Jill Bolte Taylor

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist, whose research specialized in understanding how our brain creates our perception of reality. She is currently affiliated with both the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology, and the DePaul University Department of Education.

In 1996, Dr. Jill experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain that caused her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Her memoir, MY STROKE OF INSIGHT documenting her experience with stroke and eight-year recovery spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list. In 2008, she gave the first TED talk that ever went viral on the Internet, which now has well over 29 million views. She was chosen as one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World”, and appeared as the premiere guest on Oprah Winfrey’s “Soul Series” web-cast.

In 2021, WHOLE BRAIN LIVING: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life was published. Dr. Taylor sincerely believes that bringing this material to the world is the purpose of her life. We each have the capacity to realize that our life is the greatest gift of the universe, and simply because we have human life, we are mighty beyond our wildest imaginations. WHOLE BRAIN LIVING is a roadmap for how we can each evolve ourselves to live a more peaceful life on purpose - based on the underlying anatomy of our brain. We have so much more power over how we think and feel than we have ever been taught, and we each have the power to choose who and how we want to be in any moment, regardless of our external circumstances.