“If you truly want to grow as a human being… if you really want to grow beyond your triggers… you have to reflect upon them using all the parts of your brain. If you never go back to actually reevaluate what’s going on and reflect, then you can never grow past it.”

In this episode: THE IDEALISTS. speaks with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, New York Times Bestselling author and Harvard trained neuroanatomist. Jill’s TED talk on the brain has received over 29 million views, and in 2008 Time Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

What we learned: Jill shows us how to get acquainted with the four characters in our brain so we can observe how they show up in our daily lives. By observing, and then balancing the whole brain, we gain a radical new road map to deep inner peace.