Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hammer.

Today you learn about how to overcome four types of writer's block and why we wear pants.

We'll also answer a listener question about the probability of

finding extraterrestrial life on Jupiter's moon Europa with some help from a special

guest from Science News and Qs, also known as Snack, a Carnegie Science Center podcast.

But set us some curiosity.

According to Yale research, there are four types of writers block.

That's right, it's a concrete phenomenon.

But more importantly than that, it's also a treatable one, which is good news for Ashley and me.

I mean, I have advice on treating it. Just start a daily podcast and then you'll never be able to have writer's luck again.

We have some other pointers that maybe don't involve a daily podcast and please if anyone's

listening pass them on to George R. Martin,

because I really want that next book to come out.

So this research comes from a pair of psychologists, Jerome Singer,

and Michael Berrios.

They studied a group of professional writers across

different genres from poetry to screenwriting. The ones with writers block all

had demonstrated two symptoms for at least three months. The concrete

symptom was that they weren't writing,

and the holistic symptom was that they felt incapable of writing.

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