My Stroke of Insight () is a non-fiction book by American author Jill Bolte Taylor. In it, she tells of her experience in of having a stroke in her left. Jill Bolte Taylor was in her late 30s when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. The irony? Taylor is a neurological researcher. While a stroke. The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist’s own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, , Jill Bolte Taylor.

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May 14, AJ rated it really liked it Shelves: The information in this book could have been iill at phamplet size. I found it alternately fascinating and incredibly irritating.
Eventually, the whole number gets dialed and I’m listening to the phone, and my colleague picks up the phone and he says to me, “Woo woo woo woo. I become a single solid individual, separate from the energy flow around me and separate from you. Today I almost can’t tell that I had one. Jill also talked about re-entering a world where the boundaries between real and unreal were very fluid And it just gripped me — and then it released me.
I volte sure I was awake, yet, I felt as if I was trapped inside the perception of a meditation that I could neither stop nor escape. And then it crosses my mind, “But I’m a very busy woman!
Turned out to be too cerebral? There is some useful information in this section for those involved in stroke victim care. Again this resonates very much with many of the able pupils I see who can easily become convinced that they’re interpretation of things is correct even though there may be overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Another Goodreads reviewer Lena has said: But first, let me tell you more about what’s so valuable about this book. Brings back memories of books we read! This editor was either asleep, drunk, or high, as evidenced by the truly apalling and nauseating over-use of italics and exclamation points. Working with young peo What a fascinating and inspiring book.

Maybe I’ll have more to stay about this book once I have a book club meeting about it in a couple of weeks. Some sections are highly repetitive, I was confused about certain aspects of her level of functioning and recovery, and the flow of the narrative was very uneven.
It was not always obvious which was which, and I suspect many readers will be confused and assume her personal theories are more scientifically grounded than they actually are. Wikiquote has quotations related to: For other uses, see Jill Taylor disambiguation.
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
One funny detail during the stroke is that, while she’s rapidly losing the ability to conceptualize numbers and language, somehow part of her brain still knew she needed HMO approval prior to using emergency services — and found the HMO card and called her HMO doctor without really knowing what a doctor or numbers really were.
Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Following her experience with stroke, in Bolte Taylor came out with the initial edition of her book My Stroke of Insight: It gives explanations to us.
Though Bolte Taylor does not specifically mention religion in the book, strooke numerous allusions to prayer, visualization, energy, and oneness make it clear that she subscribes to a certain kind of belief system that her experiences are filtered through. She explains that her damaged left hemisphere gave her right hemisphere a chance to flourish, and thus taught her the value of her right hemisphere. Taylor rightaided her recovery.

And imagine what it would feel like to lose 37 years of emotional baggage! And I think to myself, “Oh my gosh, he sounds like a Golden Retriever! It is life-enhancing and thought provoking, two things you don’t get every day.
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And we can instruct it what to pay attention to. I’ve got a problem! Maybe this is a crazy idea Bolte Taylor’s personal experience with a massive stroke, experienced in at the age of 37, and her subsequent eight-year recovery, has informed her work as a scientist and speaker. For me, the most fascinating part of this book is the description of the actual stroke and the immediate aftermath. But I think this book would have been much more valuable had Bolte Taylor used her scientifically trained left-brain to more clearly separate her anecdotal experience and beliefs what science actually tells us about our fascinating brains.
For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a revelation.
Instead of finding answers and information, I met a growing sense of peace. Aug 02, Joanne Sperans rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: By the last few chapters, I felt as though Taylor were just making stuff up.
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight | TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript | TED
It’s one part pop-science, 1 part survival memoir, 1 part oddly cold narcissism, and 1 part new age metaphysics. Pages to import images to Wikidata. Bolte Taylor considers boltte experiences to be the result of her right brain suddenly being given the chance to run the show while her left brain was incapacitated. And I’m jamming away on this thing, joll I’m realizing that my hands look like primitive claws grasping onto the bar.
Many thanks, Jill, for sharing your experience and offering words of hope and encouragement to so many others—survivors and care-givers alike! We are energy-beings connected to one another through the consciousness of our right hemispheres as one human family.
And my spirit soared free, like a great whale gliding through the tqylor of silent euphoria. It would be fruitless to only ask questions she knew she could get right.
You muscles, you’ve got to contract.

The two hemispheres do communicate with one another through the corpus callosum, insiggt is made up of some million axonal fibers. Though I couldn’t find any evidence in the literature for this
