No matter how much time you have or don’t have, what you do or don’t do, where you are or with whom, you have to know this story. Don’t miss it, it will surely move you to tears as it did me.

From Nolte this is what you will find in Ted:

One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness … Amazed
to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability
to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke
recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury
stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left
side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right.
from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank.
country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the “Singin’ Scientist.”