My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Book Review: Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very "insightful" book - a must read. Well written, highly understandable and uplifting. Book Review: admirable
Summary: 5 Stars
An amazing true story by an amazing woman. It also teaches us how to respond to "damaged" people.Book Review: MY STROKE OF INSIGHT
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS BOOK GOT ME TO "STEP TO THE RIGHT" AND DECIDE TO DONATE MY BRAIN TO THE HARVARD BRAIN BANK WHEN I DIE. IT ALSO GAVE ME KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW THE BRAIN WORKS AND HEALS ITSELF. IT IS A MUST READ FOR ANYONE. IT IS WRITTEN IN LAYMAN'S TERMS AND IS A SPIRITUAL BOOK AS WELL. THANK YOU, DR. TAYLOR, FOR WRITING IT. NAMASTE.Book Review: stirring story
Summary: 5 Stars
What a great story by a wonderful stroke survivor. Just another person who went on to prove medical experts wrong. I too am a survivor and I felt a lot of emotion reading many instances in Jill's story as some things were very similar. This book should be read by medical people.Book Review: A First-Person Account of Physiologically-Facilitated Ego-less-ness!
Summary: 5 Stars
"My Stroke of Insight" - at this point in time (2008) - requires no introduction or endorsement for that matter. It's a uniquely executed concept predicated on a too-common-of-a-story that had been beginning to be told. And finally has been...
What I would like to emphasize in this brief review is its unintended explanatory value for understanding meditational experiences, namely, that of ego-less-ness.
As such, "My Stroke of Insight" makes a nice reading companion to James Austin's (neuroscientist too) "Zen and the Brain." Whereas Austin provides a first-person narrative of his meditational experiences through a neuoroscientific lens, Dr. Taylor, of course, narrates the experience of a left-hemispheric stroke through the lens of her education. When read together, these two books offer a rather intriquing "triangulation" of the underlying neurophysiology of the meditational experiences.
"My Stroke of Insight" - as a book - will likely enjoy a long half-life in the market-place of books. My prediction is that it will enjoy an even longer life as supplemental reading to any student of neuroanatomy and/or meditation.
This is a triumphant anthem to brain plasticity!
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.
Author of "Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time" (New Harbinger, Nov. 2008).