Vox's Unexplainable Presents: The Yips

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Think about 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. You’re not sick. You’re not injured. But that one thing is impossible. It’s called the yips, and even the most talented people in the world experience it. What could cause them to lose their superpowers? And is there anything they can do to get them back? Today, a special bonus episode from our friends over at Unexplainable, a Vox Media podcast that explores scientific mysteries, unanswered questions, and all the things we learn by diving into the unknown. New episodes of Unexplainable are available every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	So we're doing something a little different here today. It's a bonus episode from
0:33.2	our friends at Unexpected. That's a podcast from Vox that is a kindred spirit I would say
0:37.7	because they explore scientific mysteries, they answer unanswered questions, they
0:41.5	get into all the things that you only learn when you dive into the unknown.
0:45.0	And this topic today is a personal fascination of mine,
0:48.0	because it's about what happens in the human brain to people who have mastered something that they've done
0:55.2	thousands, millions of times before in their lives and suddenly they lose the
0:58.9	ability to do it. You know it by its I guess colloquial name the yips and our friends at
1:06.0	unexplainable decided to dive in and explain it to you so that is this
1:11.1	episode we'll be back tomorrow with our own, but for now, enjoy.
1:16.0	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.
1:26.8	Maybe it's painting or writing or playing the piano.
1:30.6	Now imagine you wake up one day and you just can't do it anymore.
1:34.8	Everything else is fine. You're not sick, you're not injured, but that one thing is
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