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TED Walks! A Discussion & (Optional) Walking Group

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“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”  – Friedrich Nietzsche

Join us for a monthly TED talk viewing and discussion program! We’ll watch a TED talk for 20 minutes, discuss for 20 minutes indoors, and then, weather permitting, take a 30 minute *optional* walk to continue the discussion! Come for all or some of this program. If you just want to walk, please contact Courtney (508-358-2311) and then join us about 10:40.
In March, we’ll watch and discuss Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor‘s 2008 TED Talk: “My Stroke of Insight.”

One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness …

Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the “Singin’ Scientist.” As she says: “How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I’ve gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career.”

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist, who keynotes at conferences throughout the world. She is committed to educating the public about the beauty and resiliency of the human brain, neurological rehabilitation, and the value of brain donation for research. Having experienced a rare form of stroke and major brain surgery, she published a book for the lay public titled My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist?s Personal Journey. This award winning New York Times bestselling book is about how the human brain creates our perception of reality and includes tips about how Dr. Taylor rebuilt her own brain from the inside out. It is currently being published in 29 languages.