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No.1 Brain Scientist: My Brain Shut Down & I Realised Everything I Believed Was Wrong!
06 Nov 2025
Harvard Neuroscientist DR. JILL BOLTE TAYLOR reveals How to Retrain Your Brain, Heal Trauma, Control Emotions, and Unlock the 4 Characters Running Your Mind Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is 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 (00:00) Intro (02:31) Understanding Your Brain Will Improve Your Life (05:23) Choose What Part of Your Brain to Use (09:23) A Real Brain with a Spinal Cord (15:54) The Central Nervous System (19:04) The Event That Changed Your Brain Forever (22:04) When I Realised It Was Life or Death (25:29) The Left Side of My Brain Was Damaged: I Couldn't Speak or Remember Anything (26:50) The Importance of Having Fun and Being Present (32:24) Reaching for Help During the Stroke (37:48) What Did the Scan Show? (43:53) Ads (44:56) Where Do These 4 Personalities Happen in the Brain? (47:59) Where Addiction Lives (49:39) What Are the 4 Personality Types? (55:12) The Odds of a Single Human Being Born (01:05:11) How to Shift Between the 4 Characters (01:10:20) Ads (01:12:24) Emotions Only Last for 90 Seconds (01:21:58) How to Heal Trauma from the Past (01:25:57) Lifestyle Choices for a Healthy Brain Follow Dr Jill: Facebook - https://bit.ly/47VX7t7 X - https://bit.ly/3LKRaGM Instagram - You can purchase Dr Jill’s book ‘Whole Brain Living’, here: https://amzn.to/4hMIVWT The Diary Of A CEO: ◼️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ◼️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ◼️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ◼️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ◼️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ◼️Follow Steven - Sponsors: Linkedin Ads - https://www.linkedin.com/DIARY 1Password - Find out more at https://1password.com/doac Function Health - https://functionhealth.com/DOAC with code DOAC100 for $100 towards your membership Join the waitlist for the limited edition Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards here: https://bit.ly/cardswaitlist.
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