Jill Bolte Taylor, a brilliant professor, had a stroke when she was 37. Her first thought: "Oh my gosh, I'm having arnstroke." Her second thought: "Wow, this is so cool," since the Harvard-trained brain scientist had the opportunity to experience the crisis of her mind from within. A blood vessel had exploded in the left side of her brain, the side controlling time, language and logic. She was forced to rely on her brain's neglected right hemisphere, the creative lobe responsible for intuition and thinking in pictures-Einstein's favorite refuge.
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