Review Of Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke Of Insight

Imagine the irony. A brain scientist that had a stroke. My Stroke of Insight is a biography through the eyes of Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. She was a Harvard medical student who had her own experience of what she studies. One day she woke up and realized she something wasn’t right. This book shows you what she was thinking, and how she got on her road to recovery. If it wasn’t for the help of friends, family, and doctors, she wouldn’t be where she is today. Throughout My Stroke of Insight, Taylor shows us that persistence will get you through lifes toughest moments. She shows us this with her intelligence, support, and drive. The first thing that helped her, is her intelligence. She has a Phd, she studied at harvard, and she is a neuroscientist. She was extremely smart. She used her knowledge of the brain to realize that something was wrong. She had many times when she thought about *sleeping the headache off*. If she would have …show more content…
Not only did other people never give up on her, but she never gave up on herself. No matter how hard the day was, she kept going. She never gave up on recovery. She persisted through life's toughest patch. She worked so hard to get to the place where she is today. She even started giving talks in large groups of people. Her goal was that no one would recognise that she had had a stroke, 7 years prior. I would say that it went pretty well for her. Also, she knows what she needs to learn/ focus on in order to recover. If she already knows what a grilled cheese is, and remembers what it tastes like, then she will have something else for lunch. She is always up for trying *new* things. Maybe it used to be her favorite food, or favorite color, but she is a new person who needs to figure herself out again. “I had to define my priorities for what I wanted to get back the most and not waste energy on other things.” (Taylor 120) She knows how she needed to recover, and she never gave up on