WOW IDEA # 2 A Stroke of Insight (a real stroke)
This “WOW Idea” is about Jill Taylor, a brain scientist who lost her “Left-Brain” in a stroke and gained the “Bliss” of the “Right-Brain” at a price.
It shows that we need the “Left-Brain” as a MEANS to an End (to Function in the world effectively) but the GOAL seems to be the “Right-Brain” (Bliss, Wonder, Awe, Love ... all the things that make life worth living).
We seem to be a living “Dialectic”. Some of us are more “Right” and others of us more “Left”. Is the answer again ... “Balance”?
On the left, nothing's right, and on the right nothing is left :-)
Hope you enjoy this talk. Keep in touch
Andre de Zanger
212 289-8856
creativityinstitute@juno.com
Call me on Skype or Yahoo Messager
MY STROKE OF INSIGHT by JILL BOLTE TAYLOR:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
About this talk
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
About Jill Bolte Taylor
Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened -- and has become a powerful voice for brain recovery
One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness. Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the "Singin' Scientist."
"How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I've gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career."
Jill Bolte Taylor
It shows that we need the “Left-Brain” as a MEANS to an End (to Function in the world effectively) but the GOAL seems to be the “Right-Brain” (Bliss, Wonder, Awe, Love ... all the things that make life worth living).
We seem to be a living “Dialectic”. Some of us are more “Right” and others of us more “Left”. Is the answer again ... “Balance”?
On the left, nothing's right, and on the right nothing is left :-)
Hope you enjoy this talk. Keep in touch
Andre de Zanger
212 289-8856
creativityinstitute@juno.com
Call me on Skype or Yahoo Messager
MY STROKE OF INSIGHT by JILL BOLTE TAYLOR:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
About this talk
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
About Jill Bolte Taylor
Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened -- and has become a powerful voice for brain recovery
One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness. Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the "Singin' Scientist."
"How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I've gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career."
Jill Bolte Taylor
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