My Stroke of Insight

Why Life Feels So Dull All The Time (and how to fix it) - Robert Greene - #1162

Modern Wisdom, 12 October 2026. The book comes up at 17 min 17 sec in.

Robert Greene describes a neuroscientist who suffered a hemorrhagic stroke that shut down her brain's filtering mechanisms one by one, producing a mystical sense of unity with her surroundings. She nearly died, spent eight years recovering cognitive function, and then felt depressed that the blissful experience was gone. Greene says she wrote My Stroke of Insight about finding her way back logically, as a scientist, to those sensations, using her story to illustrate how the brain constructs a limited version of reality.

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