Nov 6, 2025 4 products

Harvard Neuroscientist DR. JILL BOLTE TAYLOR reveals How to Retrain Your Brain, Heal Trauma, Control Emotions, and Unlock the 4 Characters Running Your Mind.

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained brain scientist who experienced a stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain and spent 8 years recovering. She is best known for her viral TED Talk “My Stroke of Insight” and is the bestselling author of books including Whole Brain Living.

She explains:

◼️What her near-death stroke taught her about consciousness, ego, and identity

◼️How to escape the brain loop keeping you stuck in stress and anxiety

◼️How technology and habits are silently shrinking your brain’s potential

◼️Why overthinking physically damages your brain, and how to reverse it fast

◼️What holding a REAL human brain taught her about life and death

00:00 Intro

02:18 Understanding Your Brain Will Help Improve Your Life

05:10 Can You Choose What Part of Your Brain to Use?

09:10 A Real Brain with a Spinal Cord

15:41 The Central Nervous System

18:51 The Event That Changed Your Brain Forever

21:51 When I Realised It Was Life or Death

25:15 Damage to the Left Side of My Brain: I Couldn't Speak or Remember Anything

26:37 The Importance of Having Fun and Being Present

32:11 Reaching for Help During the Stroke

37:35 What Did the Scan Show?

43:40 Ads

44:43 Where Do These 4 Personalities Exist in the Brain?

47:46 Where Addiction Lives

49:25 What Are the 4 Personality Types?

54:59 The Odds of a Single Human Being Born

01:04:58 How to Shift Between the 4 Characters

01:10:07 Ads

01:12:11 Emotions Only Last for 90 Seconds

01:21:45 How to Heal Trauma from the Past

01:25:44 Lifestyle Choices for a Healthy Brain

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