TED/Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight

How many scientists or doctors in history, are willing to perform surgery or experiment on themselves only to see the results of theories? How many have put themselves at risk just to find the cure of diseases and to understand the mysteries of human beings and the universes? There were many, for example there was Madame Curie who put herself in the environment of radiation just to prove her theory was right.

Either way, to make a great discovery about our human bodies, the discoverers have always paid a great price. Similar to the history of medical science, Jill, the lecturer today had also gone through such trauma.

She's a brain scientist, one who determines to spend her whole life solving the mysteries of human brains. It's been centuries and ages for us to crack the secrets of these "knowledge generators". Scientists were hoping to find a routine, or a pattern of the brain, but those had come to failures.

Few achievements were unlocked until Jill had this stroke herself, due to her long stay in labs and eating disorder, her weak body was prone to suffer from germ attacks and the defense broke down easily. The first thing that occurred to Jill when stroke struck her was that: I'm about to die. However, she changed how her reaction a second later into: why not use this as an opportunity to discover something more about the brain?

And that's where Jill got back on her feet.

Miraculously, Jill stood back to her feet after the procedures, and luckily to get a few hands on information of stroke and brains. People said that this was a success and great step into the future of medical science. However, no one should forget this kind of experimental sacrifice and bravery to exchange such useful statistics.