Most Replayed Moment: The 4 Personalities Living In Your Brain! How To Switch Between Them
6/19/202626 min
Dr Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author known for her work on the brain, consciousness and recovery after stroke. In this moment, she explains the four “personalities” inside every brain, where trauma, addiction and emotional reactivity live, and how understanding your left and right hemispheres could help you feel calmer, more focused and more in control.
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Steven Bartlett· Host0:34
[on-hold music] So you said there's four personalities in everybody's brain.
Jill Bolte Taylor· Guest0:42
Mm.
Steven Bartlett· Host0:42
What are those four personalities?
Jill Bolte Taylor· Guest0:44
As we're looking at the brain, just from an anatomical perspective, the way evolution happens for the mammalian brain is that there are creatures who have a spinal cord, and they have, uh-- and then-- and there are creatures like that, like worms, and then a little brain, a little medulla, will form at the top of that tissue, and then now that brain controls and streamlines information processing to the rest of the system. And then we add a pons, wh- What's that? It's just a structure of cells. So this is the medulla.
Steven Bartlett· Host1:18
Yeah.
Jill Bolte Taylor· Guest1:18
We would have spinal cord there, and this is the pons.
Steven Bartlett· Host1:21
Oh, it's like a- We call that the pons.
Jill Bolte Taylor· Guest1:22
It's a group of cells ...
Steven Bartlett· Host1:23
smaller brain.
Jill Bolte Taylor· Guest1:24
Yeah, it's a smaller brain. And in relationship to that pons is this cerebellum. And the cerebellum has