Try free for 30 days
-
My Stroke of Insight
- Narrated by: Jill Bolte Taylor
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $21.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also picked
-
Whole Brain Living
- The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life
- By: Jill Bolte Taylor Ph.D
- Narrated by: Jill Bolte Taylor Ph.D
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For half a century, we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it's not that simple: In fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. Consequently, each hemisphere has both an emotional brain and a thinking brain. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor presents these four distinct modules of cells as four characters that make up who we are.
-
-
Amazing book!
- By Anonymous User on 09-06-2021
-
The Indoctrinated Brain
- How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
- By: Michael Nehls
- Narrated by: Sam Wells
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Throughout the world, mental capacity is declining, especially among young people, while depression rates are rising dramatically. Meanwhile, one in forty men and women suffers from Alzheimer's, and the age of onset is falling rapidly. But the causes are not being eliminated, quite the opposite. Can this just be coincidence? The Indoctrinated Brain introduces a largely unknown, powerful neurobiological mechanism whose externally induced dysfunction underlies these catastrophic developments.
-
-
There are options
- By Leonie F. Murray on 09-02-2024
-
Synchrodestiny
- Discover the Power of Meaningful Coincidence to Manifest Abundance in Your Life
- By: Deepak Chopra MD
- Narrated by: Deepak Chopra
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From time to time, we've all experienced coincidences that seem to be endowed with a special meaning or significance, and that appear to defy the laws of probability. For the most part, these coincidences seem amusing or insignificant. But a famous psychologist defined these moments of meaningful coincidence as "Synchronicity".
-
-
amazing information
- By Debra on 12-11-2017
-
A Mind at Home with Itself
- How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around
- By: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
- Narrated by: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell, Pete Simonelli, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly translated by distinguished scholar Stephen Mitchell), to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry called "The Work". Byron Katie doesn't merely describe the awakened mind; she empowers us to see it and feel it in action.
-
-
I'm so grateful for you and for the work Kaitie.
- By L A on 04-02-2019
-
A Whole New Mind
- Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
- By: Daniel H. Pink
- Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lawyers. Accountants. Software Engineers. That what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and emphatic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.
-
-
More than just a prognostication
- By Rob on 03-08-2015
-
How Emotions Are Made
- The Secret Life of the Brain
- By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.
-
-
Groundbraking, but useless
- By J on 14-11-2021
-
Whole Brain Living
- The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life
- By: Jill Bolte Taylor Ph.D
- Narrated by: Jill Bolte Taylor Ph.D
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For half a century, we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it's not that simple: In fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. Consequently, each hemisphere has both an emotional brain and a thinking brain. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor presents these four distinct modules of cells as four characters that make up who we are.
-
-
Amazing book!
- By Anonymous User on 09-06-2021
-
The Indoctrinated Brain
- How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
- By: Michael Nehls
- Narrated by: Sam Wells
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Throughout the world, mental capacity is declining, especially among young people, while depression rates are rising dramatically. Meanwhile, one in forty men and women suffers from Alzheimer's, and the age of onset is falling rapidly. But the causes are not being eliminated, quite the opposite. Can this just be coincidence? The Indoctrinated Brain introduces a largely unknown, powerful neurobiological mechanism whose externally induced dysfunction underlies these catastrophic developments.
-
-
There are options
- By Leonie F. Murray on 09-02-2024
-
Synchrodestiny
- Discover the Power of Meaningful Coincidence to Manifest Abundance in Your Life
- By: Deepak Chopra MD
- Narrated by: Deepak Chopra
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From time to time, we've all experienced coincidences that seem to be endowed with a special meaning or significance, and that appear to defy the laws of probability. For the most part, these coincidences seem amusing or insignificant. But a famous psychologist defined these moments of meaningful coincidence as "Synchronicity".
