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So we're doing something a little different here today.

It's a bonus episode from our friends at Unexplainable.

That's a podcast from Vox. That is a kindred spirit, I would say, because they explore scientific mysteries,

they answer unanswered questions. They get into all the things that you only learn when you

dive into the unknown. And this topic today is a personal fascination of mine because it's about

what happens in the human brain to people who have mastered something

that they've done thousands, millions of times before in their lives, and then suddenly

they lose the ability to do it. You know it by its, I guess, colloquial name, the Yips,

and our friends at Unexplanable decided to dive in and explain it to you. So that is this episode.

We'll be back tomorrow with our own, but for now, enjoy.

Think about something you love to do, the thing you're best at, the thing you've practiced

more than anything else in the world.

Maybe it's painting or writing or playing the piano. Now, imagine you wake up one day and you just

can't do it anymore. Everything else is fine. You're not sick. You're not injured. But that one

thing is impossible. You can barely even hold the paintbrush,

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