Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

I call her Helen, hell on wheels.

She gets it done.

You're talking to Helen right now.

She's giving you facts and details.

She is all about what is right and wrong and good and bad.

How do I fit myself into a society?

How do I use my words in order to communicate?

So this is the part of us that goes to work.

It's our A-type personality.

Character one, left thinking.

Yeah.

Well, it's this outer.

This outer layer of cells is called the cerebral cortex.

And the cerebral cortex is actually in human made up of mostly six layers of cells.

It's very complex.

In some areas, especially where you have sensory systems, it's just going to be four layers.

But this is a complex portion of the organ that separates us from other animals.

So character two is going to be the left emotion.

Now, the difference between the things you can say predictably about the left hemisphere is it has linearity across time, and it has me, the individual.

And my emotional system then has my past pain, and it's kind of always looking for a reason to knee-jerk react and have emotional reactivity.