No.1 Brain Scientist: Your Brain Is Lying To You! Here's How I Discovered The Truth!

Steven Bartlett (0:00)

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Jill Bolte Taylor (2:07)

So this is a human brain with a spinal cord. Such a masterpiece. But what people don't know is that we have four different structured parts of our brain that automatically shape how we think, feel and behave. But what if it's not unconscious? What if we could pick and choose on how we want to be in any moment on purpose? Like we can manifest our own mental health.

Steven Bartlett (2:28)

And by the end of this conversation today, you're going to teach me how to do that?

Jill Bolte Taylor (2:31)

Absolutely. You're going to so get it.

SPEAKER_3 (2:34)

Harvard neuroscientist, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, has transformed how we understand the brain through her research and own traumatic experience. She's teaching the world how to unlock every part of their brain to regain control of their thoughts, emotions and behavior.

Jill Bolte Taylor (2:49)

We have a problem. We are skewed as a society to the two parts of the left brain, which focuses on me, the individual. How do I fit myself into a society? And trauma is living in there, as is cravings and addiction. And we need this. It protects us. We get in trouble when this is the only portion of our brain that we value. Because look at the world we currently live in.

Steven Bartlett (3:09)

So is there a strategy for making sure that you don't act upon it?

Jill Bolte Taylor (3:12)

Well, so many people are trying to get rid of their emotional reactivity. But the way to heal it is not to get rid of it. I mean, we're liars for this. Why do I want to just put myself in a little box and say, I don't want to have pain. I don't want to be mad. I want to be a robot. I don't want to be a robot. I want to be a whole human with a whole brain. Like, this is life.

And it took me losing the left side of my brain for eight years to realize just how precious this thing is.

Steven Bartlett (3:40)

So how do I control and protect my brain at all costs?