Jill Bolte Taylor The Negotiable Self

Описание: Jill Bolte Taylor and the Negotiable Self

What if the self you experience as “you” is not fixed?

Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroscientist who observed her own massive stroke as it unfolded. In losing access to familiar patterns of language, judgment, time, and identity, she gained direct insight into how the brain constructs the self—and how negotiable that construction may be.

In her talk My Stroke of Insight, she describes not only neurological loss, but neurological choice: the possibility of consciously participating in who we become as the brain reorganizes.

I encountered Jill Bolte Taylor’s work through my own stroke. In the aftermath, when familiar ways of thinking were disrupted and others emerged unexpectedly, her framework was not theoretical—it was legible. Her work offered a way to understand neurological rupture without reducing it to damage, and to consider what kinds of choice might still be available inside it.

This video introduces Jill Bolte Taylor as a threshold figure and offers a high-level view of Whole Brain Living: the idea that the mind is composed of multiple functional characters, none of which are the self, and that awareness changes how those characters operate.

This is not a how-to.
It is an orientation.

A following video moves into practice—defining the four characters more clearly and exploring concrete mechanics such as the Brain Huddle, awareness in daily decision-making, and how this work is lived with over time.