Unleash your right brain | Harvard Professor Dr Jill Bolte Taylor of Neuroscience meets Robin Ince

This is part 3 of an exclusive How To Academy event.

Dr Jill Bolte Taylor has dedicated her life to understanding the science of the human brain. As a neuroanatomist at Harvard, she pioneered research into severe mental illness; then, aged 37, she experienced a massive stroke that left her without the ability to walk, talk, or recall any of her life. The story of her eight year journey to recovery became My Stroke of Insight, the first ever viral TED talk. In conversation with Robin Ince, she reveals lessons that all of us can employ to gain more power over our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, and our lives.

Dr Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist. In 1996 she experienced a severe haemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain causing 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 best-seller list and is still routinely the number-one book about stroke on Amazon. On YouTube, her videos with TED, Melodysheep, Joaquin Rueda, dotcom97, TEDxYouth, Law of Attraction Radio, Cokiya Noktakom, Ted-Ed, OWN, New Scientist, Jim Kwik, AçıkBeyin, Komixed, Guy Lawrence and Time Has Come Podcast have amassed millions of views.

Robin Ince is the co-presenter of Radio 4’s multiple award winning The Infinite Monkey Cage. He spent 2019 appearing across the world in the Universal tour with Brian Cox – travelling from LA to Oslo, Wellington to Aberdeen and ending up in Reykjavik after shows at the 02 and Wembley Arena. Robin co-wrote How to Build a Universe (part 1) with Brian Cox and his most recent book is I’m a Joke and So Are You, a book about why we become who we become and how we deal with it. He has spoken at TED and TEDx, has featured on BBC Radio 4 and Richard Herring’s podcasts on topics as far reaching as Creationism and Wonder, to Ricky Gervais and Chaos, and is the founder of The Cosmic Shambles Network.