Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

We are feeling creatures who think.

So a lot of character threes, actually, we have character three moments that land us in jail because it's not thinking about consequences of behavior.

It's just thinking, oh yeah, the neighbor's pool.

It's three o'clock in the morning.

They won't notice.

Let's go jump in their pool.

And then the next thing we know, you know, we've been arrested.

So then character four is the thinking portion of our brain.

This is our wisdom.

We go and we have experiences and we learn because neuroplasticity is real.

And we have to have neuroplasticity.

And this is all about the cells.

neurons in real time reaching out, making new connections constantly, but their cell bodies are in position.

But in order for me to make an association between you and something else, then I actually grow to you and I grow to the something else and then I learn about that.

So our capacity to learn is the underlying feature is neuroplasticity.

I would not be sitting here talking to you today if neuroplasticity didn't turn on fire.

When I needed it for eight years and it took eight years for me to use what I had in this brain to rebuild the skill sets of this brain.

But the thinking portion, the character for portion of our brain is the wisdom that we gain from the knowledge that we have had and we have associated it and we can relate to it.

And this part, all it cares about is that emotion that I felt that morning, which was awe.

Awe that I'm alive at all.