Barbara Walters Discusses Book on Ellen
Barbara Walters was on the Ellen show this morning where she talked about her new autobiography, “Audition” which has just been named a “bestseller.”
Something she revealed that I didn’t know about was that she doesn’t know how to drive. Isn’t that incredible?! I would never have believed it.
She also talked about the lovers she had over the years (yet, they only take up about 5 pages in the whole book!) and how she is enjoying having people see a different side of her.
Watch part 2 after the jump!
Barbara Walter’s life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she’s written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly – I actually liked it even more. The memoir is “”My Stroke of Insight”" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke – where language and thinking occur – but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having”", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!