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Taylor was chosen as one of TIME Magazine\'s 100 Most Influential People in the World and was the premiere guest on Oprah Winfrey\'s Soul Series web-cast..
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In 2008 she gave the first TED talk That ever went viral on the Internet, which now has well over 26 million views.
Taylor is a dynamic teacher and public speaker who loves educating all age groups, academic levels, as well as corporations about the beauty of our human Brain and its ability to recover from trauma.
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Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight, documenting her experience with stroke and eight-year recovery, spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and is still routinely the #1 book about stroke on Amazon.
In 1996 she experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her Brain causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life.
Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist.
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