Episode 24. Stroke with Jill Bolte Taylor - Author of My Stroke of Insight

In this episode I am joined by Harvard-trained neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor, author of the best-selling illness memoir titled My Stroke of Insight. This now classical book spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, and is still routinely the #1 book in the category Stroke in the Amazon marketplace.

We discuss her experience of suffering from a stroke in which she bled into the left side of her brain from a vascular malformation. She passionately recounted the insights she gained from this in terms of the benefits of right hemisphere brain function.

This podcast goes to show why she was one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2008, why she was the premiere guest on Oprah Winfrey’s “Soul Series” webcast, and why her 2008 TEDTalk was the first to ever go viral - now with well over 2 ...