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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey - Jill Bolte Taylor
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment On 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. As she observed her... show more
The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment On 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. 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 would take her eight years to fully recover. For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a revelation. It taught her that by "stepping to the right" of our left brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being that are often sidelined by "brain chatter." Reaching wide audiences through her talk at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference and her appearance on Oprah's online Soul Series, Taylor provides a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury and an inspiring testimony that inner peace is accessible to anyone.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780670020744 (0670020745)
ASIN: 670020745
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 184
Edition language: English
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Misericordia
Misericordia rated it
5.0 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
An insider to a stroke, Jill has given a fascinating insider review of what happens when brain suffers.
Morbid Obsession (Kynthos)
Morbid Obsession (Kynthos) rated it
0.0
What happens when a Brain Scientist suffers a brain damage due to a stroke? Write a book about it and bring others into said quirky brain of course :D
auntieannie
auntieannie rated it
3.0 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
37 year old research scientist experiences an AVM-type stroke and lives to recover (over the course of 8 years) and write about. Fascinating first-person account, and rather heavy on the right-brain preference after the stroke.The most interesting chapters to me were about her experience of the stro...
Reading Maketh a Full Man...
Reading Maketh a Full Man... rated it
2.0 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
This book was difficult to review. On one hand parts of the book are really well done, but the other parts are very poor. So how to you rate the whole thing?The excellent portion of this book had to do with the documentation of the stroke the author suffered at 37. Being a brain scientist by prof...
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