My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor Summary
Overview of My Stroke of Insight
When a Harvard neuroanatomist experiences her own stroke, science meets spirituality. Jill Bolte Taylor's journey - named among Time's 100 most influential people - reveals how brain trauma unlocked profound insights that captivated Oprah and millions of TED viewers worldwide.
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핵심 내용
When a Brain Scientist's Brain Broke
December 10, 1996. A Harvard neuroanatomist wakes with a headache that will dismantle everything she knows-literally. Within hours, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor watches her own brain hemorrhage from the inside, observing with scientific precision as her ability to walk, talk, read, and remember evaporates. But here's what makes this extraordinary: she survives to tell us what consciousness looks like when half of it disappears. Her 2008 TED Talk became one of the most-watched in history, landing her on Time's most influential list. Why? Because she returned from a place few visit and fewer still can describe-the edge where self dissolves and something else emerges. Taylor didn't stumble into neuroscience-she was pulled there by love and desperation. Her brother's schizophrenia diagnosis shattered her family's world, transforming a vibrant young man into someone fighting invisible demons. While others saw tragedy, Taylor saw a question: what happens in the brain when reality fractures? By her thirties, she was at Harvard Medical School, one of the youngest board members of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, crisscrossing America with an unusual pitch. She needed brains. Not metaphorically-literally. Research required donated tissue, but people weren't donating. So Taylor became the "Singin' Scientist," wielding a brain-shaped guitar and performing jingles about organ donation. Absurd? Perhaps. Effective? Absolutely. Annual donations jumped from three to thirty-five. In the lab, she pioneered techniques for visualizing multiple neurotransmitter systems simultaneously-groundbreaking work that revealed how neural networks communicate. She was riding high, publishing papers, earning recognition. Then her own brain became the experiment. This isn't just a medical memoir. It's a map of human consciousness drawn by someone who accidentally crossed its borders.
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"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
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"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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