Skip every slow song and you’ll never learn that the slow ones hit hardest at the right time.

Skipping anything that does not grab you immediately trains you out of a whole category of experience. Slow things work by accumulation, and accumulation needs time you are not willing to give while your thumb is already moving. So you never find out what those songs are for, and then you decide they are not for you. Preference and impatience are easy to confuse.

Sit through the next one instead of moving past it. The same thing applies outside music: the long conversation, the slow film, the book that takes fifty pages to start. Give one of them the full runtime this week.