The Dignity of Notice
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist from Harvard. She studies the brain. I had no idea what that meant either... Taylor suffered a stroke and in the midst of that stroke she was able to study her left brain and right brain functioning. When the left side of her brain started shutting down, she started losing the ability to comprehend numbers, analyze and verbalize. But here's where this gets freaky... As the right hemisphere of her brain began to grow stronger, Taylor discovered that her sense of individualism decreased and her relational connection to the world around her increased. She also began to experience a sense of joyous well-being, shared reality and peace. Taylor concluded that what's happened in our culture is that we've been trained through our industrial-era educational systems to approach the world with left-brain angles. And this one-sided approach can diminish our ability to care for others and feel con...