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My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor

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fridde82's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.5

Der erste Teil mit den Erfahrungsbericht über ihren Schlaganfall und ihre Genesung aus Sicht einer Neurowissenschaftlerin fand ich sehr interessant. Der zweite Teil über "Inner Peace" und "Compassion" war mir zu esoterisch

sarahreadsaverylot's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.25

bethanycecilia's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective

4.0

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novabird's review against another edition

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3.0

Bolte Taylor gives an extraordinary account of her stroke experience that borders on the surreal in her description of an almost indescribable event. At first she uses sheer willpower and begins her recovery process but then moves towards a new age belief system to account for her encounter with 'bliss' when her now more dominant right hand hemisphere of her brain takes the lead.

It is too bad that she did not continue to use analysis to uncover the reasoning for her new found bias for the right hemisphere. And maybe it is too much of the pragmatist in me that would have liked to see more bridging between the two hemispheres as she does claim that her corpus callosum is thicker than the everyday person's.

fbroom's review against another edition

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3.0

Jill Taylor is a brain scientist who had experienced a stroke in her left brain. The book is about her personal journey of experiencing a stroke and then recovering from it. Because the brain is so plastic Dr. Jill was able to fully recover in 8 years.

You will appreciate your brain while reading this book. I loved chapter 16 which talked about the difference between your left and right mind.

You can finish this book in 1-3 days, a very light read. The 3 stars because I honestly expected more from this book. She doesn't go into much details about the recovery process, she just keeps talking endlessly about how the brain is beautiful.

rottedrapunzel's review against another edition

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3.0

Interesting and insightful writing on the author's personal experience with stroke and their inspirational journey. The science writing in this book is not great imo with lots of the right/left brain science not holding up to today's understanding.