Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: Revealing the brain’s innate connection to stories and storytelling

When Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor -- a Harvard trained brain scientist -- suffered a massive stroke in 1996, the experience set her on a journey of discovery that would touch people of all kinds and in all parts of the world. Her 2008 TED Talk was the first to go viral (it's now been seen by over 26 million people), and her best-selling book, My Stroke of Insight, continues to inform and inspire people with its extraordinary revelations about the brain and consciousness. Her latest book, Whole Brain Living, explores the four distinct "characters" that reside in everyone's brain -- and in this moving interview, she reveals how storytelling has been essential to her success as a scientist, and how each of us is biologically hard-wired to see the world through the lens of story. #stories #storytelling #storytellers #scientists #brainscience #braininjury #stroke #strokerecovery #strokestories #strokesurvivors #mystrokeofinsight #tedtalks #brainhemorrhage #brainfunction #drawingontherightsideofthebrain #STEM #STEMstories #STEMresearch #bestsellers