If you always skip to the end of the video, don’t be shocked you don’t get the story.

Conclusions without the middle are just facts, and facts do not stay. The middle is where the reasoning happens, where you see why the ending was the ending, and skipping it leaves you with something you can repeat and cannot use. That is why summaries feel like learning and rarely act like it.

Choose one thing this week you would normally take the short version of and sit through all of it. A whole article, a full explanation, a conversation you would usually redirect. Notice how much of the value was in the part you have been skipping.