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Oct. 25th, 2010 09:51 pmI was listening to this Radiolab episode called Words.
They were discussing what happened when neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke that nuked part of the left side of her brain, rendering her mind-chatter silent.
One big change for me over the past few years is that I can generally do this at will.
It's not perfect, and I can't do it *all* the time, but I can do it with great success most of the time, and I choose to spend a lot more time in that internally non-verbal state than I used to.
Not that that's necessarily obvious from talking to me.
It's changed me, though.
A lot.
They were discussing what happened when neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke that nuked part of the left side of her brain, rendering her mind-chatter silent.
One big change for me over the past few years is that I can generally do this at will.
It's not perfect, and I can't do it *all* the time, but I can do it with great success most of the time, and I choose to spend a lot more time in that internally non-verbal state than I used to.
Not that that's necessarily obvious from talking to me.
It's changed me, though.
A lot.
