Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

I could still visualize the emotional circuits.

I just didn't have any of them anymore.

So it's like, okay, well, what do I need to do in order to reconstruct and rebuild those circuits so they can become functional again?

So then I regained a new... It was a new reboot for the emotions, but I used what I had in my right hemisphere to rebuild those skills in my left hemisphere.

And so I learned what's going on in these different parts of cells.

And so then it's like...

Okay, well, I have the power to choose.

I can choose in an instant.

I can become very angry.

I can hit those left emotional.

I can become very analytical and do some mathematics with you.

I can become very experiential and playful and joyful and creative in an instant.

or I can pause and connect to the bigger picture and automatically right there, I don't know if you noticed, but there was a skip in my language because the language shuts out because I become actually in the present moment and there's no language there.

So because I had this experience, I gained this insight and then I gave a TED Talk and it was the first TED Talk that ever went viral.

It was in 2008.

And that exploded Joe Bolte Taylor into the world and Ted into the world.

So that became this really interesting thing.

And then I was chosen as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world because they recognized what this meant to the bigger picture of humanity.

And then my book, which I had already written, My Stroke of Insight, ended up spending 63 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

So all of that happened.