Top Brain Neuroscientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: Your Brain Is Lying to You! Here's How I Discovered the Truth! (Video)

In this 6 November 2025 published video, host Steven Bartlett talks with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained brain scientist who experienced a stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain and spent 8 years recovering. She is best known for her viral TED Talk “My Stroke of Insight” and is the bestselling author of books including Whole Brain Living.
She explains:
- What her near-death stroke taught her about consciousness, ego, and identity
- How to escape the brain loop keeping you stuck in stress and anxiety
- How technology and habits are silently shrinking your brain’s potential
- Why overthinking physically damages your brain, and how to reverse it fast
- What holding a REAL human brain taught her about life and death
https://youtu.be/hQaN5w3YwtM
00:00 Intro
02:18 Understanding Your Brain Will Help Improve Your Life
05:10 Can You Choose What Part of Your Brain to Use?
09:10 A Real Brain with a Spinal Cord
15:41 The Central Nervous System
18:51 The Event That Changed Your Brain Forever
21:51 When I Realised It Was Life or Death
25:15 Damage to the Left Side of My Brain: I Couldn’t Speak or Remember Anything
26:37 The Importance of Having Fun and Being Present
32:11 Reaching for Help During the Stroke
37:35 What Did the Scan Show?
43:40 Ads
44:43 Where Do These 4 Personalities Exist in the Brain?
47:46 Where Addiction Lives
49:25 What Are the 4 Personality Types?
54:59 The Odds of a Single Human Being Born
01:04:58 How to Shift Between the 4 Characters
01:10:07 Ads
01:12:11 Emotions Only Last for 90 Seconds
01:21:45 How to Heal Trauma from the Past
01:25:44 Lifestyle Choices for a Healthy Brain
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