-
-
amazing information
- By Debra on 12-11-2017
-
A Mind at Home with Itself
- How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around
- By: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
- Narrated by: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell, Pete Simonelli, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly translated by distinguished scholar Stephen Mitchell), to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry called "The Work". Byron Katie doesn't merely describe the awakened mind; she empowers us to see it and feel it in action.
-
-
I'm so grateful for you and for the work Kaitie.
- By L A on 04-02-2019
-
A Whole New Mind
- Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
- By: Daniel H. Pink
- Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lawyers. Accountants. Software Engineers. That what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and emphatic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.
-
-
More than just a prognostication
- By Rob on 03-08-2015
-
How Emotions Are Made
- The Secret Life of the Brain
- By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.
-
-
Groundbraking, but useless
- By J on 14-11-2021
-
The Wuhan Cover-Up
- And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
- Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.
-
-
Unbelievable!
- By Robert on 19-12-2023
-
Follow Your North Star
- By: Martha Beck
- Narrated by: Martha Beck
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Is it possible for a news anchor to become a professional athlete? Can a disheartened architect build a new career as a luxury car designer? They can, and they have, says Martha Beck, whose advice is sought each month by over two million readers in O: The Oprah Magazine. Now, on Follow Your North Star, she teaches you how to recognize the cues from within that will tell you whether your job, relationship, environment (even your daily schedule) are leading you in the right direction.
-
-
Powerful, Beautiful, Healing, Expansive
- By Evelyn on 13-10-2020
-
No Self, No Problem
- How Neuropsychology is Catching Up to Buddhism
- By: Chris Niebauer PhD
- Narrated by: Charlie Varon
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this groundbreaking audiobook, neuropsychology professor Chris Niebauer explains how after decades of research on the brain, Western science may have inadvertently confirmed a fundamental tenet of Buddhism: anatta, or the doctrine of "no self". Niebauer shows how findings in neuropsychology suggest that our sense of self is actually an illusion created by the left side of the brain and that it exists in the same way a mirage in the middle of the desert exists: as a thought rather than a thing.
-
-
Only people who has done good Karma hear about this book
- By Lalith de silva on 20-03-2023
-
Social Justice Fallacies
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot stand up to documented facts, which are often the opposite of what is widely believed.
-
-
The man still has it
- By Anonymous User on 01-11-2023
-
Just a Thought
- A No-Willpower Approach to Overcome Self-Doubt and Make Peace with Your Mind
- By: Amy Johnson PhD
- Narrated by: Amy Johnson
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When you understand how your mind works, unhelpful and noisy thoughts move to the background, and your awareness shifts to something quieter and deeper. This is true peace of mind. And it's not some unattainable goal reserved for the most enlightened. Anyone can experience it. From life coach and psychologist Amy Johnson, this guide offers a no-willpower approach informed by ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience to help you change your negative thinking habits, make peace with your inner critic, and experience more self-confidence and freedom than you ever thought possible.
-
-
Top book even for a personal development book lover
- By Anonymous User on 11-11-2023
-
Real Magic
- Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe
- By: Dean Radin
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) turns a critical eye toward such practices as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis. Are such powers really possible? Science says yes. According to noted scientist and best-selling author of The Conscious Universe, Dean Radin, magic is a natural aspect of reality, and each of us can tap into this power with diligent practice.
-
-
Outstanding work by a fine scientist.
- By Craig P on 18-08-2018
Publisher's Summary
The international best seller and recommended by medics, patients and the NHS, this is a brain scientist's personal experience of a stroke. It tells of her journey and gives rare insight into human consciousness and its possibilities for all of us.
On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain.
A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she lost the ability to walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life, all within the space of four hours. As the damaged left side of her brain - the rational, logical, detail and time-oriented side - swung in and out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realities: the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and emotional right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical left brain that realised Jill was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely.
In My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Taylor brings to light a new perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery that she gained through the intimate experience of awakening her own injured mind. The journey to recovery took eight years for Jill to feel completely healed. Using her knowledge of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and an amazing mother, Taylor completely repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of the world according to the insight gained from her right brain that December morning.
