Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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And if I can hold on to that and I come from that place, then I'm going to be more consciously aware of what I'm building over here and how much time I'm spending in that beautiful left hemisphere.
This is not about be a right brain or be a left brain.
This is about being a whole human, being a whole brain and fueling all these different parts of who we are and loving all these parts of who we are.
I want them to understand that every ability we have, we have brain cells that perform that function.
And that this brain is this really precious, vulnerable thing.
So I encourage people to take care of it.
We exist in a society where we do drugs and alcohol that just, you know, I...
I lost my mind.
I lost so much of my brain, and I worked so hard to rebuild it that I'll drink a beer maybe twice a year and love it, but that's enough for me because I want to preserve and protect what's going on inside of my head.
And I think that if people really value all four skill setsβ
of what these four different parts of their brain bring to their life, they will see that they can truly live a life on purpose and that they can gain the power to, in any moment, be who they want to be.
And to me, that's freedom.
So I am...
And since your population is entrepreneurial and probably spends most of its time doing the hard work of the left brain, I think that the actionable is to pause every now and again and ask yourself, which part of my brain am I in right now?
And what choices do I want?
Do I want to stay there?
And this is also for if I become upset.
Our emotional reactivity, we have the power to watch an emotion.
We have a thought.
It stimulates the circuit of an emotion.