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TED Week: Jill Bolte Taylor and Accessing the Creative Impulse

July 13th, 2009 by Aaron Shields

Every day this week, I’m going to draw attention to a different video from TED that is related to branding or innovation. If you’ve never experienced the wealth of insights that TED offers, I urge you to check it out.

To kick things off, I’m starting with the most popular TED video of all time: Jill Bolte Taylor’s “My stroke of insight.”

Taylor’s video takes the viewer on a journey of what it was like for a neuroanatomist to experience her own stroke.

The valuable message Jill Bolte Taylor shares for all of us involved in creative work is that we have the choice to access the parts of our minds that we tend to ignore.

I hope you enjoy, and find inspiration in her talk.

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  • Jill Bolte’s TED talk definitely earned it’s place as the most popular talk!

  • Me 3. Amazing! She is not only a genius but a now a guru too. She directly experienced the Right side of her brain and lived there. Amazing!

  • I agree. I always forget how great this video is until I watch it again.

  • I had seen Dr. Taylor’s video before, but I can never see it enough. It’s life-altering and the most amazing performance I’ve ever seen – in an authentic way. TED brings me the best educational and entertainment ideas, videos, stories, of any media source I know about.
    thanks for sharing