The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett No.1 Brain Scientist: Your Brain Is Lying To You! Here's How I Discovered The Truth!
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Nov 6, 2025 
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist and bestselling author, shares her incredible journey after surviving a stroke that reshaped her understanding of consciousness and identity. She discusses how to escape the brain loop of stress, the importance of engaging different brain parts, and the role of trauma in our lives. Jill also introduces her four brain-based personalities and offers practical exercises for emotional balance. Her insights on neuroplasticity highlight how we can retrain our brains and heal from trauma.
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Society Is Skewed Toward Left-Brain Values
- Our society overvalues the left hemisphere's analytical, ego-focused skills and runs much of life on that imbalance.
- Jill argues whole-brain living requires recognizing and valuing the right hemisphere's present-moment, connected capacities.
My Stroke Of Insight: Losing The Left Hemisphere
- Jill experienced a hemorrhagic stroke that destroyed much of her left hemisphere, leaving her euphoric and without language or identity.
- She spent hours drifting between blissful present-moment states and fragmented attempts to get help before being taken to hospital.
Right Hemisphere Fuels Connected Perspective
- The right hemisphere fosters connection, treating others and the planet as part of one system rather than separated individuals.
- Activating right-hemisphere perspective leads to empathy and collective stewardship.