What listeners say about My Stroke of Insight
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 07-11-2023
Amazing first hand account of stroke and recovery as told by a neuroscientist.
Dr Jill Bolte Taylor’s TEDTalk was the first TEDTalk I ever saw many years ago, and it was inspirational back, then, to hear her firsthand account of going through a stroke, and watching the borders of her body dissolve. After a very dear friend of mine had a serious stroke, I remembered Jill’s talk and searched for her and found this book. It was wonderful to be able to hear her speak about her account of her stroke and the process of recovery, and the long arc that it took and not to be disheartened. I can’t recommend this book highly enough I would love to read more of her account and how she puts her understanding Into action. Excellent audiobook!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 01-02-2019
A greater understanding.
As a aneurysm survivor you have made me understand insightly the performance of our brains. Thanks
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Story
- Kindle Customer
- 22-08-2021
essential reading
such a unique insight into how the brain functions from an insider perspective. Also essential reading for anyone involved in stroke recovery. loved it!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mary
- 07-01-2022
Amazing
This is a amazingly well written & read book by the author. Insightful & with a wealth of information of the first hand experience of trauma & how to pay attention to our bodies response to our right & left thinking. A highly intelligent women with a great ability to explain in detail the workings of the brain & the choice to use it for a happier, peaceful & productive life.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Merrilee Baker
- 04-09-2023
Profound and moving
Having studied integrating the brain and ‘crossing the midline’ in the early 1980’s, Dan Siegels’Mind’ around 2016 and just recently listening to Iain McGilchrist videos but having difficulty listening to the Master … it shows I have been curious for a long time. ‘Where is the mind?’ Jill’s lived experience has brought me a deeper understanding that my left brain can accept as truth. Thank you
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- jessica
- 13-02-2024
The knowledge behind the experience
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. It is indeed insightful. Having been through a stroke myself it has helped me with accepting the new me however it is important to note that each stroke is different. My experience has been very different from hers but still it was very interesting to find out about another stroke survivor.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Karen
- 13-03-2019
Such an incredibly important book.. thank you Jill
Thank you Jill for sharing your incredible understanding and insight into your mind and through you, our own minds and body. I was telling my husband just last week about the duality I have in my mind and your book explains it so well, in the differences between our right and left hemispheres. This and so, so much more. Your experience and understanding of the processes going on is such a gift to us all. Thank you, I am truly grateful and also truly sorry you had to endure such a traumatic experience to get to this understanding and truly amazing gift of insight. Thank you again and again.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Kindle Customer
- 07-03-2024
What an insight
Absolutely loved how Ms Taylor managed to deal and could comprehend the crux of life.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 05-10-2023
Powerful and Inspirational
I had a stroke at 56. knowing no one who had a stroke or even a brain injury, being guided only by the doctor telling me that, once at 6 months post-recovery that was about as good as it gets, it was encouraging to hear that recovery can be on-going. This book is inspirational, encouraging and so many ah-hah moments. Thank you. ❤💫
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- K. Crawley
- 05-04-2020
Could not finish it
Being a medic and having my own recent bleed due to an AVM, but in the cerebellum, I was extremely excited to hear about this book and the opportunity to listen to it. I found it very dry however, and painstakingly slow at various points. I was hoping it to be beneficial to my own recovery, but there was far too much detail directed towards the neuroanatomy side, rather than the human side of the story. Unless you are highly motivated and fascinated by neuroscience, I would think twice about reading this book sorry. I got about two thirds of the way through it, before I just couldn't do it to myself anymore. My apologies to the author as she obviously had great delight in recalling the scientific detail she presented in her book content. Whilst I admire her recovery, if she spent more time on the personal aspect and her struggles, I might have finished it, and many a patient could have drawn benefit from it too.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!