The New York Times Bestselling
My Stroke of Insight
(spent 63 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list)
“[Dr. Taylor] brings a deep personal understanding to something she long studied: that the two lobes of the brain have very different personalities.”
— The New York Times
On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life-all within four hours-Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost.
It would take her eight years to fully recover.
For Taylor, her stroke was a revelation and a blessing. It taught her that by “stepping to the right” of our left brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being that are often sidelined by incessant “brain chatter.” Reaching wide audiences through her talk at the TED conference and her appearance on Oprah’s online Soul Series, Taylor provides not only a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury, but an inspiring testimony that inner peace is accessible to anyone.
Foreign Publications
My Stroke of Insight is a New York Times Bestseller from 2008 and is published by Penguin Group USA. You may order a copy through online stores including Amazon and Barnes & Noble, or ask your local bookstore. It is available in hardcover, paperback, audio (abridged and unabridged, both read by the author), and large-print edition. Foreign editions are also available and published in over 30 languages.
