My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientists Personal Journey Taylor Jill BoltePaperback
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientists Personal Journey Taylor Jill BoltePaperback The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to…
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientists Personal Journey Taylor Jill BoltePaperback
The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenmentOn December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. It would take her eight years to fully recover.For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a revelation. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life-all within four hours-Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost.
It taught her that by stepping to the right of our left brains,