> <li>The four different characters inside your brain</li> <li>We’ve evolved to have an overly dominant left brain</li> <li>D