Jill Bolte Taylor
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Jill Bolte Taylor reads as The Visionary because her leadership begins with seeing differently and insisting others can too. A neuroanatomist and author, she has turned scientific understanding of the brain into a larger argument about human possibility, leading through imagination as much as expertise.
“How do we do it? Pay attention to what you're thinking. Pay attention to what you're thinking and you are not your thoughts. Your thoughts are created by a tiny, tiny little group of cells about the size of a peanut sitting in your left hemisphere and many of us let that little peanut rule our lives and you have to recognize that it's jus…”
“In the surgery, they drill three holes, take a blob of bone out of my head, sucked out a blood clot the size of a golf ball, put the bone back on, and said, go home and heal. Essentially, it's going to be two years before we know anything. And when I woke up later that day, there was a brightness. I felt bright again.”
“Exactly. And I believe 100% that anybody can. I think it's that attitude of gratitude. Do you know what it feels like inside of your body when you're feeling grateful? You're just feeling this celebration of life and, oh my gosh, how fortunate it is for me to be on the planet, to have this form.”
“A patient's energy instead of taking it away. Yeah, I learned that there are two kinds of people on the planet, people who bring you energy or people who take your energy away. And that was all I had at that point. So I had this precious little reservoir.”
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