Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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But it's only a quarter of our brain.
Well, we're out of balance.
We're completely out of balance because we're at the balance of the value of that left brain.
What's going on in the right brain?
The right brain is right here, right now.
We spend so much of our time.
So fundamental differences between the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere.
And I know this only because I lost my left hemisphere and that's all I had for eight years.
I had to use what I had currently going on in my right hemisphere after I lost those cells of the left hemisphere in order to rebuild the skill sets of the left brain so that I could become completely functional again.
Are we unhappy?
Well, that's not a happy part of the brain.
When you're being analytical and organized and structured, you probably got that frown right there, you know?
And it's a different expression than as soon as I said a little puppy comes in and then all of a sudden your face happens.
Well, what happens is you're shifting into a different part of your brain.
And that's what we do.
We're running it on automatic.
So if we are running our brain on automatic, imagine how much better we might do if we were actually picking and choosing who and how we wanted to be on purpose.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
You're going to so get it and it will.