TEDTalk: A Neuroanatomist About Her Own Stroke March 14, 2008
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Education, Medicine, science.trackback
I’m a big fan of TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conference. I’m pretty sure that many of us dream about giving a presentation once at TED. Now I’d like to share a unique talk with you which was given by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist who
…had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Check out some other interesting talks as well:
I just love lectures of this kind. This pure science talk brings tears to my eyes (don’t ask me why!). There is an other lecture that I watched on BBC that I’m sure you would like (if you haven’t seen it yet):
Gene pioneer Dr. J. Craig Venter gives the 32nd Richard Dimbleby Lecture
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xaDKbhe3AIM
Enjoy
I’m sorry, I wrote my comment half way through the lecture. After which the lecture took a different path. In my opinion, she could have ended in a different way that might have been more effective.
Dr. Craig is whole different story. I love it how he knows something about everything! Man, he is so bright and intelligent! I don’t remember listing to such a lecture before. He is a great speaker and knows how to simplify the facts for the ordinary audience.
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I’m an admirer of Venter, but many scientist don’t like him because of his celebrity position.
Anyway, thank you for the Youtube link, YS!
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I read “My Stroke of Insight” in one sitting - I couldn’t put it down. I laughed. I cried. It was a fantastic book (I heard it’s a NYTimes Bestseller and I can see why!), but I also think it will be the start of a new, transformative Movement! No one wants to have a stroke as Jill Bolte Taylor did, but her experience can teach us all how to live better lives. Her TED.com speech was one of the most incredibly moving, stimulating, wonderful videos I’ve ever seen. Her Oprah Soul Series interviews were fascinating. They should make a movie of her life so everyone sees it. This is the Real Deal and gives me hope for humanity.
Thank you for that. Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight is one of the most incredible stories I’ve heard in a long time. Her TEDTalk video blew my mind wide open to new possibilities. On the one hand, there’s what she went through and how she emerged from it. On the other hand, there’s what she can teach all of us.
I saw the 4 part Oprah interview on Oprah dot com Soul Series and I did learn a lot from that, but I’d like to find our more of how to do what Dr. Taylor did, without having a stroke of course!
Thin how many of us are living too much in the head, and not the heart. And of course, you can’t get more left brain than a Harvard Brain Scientist. Isn’t it ironic that she should be the one to have the stroke and transform from the quintessential left brainer into this “”seen the light”" disciple of finding inner peace?
I hope this movement keeps going. Maybe there will be My Stroke of Insight classes where we can practice what Jill Bolte Taylor is preaching.