Harvard Brain Expert Reveals How Your Brain Is Deceiving You & How to Reclaim Control 🧠
Discover insights from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor on how your brain tricks you, and learn proven techniques to retrain your mind, heal trauma, manage emotions, and unlock your true potential.

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1.9M views • Nov 6, 2025

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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
02:18 Understanding Your Brain Will Help Improve Your Life
05:10 Can You Choose What Part of Your Brain to Use?
09:10 A Real Brain with a Spinal Cord
15:41 The Central Nervous System
18:51 The Event That Changed Your Brain Forever
21:51 When I Realised It Was Life or Death
25:15 Damage to the Left Side of My Brain: I Couldn't Speak or Remember Anything
26:37 The Importance of Having Fun and Being Present
32:11 Reaching for Help During the Stroke
37:35 What Did the Scan Show?
43:40 Ads
44:43 Where Do These 4 Personalities Exist in the Brain?
47:46 Where Addiction Lives
49:25 What Are the 4 Personality Types?
54:59 The Odds of a Single Human Being Born
01:04:58 How to Shift Between the 4 Characters
01:10:07 Ads
01:12:11 Emotions Only Last for 90 Seconds
01:21:45 How to Heal Trauma from the Past
01:25:44 Lifestyle Choices for a Healthy Brain
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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
02:18 Understanding Your Brain Will Help Improve Your Life
05:10 Can You Choose What Part of Your Brain to Use?
09:10 A Real Brain with a Spinal Cord
15:41 The Central Nervous System
18:51 The Event That Changed Your Brain Forever
21:51 When I Realised It Was Life or Death
25:15 Damage to the Left Side of My Brain: I Couldn't Speak or Remember Anything
26:37 The Importance of Having Fun and Being Present
32:11 Reaching for Help During the Stroke
37:35 What Did the Scan Show?
43:40 Ads
44:43 Where Do These 4 Personalities Exist in the Brain?
47:46 Where Addiction Lives
49:25 What Are the 4 Personality Types?
54:59 The Odds of a Single Human Being Born
01:04:58 How to Shift Between the 4 Characters
01:10:07 Ads
01:12:11 Emotions Only Last for 90 Seconds
01:21:45 How to Heal Trauma from the Past
01:25:44 Lifestyle Choices for a Healthy Brain
Follow Dr Jill:
Facebook - https://bit.ly/47VX7t7
X - https://bit.ly/3LKRaGM
Instagram - https://bit.ly/3Lm6R7m
You can purchase Dr Jill’s book ‘Whole Brain Living’, here: https://amzn.to/4hMIVWT
Independent Research: https://stevenbartlett.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DOAC-Jill-Taylor-Independent-Research-further-reading.pdf
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◼️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt
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